Education
He finished 10th in the 2004 WSOP main event and as of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed United States$3,700,000. Lüske finished in 14th place in the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and 10th place in the 2004 WSOP main event.
Career
Lüske encourages the development of younger players and has mentored poker players Noah Boeken, David Williams and Kirill Gerasimov. Lüske learned to play poker in market cafés and quit his job as a salesman in 2003 to become a professional poker player. He is known for wearing suits, upside-down sunglasses and singing during poker tournaments and poker games.
Lüske appeared twice on the Late Night Poker show and lost to Barny Boatman and John Duthie.
Luske has numerous money finishes at the WSOP, including a 2nd place finish to Joe Awada in the 2004 $5,000 Seven-card stud tournament, for which he earned $120,800. The following year Lüske himself made the EPT championship grand final, finishing 7th.
In early 2007, Lüske produced a television show called Veronica Poker with Noah Boeken, in which Dutch celebrities were taught to play poker. He also appeared in the show Poker Kings Netherlands in which Boeken and Lüske filmed while attending poker tournaments.
Later he appeared in the show Celebrity Poker on Tien television channel.
Lüske was the first person to be eliminated in the World Series of Poker Europe, during the inaugural ₤2,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, in September 2007. As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,700,000. His 20 cashes as the WSOP account for $1,173,396 of those winnings.
Lüske was the poker mentor for David Williams (runner-up of the 2004 World Series of Poker) and Russian player Kirill Gerasimov, the runner-up of the World Poker Tour season 1 championship.
(Lüske finished in 14th place in that tournament, earning $26,664) Lüske formed the Circle of Outlaws group, which promotes young poker players.