After his debut at the WSOP, German player Fedor Holz continued climbing to reach his best ranks in the GPI and the GPI Player of the Year leaderboards. After this week’s update of the two rankings, the German is taking 38th place in the first one with 2,977.42 points he has collected since the beginning of the year and 18th in the latter with a total of 2,777.33 points.
The 21-year-old player became eligible to take part in the World Series of Poker this year. And he did quite well during the summer edition of the Series. The player cashed in four events to capture more than half a million dollars.
First, he took 48th place in Event #14: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout for $5,413. Next, he cashed in Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em for $4,917. Holz’s 3rd-place finish in Event #37 or the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship secured him with $268,463. Finally, the player made it to the money in this year’s Main Event. He finished 25th to add $262,574 to his poker bankroll.
The German also did quite well during the EPT Season 11 Grand Final in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He took 7th place in the €100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller event and received €337,500 for his efforts. Holz scooped yet another 6-figure money prize during this year’s edition of the most celebrated European poker festival. He finished 4th in the €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller 8-Handed for €329,800 of the entire prize pool.
Holz has collected a total of $1,731,406 in live tournament earnings since the beginning of his career and his cash history shows that he scored his first in-the-money finish back in 2012, when he was paid €15,320 for taking 2nd place in the €500 GPT II Deepstack Series Main Event, held at Kings Casino in the Czech Republic’s village of Rozvadov.
Apart from his live tournament achievements, the young German can also boast of a major online title. Back in 2014, he became the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event champion, capturing the amount of $1.3 million after a 13-hour online session. The player could be spotted online under the screen name CrownUpGuy. When asked why he had chosen that particular name, he answered that he just liked crowns.
