[GUMMO77]

This kid

Fedor Holz cannot be stopped.
The 22-year-old German poker pro has won his fifth title of the year, defeating a field of 183 players to win the 2016 World Series of Poker $111,111 high roller for One Drop to win his first gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $4,981,775.
“Normally I am good with words, but this time I really don’t know what to say. I just feel so overwhelmed and I didn’t think that it would be like this. I just feel like I’m in heaven right now,” said Holz after he had emerged victorious.
This was Holz’s third seven-figure score of 2016. He has made 13 final tables this year and cashed for $14,517,350 along the way. With lifetime live tournament earnings of $18,395,882 he now sits in ninth place on the all-time money list. That’s an incredible accomplishment made even more impressive when one considers that last year was the first summer he was old enough to play at the WSOP.
“I played a lot of online poker, so I think I understand the variance pretty well,” said Holz when asked about his incredible run in 2016. “I think I’m on a heater that will only happen once, to me at least, and I just am trying to appreciate it and enjoy my time while it lasts.”

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Guy is an animal. Great player. Nice to run good, too.

I watched him play 9 h2h games in GPL. Went 8-1.

[SharpAngles]

Rumor is he had 100% of himself in this one too

Guys Hendon Mob is fukn ridiculous

08-Jul-2016	United States	$ 111,111 No Limit Hold'em High Roller for One Drop (single re-entry) (Event #67) 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016, Las Vegas	1st		$ 4,981,775	624.47
07-Jul-2016	United States	$ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em Aria Super High Roller 10, Las Vegas	3rd		$ 407,310	287.44	194.42
05-Jul-2016	United States	$ 5,000 No Limit Hold'em (Event #59) 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016, Las Vegas	39th		$ 15,823	242.43	182.95
17-Jun-2016	United States	$ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em Aria High Roller 34, Las Vegas	1st		$ 276,012	407.71
14-Jun-2016	United States	$ 3,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed (Event #21) 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016, Las Vegas	47th		$ 8,716	194.30	158.79
10-Jun-2016	United States	$ 24,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em Aria High Roller 32, Las Vegas	1st		$ 393,120	439.16	300.60
08-Jun-2016	United States	$ 1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed (Event #10) 47th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2016, Las Vegas	18th		$ 17,380	185.83	201.33
03-Jun-2016	United States	$ 48,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller 9, Las Vegas	1st		$ 637,392	442.19	303.39
29-May-2016	United States	$ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em Super High Roller Bowl with 888poker, Las Vegas	2nd		$ 3,500,000	383.43	253.91
27-May-2016	United States	$ 50,000 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller Super High Roller 7, Las Vegas	7th		$ 122,400	238.06	173.54
05-May-2016	Monaco	€ 2,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - 8 Handed #70 EPT - 12 - FPS - 6 - Grand Final, Monte Carlo	25th	€ 4,280	$ 4,918	127.05	113.40
03-May-2016	Monaco	€ 5,000 + 200 No Limit Hold'em - Hyper Turbo 8Max #60 EPT - 12 - FPS - 6 - Grand Final, Monte Carlo	7th	€ 15,450	$ 17,743	186.33	144.39
01-May-2016	Monaco	€ 49,000 + 1,000 No Limit Hold'em - Super High Roller #37 EPT - 12 - FPS - 6 - Grand Final, Monte Carlo	5th	€ 271,670	$ 310,892	316.35	209.58
29-Apr-2016	Monaco	€ 1,000 + 75 No Limit Hold'em - Hyper Turbo #25 EPT - 12 - FPS - 6 - Grand Final, Monte Carlo	21st	€ 1,940	$ 2,199	77.59	85.41
26-Apr-2016	Monaco	€ 10,000 + 300 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller #2 EPT - 12 - FPS - 6 - Grand Final, Monte Carlo	4th	€ 169,000	$ 190,123	411.89	303.83
19-Apr-2016	United States	$ 25,500 No Limit Hold'em - High Roller #27 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, Hollywood	13th		$ 58,750	237.15	173.21
02-Mar-2016	United States	$ 1,100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty Turbo #56 2016 WPT L.A Poker Classic, Los Angeles	13th		$ 1,130	85.24	92.58
24-Jan-2016	Australia	A$ 98,000 + 2,000 No Limit Hold'em $100,000 Challenge (Event #12) 2016 Aussie Millions Poker Championship, Melbourne	6th	A$ 281,260	$ 196,901	230.37	170.81
14-Jan-2016	Bahamas	$ 2,200 #101 No Limit Hold'em - 8-Handed Turbo PCA - 2016, Paradise Island	4th		$ 19,700	176.83	155.35
08-Jan-2016	Bahamas	$ 5,300 #26 No Limit Hold'em - PCA Main Event PCA - 2016, Paradise Island	18th		$ 32,360	236.65	252.13
03-Jan-2016	Philippines	$ 196,000 + 4,000 No Limit Hold'em Triton Super High Roller Series (Event #3) 2016 World Poker Tour National (WPTN) - Philippines, Paranaque City

