Nobody will deny that Fedor Holz is one of the best pokerplayers (No-Limit Hold’em Tournaments) out there at this moment. He has proven himself time and time again. Well, he’s done it again, besting a field of 183 absolute high rollers in the $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, earning himself $4,981,775. He has a total of a little over $14,7 million in cashes just in 2016 now.
With a buy-in like this, it isn’t strange that the final table was filled with noteable names. This was the line-up of the final table of nine:
Seat 177% up to 5BTC + 77 Free Spins! New players only. Exclusive Welcome Bonus of 177% + 77 Free Spins | Player | Chips |
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Seat 1 | Scott Seiver 5BTC or 111% + 111 Free Spins! New players only. Exclusive 111% Welcome Bonus + 111 Free Spins | 6.070.000 (30 bb) |
Seat 2 | Dan Smith | 22.400.000 (112 bb) |
Seat 3 | Nick Petrangelo Get 125% / $2,500 on 1st deposit! New players only. Exclusive Welcome Bonus of up to $2,500 | 5.850.000 (29 bb) |
Seat 4 | Fedor Holz | 10.930.000 (55 bb) |
Seat 5 | Niall Farrell | 4.040.000 (20 bb) |
Seat 6 | Brian Green | 15.260.000 (76 bb) |
Seat 7 | Joe McKeehen | 7.940.000 (40 bb) |
Seat 8 | Jack Salter | 11.655.000 (58 bb) |
Seat 9 | Koray Aldemir | 7.370.000 (37 bb) |
Scott Seiver was the first player to leave the table. He shoved his last 2,6 million chips to the middle with
Joe McKeehen then busted Niall Farrell, his
Only a few hands later Holz had the magic pair of 4’s again, this time holding against Petrangelo’s
Things went pretty fast from that point on. McKeehen found himself at the wrong end of a huge cooler situation, flopping the second nut flush with
Again one hand later, Holz showed the definition of running hot. His
Nine hands later heads-up play was reached, Dan Smith’s pocket 9’s held up against Aldemir’s 7’s. Holz started the heads-up play with a 1,5:1 chip advantage. Smith took the chiplead from Holz at one point, but Holz doubled again through Smith to retake the lead. In the final hand, Smith had all his chips in the middle on the river with
The results of the final 8:
Place | Player | Country | Price |
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1 | Fedor Holz | Germany | $4.981.775 |
2 | Dan Smith | USA | $3.078.974 |
3 | Koray Aldemir | Austria | $2.154.265 |
4 | Jack Salter | Uk | $1.536.666 |
5 | Brian Green | USA | $1.117.923 |
6 | Joe McKeehen | USA | $829.792 |
7 | Nick Petrangelo | USA | $628.679 |
8 | Niall Farrell | UK | $486.383 |