When a player wins a high roller tournament, many would attribute his victory to luck. However, when that same player wins seven high roller tournaments within an eight-month span, saying that he has just been lucky would be an insulting understatement of his obvious skills.
Only a month after German poker pro Fedor Holz announced that we will be seeing less of him on the live poker circuit, he bested the field of yet another prestigious high roller tournament. Last night, the player won the EPT Season 13 Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller, adding €1,300,300 to his poker bankroll and yet another title to his impressive portfolio.
Holz has collected more than $16 million since the beginning of the year, last night’s payout included. Last month, the young German captured his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet for winning the $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP. His first-place prize from the tournament amounted to a little less than $5 million.
The EPT Season 13 Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller’s final day started with nine players returning to set the official eight-handed final table. Holz was second in chips at the start of Day 3 action. Once there were only eight hopefuls left, the German just sat back and left it to Canadian Sam Greenwood to eliminate their remaining opponents. Eventually, they were the last two men standing at the table.
The two opponents were almost even in chips at the start of two-handed play. Yet, for the sake of precision, it was Holz who held a slight chip advantage over Greenwood. The 23-year-old German did not take long before increasing his lead significantly.
The moment of victory came when Greenwood shoved for his last remaining 3,150,000 with [6h][5h]. Holz called with [Ad][Kd]. The board ran out [9d][7s][Kc][4c][Qd], with none of the cards tabled being of any help to the Canadian. The player took home not a bad payout of €903,600 for his runner-up finish in this season’s first EPT Super High Roller.
Here are the rest of the players to have made it to the final table and their respective payouts:
Timothy Adams, the other Canadian among the final eight, finished 3rd in the event for €597,500. The player kicked off Day 3 of the tournament as a chip leader. Greece’s Alexandros Kolonias took 4th place, good for €467,700. Ahadpur Khangah from Azerbaijan finished 5th for a payout of €377,100.
Frenchman Sylvain Loosli received €293,800 for taking 6th place in the event. Daniel Dvoress, yet another Canadian player at the final table, finished 7th, good for €232,600. Julian Stuer from Germany rounded out the official final table for a total of €181,200.
Erik Seidel, Stanley Choi, John Juanda, Adrian Mateos, and Conor Drinan were the other players to scoop a payout from the overall prize pool.
This year’s EPT Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller attracted a total of 102 entries, of whom 78 unique players and 24 re-entries. They all generated the overall prize pool of €4,897,530.