And that's only this year

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Sharp, that was the question I was going to ask! If true, big props to him. Fedor is a great player, will establish himself as a legend in next 10 years!

[GUMMO77]

Not sure if anyone saw this table on the stream, but at the end when Rast joined the both you could just tell he plays on another level like Fedor does. Huge props to Rast for taking down the 50k again.

[JAKEPEAVY21]

was his good buddy sniper in the winner's photo?

[Crusherrr]

He likely had 100% of himself and also had shares in Koray who got 3rd. So if we assume he had maybe 20% of him then he also gets another $420k for that. Absurd.

[GUMMO77]

This kid wins another tourney for 1.4 million.
http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news...00-high-roller

[Grivas_Digeni]

Do Germans pay tax on poker tournament winnings?

If yes it's only a matter of time before he has a passport of some Caribbean country to uhm... tax optimize.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

It's crazy. Everyone gets two cards. You would think there's a limit to what u could do w/ them.

He wins everything. Can't just say it's "good luck." Guy is a machine.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Boys, what do u think? Should we be watching any Fedor video we can find?

My observation is this. Most players look at their hand and evaluate the strength. More than any other player I've seen, Fedor is playing the other guy's cards. He has a very good idea what YOU hold. If he senses weakness, he's going to put u to the test.

[steady hustlin]

When it comes to no limit hold em tournaments it's about making reads, so obviously he's very good at putting people on a hand. But, as he noted, he's on fuckin fire. Everyone looks smart, good, etc. when they're consistently dragging pots and obviously he's those things, but running as good as he has for so long is hard to comprehend. I watched a few of the big pots he played in the big buy in tournament at the WSOP and he got there in a big way after misplaying quite a few hands. It's not like he's not gonna go bust with set over set like everyone else. Not getting in those scenarios is part of the luck factor. Also, when your running as hot as he is, the amount of fold equity he has on other top players who know to stay out of the way of someone catching, is really high. You get to get away with bluffs and semi bluffs way more than normal. conversely, when your running bad, people are less likely to fold to you as they know what it looks like to watch you lose pots and it subconsciously initiates a greater propensity for them to call you, to draw at you, and to even bluff you. People often get off more winners when they're running bad because they're snake bit. They might get off third or fourth pair, despite a read whereas when they're running good they're more confident to trust their opinion. Yes, if you can't trust your instincts then don't play the game, but how your running will always influence decisions that "should" have nothing to do with it. It's human nature. For all of these WSOP, WPT, young gun success stories, very few of them have stuck around. Thinking back to all of the stories we've heard each summer that are close to this guy, how many of them are still doing it? While he's not exactly a young internet player type, the 2010 WSOP player of the year Frank Kassela is a good example of this. He ran so damn hot that year but in the end, it's really good for him that he makes his money off a bunch of different businesses because he'd probably go broke strictly off poker, most people do, even the "pros."

I've been around gambling enough to have strong reason to believe that some gamblers are just luckier than others. I've also met some people that are straight coolers, I mean they'll get it all
in on the turn against a 20:1 shot and consistently lose, especially if it's a huge pot that would affect their life. And I've also met some people that are plain lucky, a lot of the bookmakers I know catch cards like crazy. Your strengths as a cardplayer will always shine brighter when your experiencing good luck.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Good writeup, steady. But I do think Fedor is a cut above.

