Player Snapshot
- Full name: András Németh
- Nationality: Hungarian
- Date of birth: Not publicly disclosed (estimated late 30s as of 2026)
- Hometown / current base: Budapest, Hungary
- Live tournament earnings: $10,175,348 — Hendon Mob, as of 10 April 2026
- Live cashes: 154
- Best live cash: $1,751,000 (2nd place, 2025 WSOP Paradise $100,000 Triton PLO Main Event)
- All-time live money list rank: 184th (Hendon Mob, April 2026)
- WSOP bracelets: 0
- WPT titles: None on the live main tour; one online WPT World Online Series title (2020)
- EPT titles: Five EPT trophies confirmed by PokerNews after his December 2024 Mystery Bounty win, with a sixth EPT Prague €25,000 High Roller added days later (PokerGuru)
- Triton Poker titles: 1 (2022 Triton Cyprus $50,000 6-Max NLHE)
- Other notable titles: 2025 PLO Grand Slam Malta €10,300 Championship; multiple SCOOP and WCOOP titles on PokerStars
- Online screen names: “probirs” (PokerStars, full career); “PokerBluff1” (GGNetwork)
- Playing style: Hyper-aggressive, technical, GTO-influenced; PLO specialist in recent years
- Sponsors / team: No current public ambassadorship; longtime PokerStars regular under his “probirs” account
Who is Andras Nemeth?
If the all-time online tournament money list is to be believed — and Andras Nemeth himself, on the record, says it shouldn’t be — then for a few days in late 2019, the most successful tournament player in poker history was a Hungarian who refused to talk to anyone about it. According to VIP-Grinders, Nemeth’s PocketFives page briefly showed $17.7 million in online MTT winnings, edging past compatriot Péter “Belabácsi” Traply for the global lead. Days later, the page was gone. Nemeth had asked PocketFives to take it down. He has never publicly explained why.
That instinct — to be the best in the room without insisting anyone notice — is the single thread running through his career. Nemeth, who plays online as “probirs,” has won SCOOP and WCOOP titles, EPT high rollers, a Triton trophy, and a Diamond Poker Series PLO championship. He has more than $10 million in live earnings on the Hendon Mob and an estimated $15 million-plus in online winnings on top of that. He has done all of it while giving roughly one English-language interview a year and almost never appearing on a livestreamed cash game.
What separates him from peers is not flair or persona; it is technical depth in two disciplines — No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha — combined with the uncommonly grounded mindset of someone who treats poker as a craft. In a 2024 interview with Spadepoker, Nemeth said his current goal is simply consistency, and that recognition from other top players, not money lists, is the only ranking he respects.
Early Life and Path to Poker
There is very little in the public record about Nemeth before poker, and that is largely his own doing. SoMuchPoker, in a deep-dive profile updated in early 2026, notes that the only widely available pre-fame interview is a brief Hungarian-language clip from 2009 at the Unibet Open in Prague, and a longer 2009 radio interview now lost. Nemeth has confirmed in his Spadepoker conversation that he comes from “an ordinary” family background and considers himself a private person.
What is verified is the timeline of his arrival on the international scene. His first recorded live tournament cash, on the Hendon Mob, was a victory: he won the €1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2009 Austrian Classics for €49,600 in October of that year. By 2010 he was grinding the high-stakes online MTT circuit on now-defunct sites Absolute Poker, UltimateBet, and Full Tilt, plus PokerStars, where he has used the screen name “probirs” since the beginning. By early 2012 he had broken into the top tier of PocketFives’ worldwide rankings.
The standard narrative for elite online players raised in the late-2000s boom — Hungarian high schoolers turned home-game regulars turned online grinders turned millionaires — fits the broad outline, but the specifics belong to Nemeth alone, and he has chosen not to share them.
Career Timeline and Breakthrough
Nemeth’s first significant non-Hungarian live cash came in 2010 with a fourth-place finish at the €6,200 Master Classics of Poker event in Amsterdam for €135,432. From there he settled into a long pattern of online dominance and selective live appearances, mostly across mid-buy-in EPT side events and a handful of European stops.
The breakout year was 2018, and it came in two waves. In May, he topped a 100-entry, $25,000 SCOOP High Roller field at PokerStars for $576,087, his largest tournament cash to date and his third career SCOOP title, defeating a final table that included Viktor “Isildur1” Blom and Mike “SirWatts” Watson. Four months later, at EPT Barcelona, he turned that online momentum into a live trophy. According to PokerNews, Nemeth topped 95 entries in the €25,000 Single-Day High Roller, defeating Wai Leong Chan heads-up after one of the more memorable hands of the EPT season — getting it in with A-2 offsuit against pocket aces and rivering a wheel for €605,600.
