Fedor Holz: genius from Germany. Fedor Holtz told Forbes all his secrets Best player achievements: Fedor Holtz

In my youth has already completed his professional career. Later explaining that he meant that he no longer needed to earn a living from the game, since he had already provided for himself and his family for several decades to come.

Now the German poker player participates only in those that are interesting to him. Moreover, he gives greater preference to live sessions, having played only 790 hands in the online space last year.

Fedor Holtz - biography

The young star of world poker was born in Germany on July 25, 1993. At the age of 20 he moved to Vienna (Austria). Since childhood Holtz showed excellent results His IQ was 155. For example, the IQ of Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein was 160. With age, Holtz's score decreased slightly. According to Fedor, this is due to age regression.

Fedor Holz is very loyal to journalists and fans. In his interviews, he repeatedly said that grew up in a poor family. Her mother worked as a social worker, and her father worked as a police officer. However, despite this, he characterizes his family as friendly and united. Parents motivated and supported me all the time future professional. Now that Fedor has earned enough money, he helps his family (he has two younger sisters).

Initially, Fedor Holz took poker seriously as a way to make money. Immediately after the first major skid, he fulfilled my childhood dream– gave my parents a house. It all started when, at the age of majority, he realized that he was not living his own life. Studying did not bring the guy pleasure and did not provide ways for self-realization, and besides, financial problems forced the guy look for possible options to improve the situation. At that time, two of his friends were already making money playing poker. He decided to try it too. And for good reason.

After some time, the guy was noticed and a couple of months after getting acquainted with poker, Fedor Holz already signed a contract. And then he left his studies, deciding to start a professional career.

Fedor Holz beginning of his career

It was under this pseudonym that Fedor began his professional journey. Based on the results of the first year he was at a big disadvantage. According to him, he felt strong pressure from the outside. Wanting to rectify the situation, the backer with whom the player collaborated hired a professional trainer for him by MTT. And it yielded results.

The first major victory – 1st place in the WCOOP online tournament in 2014 – helped increase the German’s bank account by $1,300,000. A few days later, Fedor Holz earned another $38,000 in the Full Tilt online tournament.

Continuing at the same pace, after some time he took his place among the most successful players in the online space. And for two years in a row (2014 and 2015) he became the leader.

Already at that time, Holtz realized that he was able to earn money and provide for himself and his family through poker, so he began to try himself in live tournaments. AND within a year he had $7 million in his piggy bank profit from life performances.

Best year

The most 2016 was a successful year for Fedor. Earlier this year, he won a Philippine tournament and took home almost $3.5 million in prize money. In May, he went to a two-month series of tournaments in Las Vegas, where he received his first well-deserved bracelet and $5 million from the very beginning. A few days later, he took second place and $3.5 million in another high-stakes tournament. For 2016 Fedor Holtz earned a total of almost $17 million.

In addition to the WSOP gold bracelet, the young genius has three spades and 2 WPT titles. In addition to live performances, Fedor also skates online: the total winnings are about 2.5 million dollars.

At the end of Holz's most successful year announces the end of his professional career, that doesn't stop him from continuing to win. Now the guy plays only for his own pleasure. At the recent Million Dollar Big One for One Drop at the World Series of Poker, Fedor took second place and took home $6 million in prize money.

Besides poker Fedor Holtz loves to travel. Now that he has earned enough money, he spends virtually no time at home. Most of all, Fedor loves the mountains.
Since childhood, Holtz has been interested in psychology. In 2017, together with psychologist Eliot Rowe, Fedor founded a company and released a phone application that helps people who lack self-confidence - Primed Mind.
In his successful year, Fedor Holz surpassed even Phil Hellmuth and Sam Trickett in terms of earnings and took sixth place in the ranking of the richest poker players.
In the poker community he is called a “real phenomenon.”
Last year he became the face of PartyPoker.

