Former Team PokerStars Pro, November Nine qualifier, and toy executive Pierre Neuville has died at the age of 83.
Neuville's major poker milestone was his deep run in the WSOP Main Event in 2015, where he finished seventh for $1.2 million, but he made his name on the European Poker Tour, where he finished second in two different EPT Main Events in 2012 and 2016.
In fact, Neuville had already received the Lifetime Achievement honor from the Global Poker Awards in 2015, just months prior to his famous Main Event run.
November Niner's lifetime of achievements
Neuville was born in Montigny-le-Tilleul, Belgium, in 1943, and he picked up poker at university. His board game design, featuring famous Belgian cyclist Eddy Merckx, jump-started his professional life with a toy company that was eventually sold to Hasbro, an American toy firm where he worked as a Vice President for another decade.
Neuville would work in consulting for a number of years while his passion for poker grew, and he cashed in his first official poker tournament in 2008 at the age of 64.
Pierre Neuville's top 10 poker cashes
- 2015 WSOP Main Event - 7th - $1,203,293
- 2014 WSOP $5K Six-Max - 2nd - $384,041
- 2009 EPT Vilamoura Main Event - 2nd - $383,962
- 2012 EPT Copenhagen Main Event - 2nd - $282,843
- 2016 EPT Malta High Roller - 2nd - $249,043
- 2016 WSOP $1,500 Six-Max - 2nd - $213,837
- 2009 EPT Sanremo Main Event - 9th - $103,199
- 2012 Venetian $2,200 Big Bounty - 1st - $79,080
- 2010 EPT London - 8th - $71,829
- 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona - 6th - $65,814
'The Serial Qualifier' won his seat for the EPT Main Event in online qualifiers 23 times, and he built up just over $5 million in career earnings since his first cash at the Belgian Poker Championship in 2007. His WSOP Main Event final table finish was his best of 330 total cashes.
Neuville's last WSOP appearance was in 2024, where he cashed in three bracelet events. He shared his late-stage prostate cancer diagnosis in 2025, when he made his last poker appearance at the PokerStars Open event in Namur.