He closed 2018 with a fifth-place finish in the partypoker Caribbean Poker Party $25,500 NLHE event for $550,000 and a runner-up finish to Matthias Eibinger in the EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller for €451,350 — verified by PokerNews. That single year transformed his Hendon Mob page from a respectable European résumé into a serious one.
The online story peaked in 2019 with the brief PocketFives milestone and then went underground. The live story took a step forward at EPT Prague in March 2022, where Nemeth won not one but two €25,000 High Roller titles within five days of the same festival — the first for €211,760, the second for €181,520 after a famously chatty heads-up battle against Martin Kabrhel, who, per PokerNews’s report, impersonated Phil Hellmuth and sang at the table for much of the match. Nemeth weathered it and won.
Two weeks later he flew to Northern Cyprus for the first Triton Poker Special Edition since the COVID shutdown. There, in April 2022, he became the first Hungarian ever to win a Triton title. He topped a $50,000 6-Max NLHE field of 82 entries that included Phil Ivey, Jason Koon, Stephen Chidwick, and Mikita Badziakouski, defeating his close friend and countryman Laszlo Bujtas heads-up for $1,082,000 — his first seven-figure live score. “It was surreal to play for the first time and then get heads-up against one of my best friends in poker,” Nemeth told Triton Poker afterwards.
Since then he has not stopped. He won his fifth EPT title at Prague in December 2024 in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty (PokerNews), then his sixth — the €25,000 High Roller, again in Prague — within the same festival. In October 2025 he beat 182 entries at the Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam Malta €10,300 Championship, infamously winning seven full-house showdowns en route to the €407,854 first prize. And in December 2025, at WSOP Paradise, he came within seven heads-up hands of his first WSOP bracelet, finishing runner-up to Sam Soverel in the $100,000 Triton PLO Main Event for $1,751,000 — a career best.
His latest recorded cash, per the Hendon Mob, was $15,403 on 10 April 2026.
Key Titles and Biggest Results
The following are Nemeth’s most significant live results, verified against PokerNews, the Hendon Mob, Triton Poker, CardPlayer, and PokerGuru:
| Event | Year | Finish | Prize | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 WSOP Paradise $100,000 Triton PLO Main Event | 2025 | 2nd | $1,751,000 | Lost heads-up to Sam Soverel; career-best score |
| 2022 Triton Cyprus $50,000 6-Max NLHE | 2022 | 1st | $1,082,000 | First Hungarian Triton title; beat Laszlo Bujtas HU |
| 2018 EPT Barcelona €25,000 Single-Day High Roller | 2018 | 1st | €605,600 (~$707,000) | First live EPT title; rivered wheel vs aces HU |
| 2018 partypoker Caribbean Poker Party $25,500 NLHE | 2018 | 5th | $550,000 | First major Bahamas score |
| 2018 EPT Prague €50,000 Super High Roller | 2018 | 2nd | €451,350 | Lost HU to Matthias Eibinger |
| 2025 PLO Grand Slam Malta €10,300 Championship | 2025 | 1st | €407,854 (~$474,000) | Diamond Poker Series PLO Championship |
| 2022 EPT Prague €25,000 Single-Day High Roller II | 2022 | 1st | €211,760 (~$233,000) | Same festival as one below |
| 2024 EPT Prague €25,000 High Roller | 2024 | 1st | €181,520 (~$200,000) | Beat Martin Kabrhel after long HU |
| 2024 EPT Prague €10,200 Mystery Bounty | 2024 | 1st | €132,980 (~$141,000) | His fifth EPT title (PokerNews) |
| 2018 SCOOP-14-H $25,000 NLHE 8-Max High Roller | 2018 | 1st | $576,087 | Online — third career SCOOP title |
What does this collection tell you about the player? It tells you Nemeth is, almost without exception, a high-buy-in tournament specialist. Every one of his marquee live results comes from a buy-in of $10,000 or more, most from buy-ins of $25,000-$100,000. He is not a recreational-field crusher who occasionally goes deep in a Main Event; he is a regular at the highest field-strength tables in the game. Of his roughly ten recorded major live tournament wins, more than half are EPT high rollers, all featuring fields of professional and semi-professional players. He has never made a deep run at a marquee Main Event — no WSOP, EPT, or WPT Main Event final tables — and that is by design rather than failure. The buy-in level he plays is also the buy-in level at which he has chosen to compete.
