GirafGanger7, real name Bert Stevens, is a Belgian online poker streamer and super-crusher. The obvious highlight of Bert Stevens’ poker career is when he took down the biggest World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Main Event ever on GGPoker in 2023.
GirafGanger7, well-known for his extremely outlandish behavior and uniquely dirty streaming setup, outlasted 6,023 runners to take down a then-online world record score of $2,783,433. Amazingly, GirafGanger7 accomplished the feat streaming the entire three days of the event on his popular Twitch stream.
Is GirafGanger7 Good at Poker?
Clearly, if you bink the WSOP Online Main Event, you’ve got to be good at poker. According to his current Sharkscope results, just his GGPoker and PokerStars accounts show GirafGanger7’s winnings of $3.5 million in profit across over 60,000 tournaments played. His rating is 99 on both sites, virtually the highest-achievable rating possible.
Many of his online results are blocked, but PokerNews has revealed that his profits are far into the eight-figure territory. GirafGanger7 was once the number one online poker player in the world, according to the PocketFives rankings.
As far as live poker tournaments go, he doesn’t play that awful much, with Bert Stevens’ career live tournament earnings sitting at about $100,000 over just eight recorded live tournament cashes.
How Much is GirafGanger7 Worth?
While Bert Stevens’ poker prowess is completely unquestioned, his net worth is very much in doubt. Like most poker players, especially those who play online, we are virtually in the dark over what his total assets amount up to.
What we do know is that GirafGanger7’s winnings are over eight figures and that he has a Twitch stream of nearly 50,000 followers – which undoubtedly brings in a healthy monthly income. Bert Stevens has also been a poker coach for website Pocarr.
Bert Stevens Poker Style
While he is one of the most outspoken trash talkers in poker streaming, Girafganger7’s winnings have come to him for a very good reason as he’s one of the top poker coaches in the business.
He makes many of the moves that many poker players miss, like correctly calling KQo from early position off a 30 big blind stack, when a common poker rule of thumb is to fold that hand from early position against any 3-bet. In this case, it’s a 0 EV call but still important to make in the long-run.
Girafganger7 displays a ton of cleverness in his decision-making, picking up on how his opponents perceive him and getting maximum value from his hands. In this example from the GGMasters $1K High Roller, it’s crystal-clear why Girafganger7 seemingly always has a mountain of chips, even against the best players in the world.
The lojack opens to 2.2 bigs off a 20 big blind stack. While many would raise the K♣️K♥️ in the hijack with players still to act, Stevens put in the call. The cutoff and big blind also called and they went four ways to the flop.
The flop came out K♠️Q♠️5♣️, and absolute dream as Stevens had a magically hidden top set. He opted to check this hand to get others to put in money and the cutoff did so, putting in a bet of 2.5 bigs into the 10.1 big blind pot.
While many players would be content with just calling with the nuts, Stevens, knowing that his range should be pretty capped, raised to 9.3 bigs. His opponent sent a “haha” emoji before making the call.
While he barreled a perfect 3♦️ turn, the K♦️ river gave him the most unlikely quads. Population may just go crazy and jam, hoping to run into a full house or a non-believer, but Stevens put in the check. While his opponent ended up checking back an A♠️8♠️ missed flush draw, it’s pretty clear he won the maximum here and could’ve received a full double-up against a less-disciplined player.
He also makes spectacular decisions that few could muster up the willpower for. Unfortunately, he can succumb to some pretty severe tilt and go way off the rails when things don’t go his way. However, the majority of the time, he doesn’t let his emotions lead to poor play.
Conclusion
While it’s obvious that Bert Stevens has crushed online poker sites for a long time, the details of his personal life are very much a mystery. After winning the WSOP Online Main Event, he famously yelled: “When it comes to the conversation about who is the greatest online MTT player of all time, it doesn’t matter who started the conversation.”
He’s very much an outspoken character who streams from his “cave”, which is little more than a very dingy attic, complete with a shredded gamer chair. It’s not unusual for him to be surrounded by literal garbage and half-empty soda bottles – only adding to his mystique. He lives on a farm with dogs, cats, sheep, goats, and other rescued animals.
All in all, there can only be one Bert Stevens.
