German ace Fedor Holz has won back-to-back World Poker Tour High Roller titles, and over $5m in cash, after following up his Alpha8 win with victory in the WPT Triton Super High Roller Cali Cup.
“Who’s that guy?” asked one of the dealers, “He looks so cute.”
It was Fedor Holz.
He was sniffing around the €1,100 buy-in High Roller.
Just before Christmas, Holz took part in the $100,000 buy-in WPT Alpha8 event in Las Vegas. He won it for $1.5m defeating 45 entrants and some of the world’s greatest players. It was the largest score in poker in 2015.
It didn’t end there.
22-year old ‘cute’ Holz opened his Christmas presents, ate some Turkey, and jumped on a jet plane heading for the Philippines. There, he entered the $200,000 buy-in WPT Triton Super High Roller Cali Cup. It was the largest buy-in in WPT history. It created a prize pool of more than $10m.
Yay!! The double! #WPTPhilippines #SHR pic.twitter.com/qTB7E9QqMQ
— Fedor Holz (@CrownUpGuy) January 4, 2016
Holz outlasted 52 entrants, and a final table including Phil Ivey and former ‘Americas Most Wanted’ Paul Phua. He won $3.4m for his troubles; that’s $5m in the past fortnight.
The young man bounces from low to high stakes in the online world also. In 2014, he won the $5,200 buy-in World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event for $1.3m. In 2015, he won the $27 buy-in No-Limit Draw title at the Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) for $7k.
What a legend.
Phil Ivey was leading the event at the end of Day 1. The 2015 online cash game biggest loser (-$2.4m) couldn’t keep his bum in the driver’s seat. He finished fifth.
Holz competed with David Peters in heads-up action holding a 2:1 chip lead. The match up would last four hands. The pair getting it in with Holz holding pocket sevens against the ace-queen of clubs of Peters. The sevens held. Peters will be delighted with his $2,309,000 consolation prize. His 2015 live tournament haul of $2.9m was his best by some significant distance. 2016 promises to be even better. Like Holz, Peters also ended the year in fine fettle winning the $25,000 Aria High Roller XXI for close to half a million dollars.
WPT Triton Super High Roller Cali Cup Final Table Results
1st. Fedor Holz – $3,463,500
2nd. David Peters – $2,309,000
3rd. Devan Tang – $1,405,500
4th. Steve O’Dwyer – $953,700
5th. Phil Ivey – $656,500
6th. Daniel Colman – $502,000
7th. Paul Phua – $401,600
8th. Mike McDonald – $351,320