Best Achievements

First place and winning $4,981,775 at the 2016 WSOP No Limit Hold'em Opening Event #67 in Las Vegas.
Second place and winning $3,500,000 in the 2016 $300,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller Tournament with 888poker in Las Vegas.
First place and $3,463,500 in prize money in 2016 in the No Limit Hold'em Triton Super High Roller Series (Event #3) tournament in the Philippines.
Won $1,589,219 in the 2015 WPT Alpha 8 $100,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller Event #18 in Las Vegas.
First place and $1,473,127 in prize money in the €48.5K buy-in No Limit Hold'em High Roller EPT13 – ESPT – 7 in Barcelona.

On July 25, 2017, one of the most successful and at the same time promising professional poker players of our time celebrated his next birthday. It’s a little confusing, and some may even break the stereotypes, but Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz is no less than 24 years old. It seems like no one, let alone Fedor Holtz, probably had to rack his brains over the financial component and sacrifice anything in order to throw exactly the kind of party on the occasion of his birthday that he wanted to do for this special day of his.

Just before his birthday, the German professional poker player gave himself a nice gift. Less than ten days before the holiday, Fedor Holz won another major no-limit hold'em tournament, HK$250,000 No Limit Hold'em - 6 Max at the Triton Super High Roller Series 2017 and received HK$3,472,200 ($444,893) as a first place prize. Now the total career winnings in live poker tournaments of a native of the German city of Saarbrücken (Saarbrückenв) is $23,354,887.And this is at the age of 24!!!

In the All Time Money List ranking, Fedor Holz now occupies a high sixth place. He only needs to win about $500,000 and he will break into the top five most successful poker players of all time. Just some $500,000 and he will surpass no one else on this list, but the legendary Phillip D. Ivey.

And if in the world ranking Fedor Holz is still only in the middle of the top ten, then in the anthological ranking among German players he has long been without equal. In the Germany All Time Money List ranking, he has already managed to confidently take the lead and break away from his closest pursuers by more than $9 million.

In just the last two years, Fedor Holtz has exploded to the top, becoming one of the most recognizable and most popular professional poker players. In just the last two years, he has managed to carve out a strong place for himself on the poker Olympus, where the brightest and most successful poker professionals are located, traveling around the world in search of live poker tournaments with the highest prize pools.

Not every professional poker player is as young and as successful as Fedor Holz. Fedor Holz is a professional poker player who has made his success story into a story worthy of emulation. All fans of Fedor Holz's talent sincerely hope that his current success story is just the beginning of a story that will turn into the story of one of the greatest poker players in the world.

In a very short period of time, within the framework of a person’s conscious life path, Fyodor Holtz has already managed to achieve quite a lot of success in life and amass quite a fortune. What's even more amazing about his story is the fact that he only started playing poker four or five years ago. Of course, his success story could not go unnoticed in the circles of the rich and famous of this world. The most fashionable business publication of our time, Forbes, also became interested in the success story of Fedor Holtz.

A few days before his 24th birthday, Forbes journalist interviewed Fedor Holtz. Well, as a journalist. (To be honest, I have long had the impression that “mere mortals” don’t write for Forbes. There is probably a brutal three-day casting for the position of a garbage collector, with a careful pre-selection based on a resume. That’s it. Stop. Enough humor. Sorry, but couldn’t resist.) Journalist Darren Heitner interviewed Fedor Holtz and acted as the author of an article in Forbes.

No, I still think it’s necessary to give a brief background on the journalist, so that the reader of the article has an idea of how seriously Forbes took the creation of the material about Fedor Holtz. Darren Adam Heitner, Esq.: Graduate of the University of Florida. He holds a BA and PhD from the University of Florida. Professor in the Department of Sports Law at the University of Florida. Founder and editor-in-chief of Sports Agent Blog. Founder and CEO of Dynasty Dealings, LLC. Author of the acclaimed book "How to Play the Game: What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know" ". well, etc.

So what did one multimillionaire interview another about and what opinion about Fedor Holtz did Darren Heitner express in his article.

Darren Heitner: "What helped you become one of the best professional poker players in the world? What is the main secret of your meteoric rise and why exactly did you manage to achieve such success where millions of others never achieve even a fraction of that in their entire lives? , what have you managed to achieve in just a few years?

