Chaar-Lee discovered poker over 20 years ago, starting with fixed-limit games before embracing the rise of No-Limit Hold’em across cash games, STTs, and MTTs. In the early days, he and his circle sometimes played more than 40 different formats in a single night. He organized the first poker camp in his region and has contributed poker technology to several televised shows. Today, he supports the SOMUCHPOKER team from the tech side, blending two decades of poker passion with technical expertise.

Updated: 2024.12.01

Hailing from Hamburg, Germany, player Piet Pape has over USD 330,000 in live cash winnings, mostly earned in Asia. Among Pape’s most notable wins is his first-place finish in the $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em World Poker Tour (WPT) Cambodia Super High Roller Event in November 2019, where he secured his biggest cash-out yet of USD 83,006.

WPT Cambodia: Big payday for Piet Pape and Choon Tong Siow; Douglas Whitehead overcomes the Freezeout

Pape proceeded to secure another first-place win just a few months later in the Deepstack KO event at Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Taipei in February 2020. Pape’s poker career also spans international tournaments, including European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona in August 2023, where he won €12,500 (USD 13,622) in the Freezeout event, and WPT Prime Cambodia, where he placed 6th in the Mystery Bounty, earning a USD 6,810 prize.

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