Orpen Kisacikoglu

Turkish businessman and poker player Orpen Kisacikoglu was born on February 8th, 1981. He is the most successful poker player from Turkey, earning more than $15 million playing poker in live tournaments. He won a Triton Poker Series event in 2019 and 2023, as well as a bracelet at the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe Diamond High Roller.

Orpen Kisacikoglu: Early Life

Orpen Kisacikoglu originally from Turkey and now resides in England. He is the former CEO of Come On Group, a multilingual, multi-product, and multi-branded online gambling portal established in June 2011 to provide support services for risk management.

He is currently ranked first in Turkey in terms of most earnings. And has become increasingly well-known in recent years among high rollers. After claiming his first World Series of Poker ring in April 2019, Kisacikoglu continues to deliver impressive results. Including a victory at the €100,000 No-Limit Hold’em – 2022 Triton Series Madrid tournament, which earned him a career-high $2,117,316 win.

Orpen Kisacikoglu: Poker Career highlights

• Orpen uses the username OrpTheTurk when playing poker online on PokerStars.
• His first live tournament cash came in April 2011 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Berlin.
• He plays almost exclusively in high-roller events, which are tournaments with buy-ins of at least 10,000 US dollars.
• Placed fourth in EPT Malta Oct 2016, winning €80,000.
• finished 5th in the Super High Roller division of the PokerStars Championship (PSC) in Panama City in mid-March 2017. Earning nearly $150,000.
• Won €340,000 in prize money by reaching the final table of the High Roller and Super High Roller events at PSC Prague in December 2017. 
• finished second place for €172,000  in the 2018 Super High Roller Austria Poker Tour in Seefeld. Losing Heads up to Christopher Frank.
• Orpen won more than €360,000 in prize money at the end of August 2018. After cashing in two EPT events in Barcelona. 
• Made it to the final table of the partypoker Millions Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham. At the beginning of October 2018, finishing 3rd for a prize of £ 200,000. 
• Earned about €320,000 for placing 3rd at the WSOP Europe Short Deck High Roller in Rozvadov in October 2019. 
• Placed 2nd in a $50,000 Party-Poker Millions World Bahamas tournament that paid out $550,000 November 2019.
• Finished in 2nd place at the EPT Super High Roller in Prague in March 2022, earning more than 500,000 euros in cash prizes.
• Secured second place earning over 2 million euros, marking his highest prize money, during the Triton Poker Series Main Event in Madrid, May 2022. This was made possible by a deal with Henrik Hecklen.
• won the Diamond High Roller at the World Series of Poker Europe in mid-November 2022, taking home a bracelet and a check for about €750,000, breaking the US$10 million barrier for total tournament prize money. 
• earned more than $1.7 million by winning a Triton Series match in Hoi An at the beginning of March 2023.