Fedor Holtz: “The key success factor for me was my social circle. I think it’s a good idea to share your thoughts, conclusions and ideas with other people interested in this. With people who can understand you and benefit from your discoveries for themselves. Now I’m sharing some of your thoughts to you. Then you will share them with someone else, and this will happen further and in geometric progression. I believe that it is much better for everyone if you are surrounded by people with whom you can share your thoughts, conclusions and ideas. You "Share your thoughts, findings and ideas with those around you and get the same in return from your social circle. This is much more effective for you and allows you to reap greater benefits than if you try to benefit from your thoughts, findings and ideas on your own."

"Even now I spend a lot of time on forums communicating mostly with the same people. I share my thoughts with them and they share theirs in return. Everyone draws certain conclusions from this. We all started our journey with low limits. For It’s even a little surprising for me now to see how we have progressed together from this communication. Now we travel together and play in tournaments with the highest buy-ins. At the same time, we continue to communicate in the same way and share our thoughts, conclusions and ideas without only live, but also online."

Darren: “I understand that your main contacts in your social circle are Steffen Sontheimer, Rainer Kempe and Koray Aldemir. People, how does your total career winnings in live poker tournaments compare well with yours? "

Fedor: “No, not only. I still communicate on many forums. For example, Skype is my large database of contacts of completely different poker players. By and large, it all started with communication on Skype. My blog and the blogs of other poker players also played an important role for me. You write your own blog and share your thoughts about your game. Other people read it. You read the blogs of other poker players. Write comments on the blogs. Draw certain conclusions for yourself and establish closer contact with the players you consider enough smart and reasonable. You start communicating with them using, for example, Skype and already share with each other thoughts, conclusions and ideas about specific strategies."

Darren: " It seems that your social circle has helped you gain considerable benefit from communication. Now your financial situation is such that issues of personal security should play an important role for you. Don’t you think it’s time for you to limit your social circle and your personal space based on issues of financial security?”

Fedor: “It’s very sad for me to see how people limit themselves in everything, guided solely by issues of financial security. I am by nature a very sociable person. I have many fairly close people and friends with whom I continue to communicate as before. Having a good financial "Only one thing changed the situation for me. Money gave me complete freedom regarding the choice of my plans for further actions. I really like to be independent and not think about the financial component of what I plan to do."

Darren: "What freedom are you talking about?"

Fedor: " Previously, I could not afford such freedom of action as now. So in 2015 and 2016 I made almost 200 flights a year. During these two years, I never lived in one place for more than a week. For almost two years I just lived non-stop. I lived only by constantly playing and earning money."

"Now I can afford the tournament schedule that I want. I can now play a lot less live poker tournaments and focus a lot more on creating and running my own business, away from the poker table."

Darren: “You recently released your own mobile application “Primed Mind”, which, according to your statements, should help others achieve success by improving their thinking. As far as I understand, “Primed Mind” is quite universal and adapted to various situations. “Primed Mind” contains Quite a lot of functionality for various areas of application. Your application is quite in demand and over the past two months more than 20,000 people have downloaded it."

Fedor: “My global idea is to create an umbrella company that would help people in various situations, based on experience and knowledge taken from poker. Our first sign “Primed Mind” is a training application. It contains a knowledge base that helped me achieve success. The base that I have been successfully using in poker for about two years now.. "Primed Mind" has more than 100 different courses that are structured depending on the situation."

Darren:“So you think that mindset is always the determining factor? It turns out that you, a professional poker player, believe that success at the poker table requires much more skill, why?”

Fedor:"I think that live poker is very similar to trading in the stock market. The better a person understands how all financial instruments work, the easier it is for him to succeed in trading securities or stocks. If a person understands well the work of all financial instruments, then there will be no fluctuations in quotes he is not afraid and will still succeed.".

Darren: "How do you see the future of poker and its online format in particular?

Fedor:"I think that there is definitely a future for live poker. Live poker still has many prospects and options for development. But online poker has no future. Eventually there will come a time when poker will be completely solved by the computer. After that, online poker will not live long "It will just die. You can see for yourself how online play at high limits is slowly dying. A new "poker boom" may help for a while, but for this it is necessary that either the USA or China officially legalize online poker."