It's like he sees thru the backs of cards. He rarely gets it in when he's not at least 40%.

My opinion is that he shines on Wet-boards. He will back u down and make mortals lay it down.

[Auto Donk]

never blink

if you bet/call it, it will come.....

[steady hustlin]

Thanks for the compliment man. I just don't buy it like some of you do though. I just watched the highlights from the 2015 tournament to get a better idea and he was donking around in a lot of different pots. I get that your talking about this year but there was a hand where if he really could smell blood he would have. He's really smart to say that he's going to focus on a lot of other stuff but this is what a lot of them say. Sooner or later he will miss the action and come back to the game like everyone else. It would be against human nature to have the success he's had as a young adult and to not try and relive some of it later on. I mean as a gambler, it's unfathomable to imagine how he must feel right now and it's enough of a rush to essentially leave you high for a very long time. Shit, I wouldn't want to play and lose to diminish any of it if I were him, but I'd also feel a tremendous amount of pressure to keep exploiting the rush until it starts to disappear. He should be playing the biggest cash games around, as long as they don't have cheating which I'm sure a lot of them do, and peg those chips to a certain number. Regardless of the vocation, when your operating under the level of confidence that he has in your given specialty, it's hard to make anything that won't be brilliant. He's not walking up to the window with his head down hoping he makes a cash to pay the mortgage. He's waking in probably wondering how he can lose. Despite all this, I still think his success has more to do with luck than anything. You want a good card player? He's a prick but that Dan Coleman can really play. I played no limit against him back in 2010 in California at the Commerce Casino and he was like a hurricane.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

Agree re: Colman. Very good player.

There's a video where he lays down AA to Siever on a dry board, and he just knew he was right.

[steady hustlin]

He was tough to read. Was a really cocky guy but that comes with the territory and lots of people from the east coast act like that. Some type of compensation.

Anyway, man, we played two hands. This guy wasn't a name at the time, and shit I might even be wrong because I don't know if he was 21 but then again that doesn't matter to play typically and I'm 99% sure it was him but I can't be certain. This was in 2010. In the early 2000s btw, it was easy to play cards in Vegas at 18 with an Id that you couldn't look at and not laugh so don't know if that's enough to stop them from letting players in at ca Cardrooms but they didnt really id in commerce at all. Didn't use to anyway. so I raise queens pre and get away from a king high flop lost probably 200-300 at 5-10 NL. Few hands later I'm on the button and this guy is just throwing chips in left and right. I three bet him with Queen Jack offsuit because I don't think he has anything and I want the money back from the queens. He checks a low flop. Was like 753 or something with no particular suit in front. He then raised me on the flop and I decide I'm going to float to go all in on the river or make some big bet at the end to try and look like I'm greedy and want a call or make some value bet at the end like, ok, please pay this bill. Was so ready to do it because it was just time to take a stand and I had him on air this whole hand. Turn is a queen. penetrate man, was really unlucky that I turned that card because it made me want to slow down and change my plan. Was looking for showdown value now as there was already a lot in there. So he leads big and I just call since there are so many hands he's betting here that can't beat queen Jack. On the river he ends up going all in after I basically holly wooded myself on the turn, fk again. Now either the bottom card paired or a possible wheel came, it was one thing or the other. But I ended up going from floating to bluff steal, calling to show it down, to folding/losing the pot. Gave up about $1000 to him. Just shows how a really good player can make your head spin. Now seeing what I've seen from him on TV, I have every reason to believe he did have the King nine he said he had on the second hand. May have been a real hand and the read to fold that came out of nowhere at the end may have been right but it probably wasn't since he can't fkin check like a million zillion hands there. Never know, but odds are he was telling the truth and that I had a chance to ship a massive pot, got outplayed, and let it go. What I wouldn't do to be rolled and to play with him again. Never a good idea to play because of ego but it's just such an egotistical game if you really think about it. We all want to win every hand. Anyways, that's my story. Do you play a lot in California?