Nitsche began playing poker online in 2006, amassing winnings exceeding $3 million. The next year he made the final table of the same tournament before finishing in 4th place. In 2014 Nitsche added two WSOP bracelets.
He also made the final table of the WSOP Europe Main Event in 2013, finishing in 3rd place.
As of 2014, his live tournament winnings exceed $3,500,000. His 19 WSOP cashes equal $1,995,000 of those earnings.
In 2009, playing in his first live poker tournament, he won a Latin American Poker Tour event in March del Plata, Argentina, earning $381,000. In 2012 he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet, outlasting a field of 4,620 in a $1,000 Number Limit Hold"em tournament and earning $654,000. Later that same year he won a World Poker Tour title in South Africa. First, he won the WSOP National Championship for $352,000. He then won another $1,000 NLHE tournament, becoming at age 23 the youngest player to win 3 bracelets (Philosophy Ivey was 26 when he won his third).
