Why 32-Year-Old Fedor Holz, with $50M in Cashes, is Stepping Down from GGPoker

Not each celebrity goes the Doyle Brunson route and grinds the high-stakes poker video games till they die.

Fedor Holz, one of many prime match crushers the previous decade, has determined to step again a bit from the sport, no less than professionally. He first knowledgeable his X followers that, after six years representing the web poker big, he has determined he will not renew his ambassador contract with GGPoker.

After dropping the shocking GGPoker information, he continued to say that he’s “making an attempt to have youngsters this yr and I’m launching an funding fund, in order that shall be my full focus going ahead.” As such, as his tweet implies, he is leaving the sport of poker in a significant capability. However it’s unclear if he nonetheless plans to pop up at random tournaments such because the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Primary Occasion, or maybe a PGT excessive curler right here and there.

Holz Turned a Poker Famous person at a Younger Age

Holz, a German professional, has achieved an amazing deal in poker at age 32. He already has $50 million in dwell match cashes, The Hendon Mob database exhibits. That features two WSOP bracelets and three Triton Poker titles.

The now former GGPoker ambassador made his presence felt in 2015 when he ran deep in two PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) occasions and a Twenty fifth-place end within the WSOP Primary Occasion, after which he took down the $100,000 WPT Alpha8 for $1,589,219 to shut out the yr.

Little did the poker world know the 22-year-old on the time was about to have a historic yr in 2016, with over $16 million in dwell match cashes, third all time behind Antonio Esfandiari ($19 million in 2012) and Dan Colman ($22 million in 2014). Justin Bonomo surpassed the report held by Colman in 2018 with over $25 million in cashes. Coincidentally, Bonomo defeated Holz heads-up that yr to win the $1 million buy-in WSOP Huge One for One Drop for $10 million. Bryn Kenney then topped everybody with $30 million in cashes in 2019.

Holz, following his banner yr in 2016, started to cut back the match grind. He signed with PartyPoker as an envoy in 2017 earlier than transferring on to GGPoker a pair years later. He nonetheless continued taking part in sufficient tournaments to place up seven-figure cashes yearly, however has been equally targeted on varied enterprise ventures.

Holz is not leaving poker absolutely, nevertheless. He wrote on X that he plans to make “1-2 journeys a yr” to Triton occasions. If he by no means cashes one other match, which appears unlikely, he exits the sport as Germany’s all-time winningest dwell match participant and one of many prime excessive rollers ever.