- communications, consulting & photography for 3D Events|| prime nightlife venues and events in Luxembourg
Recurrent media contributions:
- worldwide correspondent for PokerFirma.com || leading German speaking Poker portal - content creator for PokerTurniere.live || live Poker event listing - content creator for CasinoCityGuide.eu|| travel tips for Poker players on the move - communications & photography for Vamos Poker Tour || international Poker tour - production assistant & content creator Absolutely Must Go || documentary movie
Rozvadov, Czech Republic, 2017 - photo by Katerina Lukina
About this site
I spend a lot of time traveling. View a selection of Poker pictures but also all sorts of non-Poker photo reports of projects I am involved in on the PHOTOS & COVERAGES page. Generally speaking, I like to avoid having humans in my wide shots, even when I am taking urban shots. That being said, when I shoot people, I enjoy to report about what they do and how they do it. I love following communities or documenting creative processes.
You can scroll through a listing of articles dedicated to info and thoughts I would like to share in the NEWS BLOG section. It is generally Poker-related but not in a classic way. I mix it up by adding content about other topics I am interested in like photography, mindset, art, science or history. You will find a link to the former blog section (before summer 2017). These two sections have been merged now with Poker tournament agenda updates and blogging info about other topics I care about.
Also, you can find a list of Poker events I promote as an ambassador for various international brands in the POKER TRIPS section. I mostly promote events I am planning to attend myself and I will be happy to assist you to join on one of my journeys. THE-ROUNDERdotnet is supported by various occasional and long-term partners but it is an independent non-commercial blog.
The ART & PRINTS section is constantly under construction and deconstruction depending on how much time I have to dedicate to it.
The name of this project obviously reminds everyone of the Poker movie but that's not what inspired me. In Poker, a 'ROUNDER' is a player who is moving around from card game to card game like a nomad. This is basically what I have been doing since roughly 2010 as a photojournalist and Poker player but it is also what I have been doing long before in my life as a former touring musician/producer/event manager. My blog was and still is a lot about Poker since the game is the primary reason why I travel but I gradually added other photo reports to my archive since I come across many different and interesting people, projects and events worth documenting while I am on my way to everywhere.
THE-ROUNDERdotnet is designed responsively and therefore should display correctly on all sorts of devices but still looks best on a good old computer screen if you ask me.
You can find me on Facebook via THIS LINK. A short biography is online just below for those who care and I have talked extensively about me as a photojournalist in 2021 in an interview by Alex 'BrutallyHonest' Rotenberg. Read it HERE.
Click the photo to read the interview by Alex Rotenberg.
I also got interviewed by Melvin Schroën as my introduction to THE FESTIVAL SERIES media team in Nottingham during February 2023.
Hi there. I'm Damiano. Thanks for the interest. I was born in Luxembourg and I travel around from Poker event to Poker event in order to play card games or to report about them mainly by shooting photos. I shoot pictures everywhere I travel to and this blog simply serves the purpose of sharing information about Poker events I am attending or planing to attend.
With a scientific and cultural educational background and after a music career as a touring drummer & DJ then producer, publisher and manager from the mid 90s to the early 2000s, I ended up taking part to roughly 600 shows in 30 countries. If we would have had hashtags back then, #onstageeverywhere would have been one our favourite ones :p
I then transitioned to event management, cultural management & consulting, environmental and political activism followed by more corporate private businesses like running a night club or owning a communication agency ... always keeping a camera somewhere close ... In 2007, I stumbled across Poker, somehow I got good enough at it to make money and keep traveling while working on the go.
Brunette a.k.a. The #allineverywhere Mobile
Over the years, photography allowed me to have a small but steady revenue besides my Poker monkey swinging and I gathered enough knowledge and experience to start working with some of the worldwide leading Poker companies or casinos as a freelance photographer, blogger, live commentator, TV table director, camera operator, consultant ... you name it. Spending time with the best in the game, I discovered PLO and gradually moved to Pot Limit Omaha cash games as the NLH tables were becoming tougher and tougher.
A bunch of people helped me through my roughest times and so I am trying to give some back by helping people where I can by giving away small portions of my modest winnings during Poker solidarity challenges fuelled by the idea that the world will be as good as we are ourselves.
I am fluent in four languages (English, French, German & Luxembourgish), my Italian is more than decent and I have basic knowledge in Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese... aaand I can count from 1 to 1000 in Slovak :-p
I am still homeless by choice today (last edit in early 2023) with a legal base in Luxembourg where I go back every few weeks for work or random administration stuff beside visiting family and old friends. I occasionally set up bases in places I enjoy particularly. Las Vegas is on that list but also Estoril near Lisbon in Portugal or Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, are kinda recurrent stops of mine these days.