Playing Style and Strategic Identity
Live high-stakes regulars who have sat with Nemeth tend to describe him in similar terms: relentless, technically precise, and unbothered. He arrives at a final table without theatre, plays an aggressive but never reckless preflop game, and is willing to make decisions that look unusual to the player on his right because they are sound versus the population — not because they are flashy.
His approach is GTO-rooted, sharpened during the years he spent grinding nosebleed online MTTs and high-stakes cash on PokerStars. SoMuchPoker’s hand-tracking data shows 53,497 hands on his “probirs” account at PokerStars, primarily $50/$100 No-Limit Hold’em, with a positive winrate of $249,785 — a relatively small published cash sample for someone of his MTT pedigree, suggesting he plays cash selectively and at higher private stakes that are not publicly databased.
Two specific traits stand out to anyone who has watched his recent deep runs. The first is his comfort with hero-call spots in three- and four-handed play. At EPT Prague in December 2024, three-handed in the €10,200 Mystery Bounty, he overtook the chip lead by snapping off a queen-high bluff from Michail Manolakis with ace-high — the kind of read that requires both confidence and deep frequency work, and the kind of move that defines his image at a final table. PokerNews highlighted the call as the turning point of the tournament.
The second is his technical fluency in Pot-Limit Omaha, which has become his signature game in the last two years. The PLO Grand Slam Malta run in October 2025 was, by any reasonable standard, a clinic. According to PokerNews’s coverage, he showed down a full house seven separate times across the final day, including the championship-clinching deuces-full-of-kings to break Aku Joentausta in heads-up. His decision to call a six-million-chip river all-in for his tournament life with kings full was the kind of cold-blooded clarity that distinguishes elite PLO players from very good ones.
The most revealing window into his self-image, though, comes from his Spadepoker interview in 2024. Asked whether he wanted to win a WSOP bracelet, Nemeth said it would be nice but would not make him a better player. The thing that would make him a better player — and the thing he genuinely cares about, in his own words — is whether his results stay consistent with the high bar he set in his peak years. He went on to say, with disarming honesty, that he did not believe he had been among the best players in the most recent years and that his goal was to fight his way back to that level.
That is not the way most $10 million live earners talk about themselves in public. It is, however, the way someone who treats poker as a craft talks about it.
Online Poker and Cash Games
For most of his career, online poker has been Nemeth’s primary income source and primary identity. He has used the screen name “probirs” on PokerStars from his earliest days on the site and has won three SCOOP titles (2015, 2017, 2018, plus a fourth in 2024 per PokerNews) and at least three WCOOP titles (the most recent being the 2021 WCOOP-92-H 10,300 PLO Main Event for $308,556, his third). Under his alternate “PokerBluff1” account on GGNetwork, he won two High Roller MILLION events on the same day in December 2020 for a combined 306,441(perSoMuchPoker),andinAugust2021hetookdowntheGGPokerSuperMILLION for $325,957, defeating Russian pro Artur Martirosyan heads-up.
The PocketFives episode is the most-discussed chapter of his online career. As reported by VIP-Grinders in April 2020, Nemeth’s career online MTT earnings briefly reached $17.7 million in October 2019, putting him atop the all-time list and ahead of Péter “Belabácsi” Traply. Days later, his profile was hidden and Traply was again listed at the top. VIP-Grinders speculated, without evidence, that the move may have been linked to Hungary’s ambiguous online-poker regulatory environment — the state-owned monopoly Szerencsejáték does not offer online poker, leaving foreign sites accessible but operating in a legally uncertain space. Nemeth has not addressed the deletion publicly.
Notably, Nemeth has almost no high-stakes cash game livestream presence. He has not appeared on Hustler Casino Live, Live at the Bike, or PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker. SoMuchPoker’s profile observes plainly that “Nemeth hasn’t appeared on any TV show or online live stream where he played live cash publicly.” For a player of his stature and earnings, this is unusual; most peers monetise their reputations on streamed cash. Nemeth, instead, plays where the games are softest and the cameras are off.
Beyond the Felt
Nemeth has no public training site, coaching brand, content channel, or book, and he holds no current sponsorship visible on the major poker media outlets. He plays under his “probirs” account on PokerStars but is not a member of Team PokerStars Pro. He is not a Triton ambassador. He has no Twitch stream and no public YouTube presence. In an industry where high earnings almost always translate into a content business, he is a striking outlier.