A popular question among poker players: how much time does Fedor devote to training? Holtz replied that he had always been serious about his studies. Theory takes up approximately 30-50% of poker time. The studies include: communication on the forum and video lectures. Among the training videos, the high roller recommended Run It Once, the channels Sauce123 and Phil Galfond. Fedor is also interested in solvers, which help him better understand the structure of the game.

How Holtz got into poker

The most common question poker pros hear is: “How did you decide to become a gambler and do you have a “backup” job?” Fedor patiently explained once again how he became interested in poker:

“It all started in 2011 with a home game with friends at micro-stakes. The next year I studied poker more diligently. I don't have a backup plan, I'm just desperate for the game."

How much does Fedor invest in high-stack?

One of the players asked Holtz a question that has long interested the poker community: how much money does Fedor invest on his own at high limits? Usually he is wary of questions about money, but on the Internet he decided to satisfy the curiosity of his colleagues:

“It depends on the tournament or my advantage over the field. Approximately 40-150 thousand dollars.”

The most difficult limit

Holtz spent the first two years of his poker career at micro-stakes. Then Fedor, due to his improved skill in discussing strategy on forums, switched to medium limits. Backers began to sponsor the poker player, and Holtz finished the next year and a half with a slight plus. For the last three years, Fedor has been riding high-stakes.

“The most difficult were the low and mid stakes. Instability to tilt, psychological and financial instability. To achieve the success we have had to spend a lot of energy and build the right environment.”

A player asked Fedor when in live poker it is better to fold, stay in the game, leave the table or run away:

“Fold when your opponents drink. Stay in the hand when they are looking at one point. Change the table when your opponents start to smell bad. Just run away very quickly!”

In the same comment thread, a poker player asked if Holtz was counting his stack at the table:

“I count and hide behind small chips about 10,000.”

The high roller named the most expensive closed cash game in which Fedor participated was a table with blinds of €4,000/€8,000.

Tels in live poker

The interlocutors asked the high roller whether he notices tells in an offline game and what gestures he considers the most telling.

“I take all gestures, facial expressions, and actions in live poker seriously. I think all players need to know their opponents' tells and adapt to them. I look at the eye movements, the breathing, the way the chips move into the pot, the sweat on my fingers and forehead. Emotions are also revealed by other body movements and changes in posture.”

The most common leak Holtz said was weak defense from the big blind.

Relation to MTT

In multi-table tournaments, Fedor always tries to maintain rational thinking in order to remain tilt-resistant and get closer to winning. Playing on MTT is very different from other formats, so consistent poker players have a huge advantage over their opponents, especially at the final table.

Holtz, in descending order, named the most important factors for a winning game on MTT: balance, reading hands and opponents' range, exploiting opponents, aggression and deception of opponents.

The Importance of Natural Abilities

In the comments, they asked how Fedor’s natural talent influences his success in poker, and what strategy he will choose for cash at low limits.

“My natural talents give me a 5.1% advantage over other players. But the abilities are not associated with poker skills or natural analytical thinking, but with the ability to learn and process a large amount of information. I don’t come up with strategies from scratch, but study what already exists.”

Holtz was asked to give some advice to players who want to become profitable regulars and make money playing poker. According to Fedor, it is important for beginners to make friends with strong poker players in order to discuss strategies and exchange opinions on hands. You need to develop in all directions: game analysis, tilt resistance, reading opponents, etc.

“I don't care how other players behave. I became emotionally distant even from my own gains and losses. I really don't care. It is also important to remain consistent in your strategy. None of this always works, but you have to stay true to your tactics.”

Fedor about other poker players

Poker players asked if Holtz would play heads-up with Isildur in a mixed poker game consisting of eight disciplines.

"Yes, if hold'em goes the first six hands."

Then Fedor was asked what kind of 9-mach final table he dreamed of.

“Four Phil Hellmuths before me, me, four Phil Hellmuths after me.”

Holtz never explained why he would like to play with eight Phil Hellmuth clones...

