Michael Gathy

Michael Gathy is a professional poker player from Belgium with many successes in live and online poker, including World Series of Poker bracelets at the 2012, 2013, 2016 and 2020 series. He is one of two players, alongside Dominik Nitsche, to have won four No Limit Hold'em bracelets in the decade 2011 to 2020, and he was the first person to win a WSOP turbo event. Online he has won multiple SCOOP and WCOOP events on PokerStars. He had been a medical student before becoming a professional, learned to play poker online from a website that gave him 50 dollars to begin with, and quit medical school once he began making a lot of money in mixed cash games online. In 2011 he won the 175,000 euro first prize in the PokerStars Belgian Poker Series Grand Final in Namur, and in 2012 he won Event 21, a 1,000 dollar No Limit Hold'em event at the WSOP, defeating a final table that included John Esposito and Eric Baldwin.