His most consistent media footprint is the occasional vertical-poker interview. The Spadepoker conversation during the 2024 WSOP Europe is among the longest English-language interviews he has given, and even there he declined to discuss his family or personal life beyond confirming that he has one. He told the interviewer, in summary, that poker should be fun before it is profitable, and that money becomes limiting as a sole motivation.
The closest he comes to a poker community presence is his long-running friendship with fellow Hungarian high-stakes pro Laszlo Bujtas. The two have repeatedly clashed at final tables, most notably the 2022 Triton Cyprus $50,000 6-Max heads-up, and have been described in multiple PokerNews and VIP-Grinders pieces as part of the same elite Hungarian poker circle that has made the country a quietly dominant force on the international high roller scene.
Current Status and What to Watch
Heading into the second quarter of 2026, Nemeth is in the middle of one of the strongest stretches of his career. The PLO Grand Slam Malta championship in October 2025 (~$474,000), the Triton PLO Main Event runner-up at WSOP Paradise in December 2025 ($1,751,000), and a fifth-place finish in the EPT Paris €25,000 PLO High Roller in early 2026 (~$96,878, per SoMuchPoker) suggest he has fully reinvented himself as a Pot-Limit Omaha specialist while remaining a credible threat in any No-Limit Hold’em high roller field. His Hendon Mob page shows him crossing the $10 million live earnings milestone with the Paradise score, and his most recent recorded cash on the database is from 10 April 2026.
The obvious unfinished business is the WSOP bracelet. He came as close as a player can come without winning one — leading the heads-up phase of a Triton-sanctioned bracelet event before running pocket jacks into pocket kings on the seventh hand of the third day. With the WSOP, WSOP Europe, and WSOP Paradise all running in the next 12 months, and Nemeth playing the deepest schedule of his career, the bracket-shaped gap on his résumé is the single most likely thing to be filled before the end of 2026. Watch the PLO bracelets in particular; that is the discipline in which he is currently most likely to win.
FAQ
According to The Hendon Mob, Andras Nemeth has $10,175,348 in live tournament earnings as of 10 April 2026, ranking him 184th on the all-time live money list. His total online earnings, last publicly visible on PocketFives in October 2019 at $17.7 million, are estimated to exceed that figure today, putting his combined verified poker winnings comfortably above $25 million.
Andras Nemeth has zero WSOP bracelets as of May 2026. He came closest in December 2025, finishing runner-up to Sam Soverel in the $100,000 Triton PLO Main Event at WSOP Paradise for a career-best $1,751,000. The bracelet remains the most conspicuous gap on a résumé that otherwise includes EPT, Triton, SCOOP, WCOOP, and Diamond Poker Series titles.
Nemeth plays a hyper-aggressive, technically rigorous game rooted in GTO frameworks developed during his peak online years. He is known for unconventional bet sizings, willingness to make thin value bets, and confidence in hero-call spots — most visibly the ace-high bluff catch that propelled him to his fifth EPT title at Prague in 2024. In recent years he has become one of the most respected Pot-Limit Omaha tournament players in the world.
Andras Nemeth is from Hungary, born and raised in Budapest, where he is still based. He plays under the screen name “probirs” online — a moniker he has used since first appearing on the high-stakes online tournament scene around 2009-2010 on sites including PokerStars, Full Tilt, UltimateBet, and Absolute Poker.
Yes. Nemeth is highly active on the live circuit and online as of early 2026, with his most recent Hendon Mob cash dated 10 April 2026 and a fifth-place finish in the 2026 EPT Paris €25,000 PLO High Roller. His 2025–2026 stretch — including the PLO Grand Slam Malta Championship, the Triton PLO Main Event runner-up, and EPT Paris — is among the strongest of his career.
Nemeth has not publicly explained the decision. According to VIP-Grinders, he reached the top of the all-time online MTT money list at $17.7 million in October 2019, then asked PocketFives to hide his profile within days. The site speculated, without confirmation, that the move may have been related to Hungary’s ambiguous regulatory environment for online poker. Nemeth has remained protective of his privacy in subsequent interviews.
Yes. Nemeth won the 2022 Triton Poker Cyprus Special Edition $50,000 6-Max No-Limit Hold’em event for $1,082,000, becoming the first Hungarian ever to win a Triton title. He defeated countryman Laszlo Bujtas heads-up in a final table that included Phil Ivey, Jason Koon, and Stephen Chidwick.