Fedor Holz is a German poker player and WSOP bracelet winner. He is also a GGPoker Ambassador.
Holz can be seen on the first season of GGPoker's Game of Gold, a poker reality competition on the GGPoker YouTube channel.
Over the course of his career he has amassed over $36 million in lifetime earnings and sits top of the German all-time money list. He has since embarked on a career outside of poker, including the mind coaching app Primed Mind and the poker-teaching platform Pokercode.
Biography
Holz shot to prominence in September 2014, after winning the PokerStars WCOOP Main Event. At his first World Series of Poker in 2015, he finished third in the highly competitive $10,000 Six-Handed Championship and followed that up with a 25th place finish in the Main Event.
Many poker fans wish for the 2016 that Holz enjoyed. But in fact, his stellar 2016 began in December 2015, winning the World Poker Tour Alpha8 Las Vegas for $1.5 million. Barely a month later, he was winning another WPT Super High Roller in the Philippines, this time for over $3 million.
After further cashes at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, Aussie Millions and European Poker Tour, Holz returned to Las Vegas ahead of that year’s World Series of Poker.
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By way of warm-up, he finished second in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl for $3.5 million. He followed that up with his first WSOP bracelet in the $111,111 High Roller for One Drop, defeating Dan Smith to win $4,981,775. But Holz wasn’t done, heading to Barcelona to win another Super High Roller, this time for another $1.4 million.
German Superstar Fedor Holz Is Crushing, But Says It's His Last Full WSOP
Holz's retirement to focus on business interests saw the young phenom go out on a high, but was a continued presence on the Triton Super High Roller Series, adding cashes in Montenegro and Macau. He also finished second in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop in 2018 for $6 million - the largest cash of his career to date.
In May 2020, it was announced that Holz would become a GGPoker Ambassador.
Following his unveiling as a GGPoker Ambassador, Holz added a second bracelet to his trophy cabinet, winning the$25,000 Heads-up on GGPoker.com in September 2020 for a cool $1,077,250.
Fedor Holz Wins Second Bracelet in WSOP Online Event #79: $25,000 Heads Up NLHE ($1,077,025)
In 2022, he finished fourth in the $200,000 Coin Rivet Invitational.
Holz was one of several top poker players and personalities tapped by GGPoker for its reality-TV spin-off from Poker After Dark. The first season—with Holz competing—aired in November 2023 as Game of Gold.
Holz's Top Five Biggest Cashes
Date | Event | Buy-in | Place | Payout |
---|---|---|---|---|
July 2018 | WSOP Big One for One Drop | $1,000,000 | 2nd | $6,000,000 |
July 2016 | WSOP High Roller for One Drop | $111,111 | 1st | $4,981,775 |
May 2016 | Super High Roller Bowl I | $300,000 | 2nd | $3,500,000 |
January 2016 | Triton Super High Roller Series Philippines | $200,000 | 1st | $3,072,748 |
October 2017 | Triton Super High Roller Series Macau | HK$1,000,000 | 1st | HK$16,398,000 |
Data courtesy of The Hendon Mob
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