Fedor Holz up over $10M in less than 2 months! - Page 2 - Poker News

"Due to his recent success, @CrownUpGuy confirmed he had a larger piece of himself in this event, and this is the biggest win of his career.

"This win feels like my way out of poker, I want to do and try other things." - @CrownUpGuy on playing far less poker going forward

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Yes fedor! Quit this crazy game while you're heaps ahead

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07-11-2016 , 10:57 AM

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Howard Federline

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Originally Posted by bstillmatic

who's the better nl holdem tourney player Fedor or Colman?

Wow that is a good question. Either of them would have a very narrow edge. I would go with Fedor because I think he might be slightly better live.

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07-11-2016 , 11:12 AM

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unlucky4me

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I heard he might have been ahead once when he got his money in during all this too

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07-11-2016 , 11:12 AM

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pocket_zeros

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Originally Posted by bstillmatic

who's the better nl holdem tourney player Fedor or Colman?

Fedor binks more and blinks less than Colman.

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07-11-2016 , 12:11 PM

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David Lyons

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Originally Posted by ohmyquad

never heard of Vienna, Germany

It's where everyone who was born in Vienna during WW2 was born.

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07-11-2016 , 12:19 PM

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MagikarpFTW

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Yes fedor! Quit this crazy game while you're heaps ahead

Spending another year or two grinding as hard as he did the recent month seems like a waste of talent to me. Especially as his motivation seems to have faded as he achievend most of his poker goals.
He's financially set, too, so why not refocus on subjects that are more fun/rewarding than poker?

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07-11-2016 , 01:29 PM

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thedude404

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Originally Posted by RLGallday

Shows you how smart this kid is. Get out when you are at the pinnacle and dont get greedy thinking you're going to stay at the top forever.

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07-11-2016 , 01:29 PM

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vrael111

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Pretty sick. Btw whatever happened to Schemion? Didnt he have a sick run like this in ~2013? Didnt hear about this guy for a loooong time

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07-11-2016 , 01:32 PM

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PeteBlow

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Originally Posted by Howard Federline

Actually, I think in the pokerboom era 2003- 2006, I think there were a ton more 10K tourneys.

I think the bulk of them were WPT, and they had a few other others, and there was only one 10k event at the W.S.O.P, mind you I could be wrong.

Absolutely. All the WPTs were 10k apart from the 5 Diamond that was 25k.

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07-11-2016 , 01:42 PM

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dogarse

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April 2015... Pocket 5s reports he had pretty much the sickest year ever online. Then he turned 21...

http://www.pocketfives.com/articles/...nupguy-590695/

The kid is amazing.

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07-11-2016 , 01:45 PM

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zigi

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Originally Posted by .isolated

I'll never understand why professional poker players are such degenerates. I know a lot might say, "well that's why they're so good. they're fearless". Whatever. I love Fedor but if it has that much of an impact on how much he keeps of himself, I find him completely pathetic.

You say this without knowing how much action he sell.I am confident he know how to handle his backing deals.Maybe the people that back him now are the same ones that backed him back in the day's when nobody knew who he was.He could take al action for him but my geuss is he is a loyal not so selfish person as most of us would be.

Fearless in the game is usualy fearless to go broke so i am sure Fedor would be have no problem to take 100% of himself.

Anyway we can agree it's a sick run for a great player.

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07-11-2016 , 02:01 PM

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SuperSwag

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Playing the best in world in 100k buy ins is probably extremely stressful. I don't blame Fedor for getting out while he's young and on top. Don't want to end up like one of these old pros who are miserable degens. Fedor is GOOD, never seen Dan Smith struggle so much against an opponent. He really got into Dan's head.

congrats

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07-11-2016 , 02:31 PM

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madlex

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Originally Posted by vrael111

Pretty sick. Btw whatever happened to Schemion? Didnt he have a sick run like this in ~2013? Didnt hear about this guy for a loooong time

He won the $100k high roller and got 2nd in the $50k high roller at EPT Monte Carlo at the end of April.

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Absolutely. All the WPTs were 10k apart from the 5 Diamond that was 25k.

Not true. I think they had 5-10 10ks per season back then plus the Bellagio $25k and sometimes a $15k, but also smaller events like 5ks. I remember the first four PCAs were part of the WPT and they had $7500-$8000 buy ins.

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07-11-2016 , 02:38 PM

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TouchOfEVil

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fedor would be my alltime favourite player if he quit playing poker now alltogether and just did mtt online grind odd few weeks out of the month to sustain his lifestyle and lockdown the yearly wsop/wcoop grinds and invest the money he piled up.

I mean, he can cut down his volume to 25% of what it is and move on and he would still stay relevant in mtts for years.

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07-11-2016 , 02:55 PM

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CommerceTy

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Bring in another Asian virgin says the Poker Gods to satisfy his thirst.

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07-11-2016 , 03:43 PM

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FeedmyKitty

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Originally Posted by .isolated

ok bud

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07-11-2016 , 04:33 PM

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4TeHloLz

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Extremely talented and extremely lucky. No better reason to quit than you just ran inconceivably above expectation over the last 3 years. Whats the point of continuing?

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07-11-2016 , 04:44 PM

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JTLY

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Originally Posted by vrael111

Pretty sick. Btw whatever happened to Schemion? Didnt he have a sick run like this in ~2013? Didnt hear about this guy for a loooong time

He didn't play a lot because he had a kid. But he shipped the 100k and finshed 2nd in the 50k days later when he came back at the EPT Grand Final this year.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=194214

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07-11-2016 , 05:24 PM

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d0nkSTRIKER

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Originally Posted by bstillmatic

who's the better nl holdem tourney player Fedor or Colman?

hellmuth

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07-11-2016 , 05:34 PM

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gausspoker

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lol the guy won a 500$ live mtt in 2013 for 4k. That is a sick move up in 3 ***** years.

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07-11-2016 , 08:19 PM

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SootedPowa

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Originally Posted by madlex

He won the $100k high roller and got 2nd in the $50k high roller at EPT Monte Carlo at the end of April.

Not true. I think they had 5-10 10ks per season back then plus the Bellagio $25k and sometimes a $15k, but also smaller events like 5ks. I remember the first four PCAs were part of the WPT and they had $7500-$8000 buy ins.

Yeah they had some different ones. Pretty sure this TV Main Event was a $500 rebuy, its on my season one dvd box set http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=5423

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07-11-2016 , 08:36 PM

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Fayth

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variance may never catch up to him given how far ahead of it he is lol

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07-11-2016 , 08:40 PM

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restorativejustice

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Originally Posted by Fayth

variance may never catch up to him given how far ahead of it he is lol

He should pull a Bobby Fisher and leave a winner and a legend.

Imagine if Isildurr had done the same after crushing Durrr.

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07-11-2016 , 09:46 PM

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MrGedge

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anything this kid touches is gonna be +eV

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07-11-2016 , 10:46 PM

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dogarse

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To be fair he never said anything about quitting poker. He just said the seven weeks straight at the WSOP was too much he wishes he'd flown to Mexico for a week in the middle of it.

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