It has been a rough end of 2014 for sponsored pros of some of the largest online poker sites in the world. If you’re a regular reader of PocketFives, you’ll know last month, PokerStarsparted ways with Marcel Luske and 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event winner jcada99 Joe Cada.

In August, it was more of the same, as PokerStars parted wayswith Jose “Nacho” Barbero, Angel Guillen, and longtime pro Humberto Brenes. Around the same time, Ultimate Poker, a regulated US site, trimmed its roster of names like William Reynolds XOReynolds, Jeremy Ausmus, Phil USCphildoCollins, and Brent bhanks11Hanks. Reynolds responded by going on a Twitter tirade against his former employer. Jason JCarver Somerville left Ultimate Poker in recent days.

So, yes, being a sponsored pro of an online poker site has been anything but stable recently. Enter Marvin Rettenmaier (pictured above), who had been on the roster of Team PartyPoker for the last two-and-a-half years. On Sunday, he announced via Facebook that he had left the PartyPoker stable: “I would like to thank PartyPoker for the good collaboration and the fun times over the last 2.5 years. Don’t worry, just because I won’t be with Party anymore doesn’t mean that I’ll need to decrease the partying in my lifestyle.”

The German pro added, “I’m playing Day 1 of EPT London today and since I won the first tournament with PartyPoker, it’s just common sense that I will win the first one without them as well! Good luck everybody!”

As outlined by F5 Poker, Rettenmaier spent two years in the top 10 of the Global Poker Index. And, according to the latter site, he spent 18 weeks at #1. He is #7 on the all-time money list for Germany, according to the Hendon Mob, and has turned in a variety of top-tier wins over the years, including the France Poker Series Main Event in Paris for $332,000 in 2011 and the following year’s WPT Championship in Las Vegas for $1.1 million.

In late 2012, Rettenmaier won WPT Cyprus for $287,000 and took down the EPT Prague High Roller Event several months later for another $477,000. He has $4.7 million in live winnings and passed $500,000 in winnings from brick-and-mortar tournaments every year since 2010.

Rettenmaier was still listed as a PartyPoker Team Pro on the site’s blog when we checked it out. Kara Scott and WPT host Mike Sexton round out the squad.

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