Relationship with cash games

Fedor called himself a tournament player who rarely plays cash games. Playing for cash is of interest to a poker player if the limits are very high and only familiar opponents participate. Holtz prefers cash games without antes. The strategy is almost no different from the tactics at tournaments, Fedor just skates with a stronger range.

Fedor Holtz is a more than familiar name in the poker world. In today's article we will talk about the biography of this young player.

Fedor Holz is a poker prodigy who succeeded at such a young age achieve great success. The young man quickly burst into the poker world and immediately loudly declared himself.

Biography

The future world poker star Fedor Holz was born on July 25, 1993 in Germany. The guy spent his entire childhood in this country. In 2013, at the age of 20, Fedor moved to the capital of Austria - Vienna. As a child, he was a very smart boy. His IQ was 155 - just a little short of being a genius. Now this figure has decreased - Fedor attributes this to age-related degradation.

Fedor Holtz loves giving interviews. In them, he said more than once that his family was not rich and they rarely had money. Poverty was compensated by strong cohesion and friendship. His father was a police officer and his mother a social worker. His parents constantly supported the guy and inspired him. Therefore, now, having earned a lot of money, Fedor helps his mother and father, as well as his sisters.

Holtz Fedor initially used poker as a tool for earning money. After his first big win, the talented poker player bought his parents a house in Germany. Thus, the guy’s childhood dream came true.

Carier start

At the age of 18, Fedor suddenly realized that he was not living the way he would like. Studying at the university did not bring pleasure to the guy. Two of his friends made good money playing cards and Holtz tried his luck.

Card The guy really liked the game. They began to pay attention to the young talent. A few months later, Fedor signed a backing contract with the organizer of professional tournaments, who noticed great potential in the young man. Fedor decided to start a professional career, so he dropped out of university.

At first, Fedor felt a lot of pressure and did not show positive results. At the end of the first year of his career, Fedor Holz was in a serious disadvantage. The guy's Bakker decided to rectify the situation and hired Fedora an experienced MTT coach. His name remains unknown. This move bore fruit - Holtz's game improved dramatically, and he began to win consistently. Another proof that good a mentor is an integral part of the career of a successful poker player.

Fedor Holz's first major success was his victory at the WCOOP 2014 online tournament, as a result of which the German increased his bank account by $1,300,000. A few days later, Fedor won the Sunday Full Tilt tournament - plus $38,000.

A series of successful performances made Fedor one of the leaders in the ranking of successful online players. In 2014 and 2015, he became the best at the end of the year.

Holtz Fedor began to perceive poker as the main source of income. Therefore, in 2015 I started performing offline. In his first year of playing at live tournaments, Fedor earned over $7,000,000.

2016 started with great success for Fedor. He won a high roller tournament in the Philippines, as a result of which he earned $3,463,000. In May 2016, Holtz went to Las Vegas, where a 2-month series of tournaments awaited him. First, Fedor Holz won the World Series high roller tournament. He received $5,000,000, as well as the first bracelet. A few days later there was second place in another high roller tournament - plus $3,500,000. This should include two more victories at AHR. Total prize money for 2016 - approx. $16,500,000.

Holtz has a WSOP bracelet, three PokerStars picks, and two WPT titles. Fedor achieved no less success online. At the moment, Fedor Holz has earned $23,000,000 from live tournaments and several million more online.

At the end of 2016 the guy announced his retirement. Now he enjoys life and plays for fun. That doesn't stop him from continuing to win.

The second main hobby in Fedor’s life after poker is traveling. Now that the guy has a lot of free time and money, he practically doesn’t sit at home. The German's greatest weakness is mountains. Fedor Holtz often posts videos on the Internet where he travels with family or friends.

Fedor has been interested in motivational psychology since childhood. It is with this aspect that the player associates success 2016. Recently, Holtz co-founded Prime with renowned psychologist Eliot Rowe. In the spring of 2017, the company released a mobile application to increase self-confidence - Primed Mind.

In 2016 Fedor entered the ranking of the richest poker players. He placed in 6th place and beat out such giants as Phil Hellmuth and Sam Trickett.

The world's leading players call the young German "a real phenomenon". Fedor Holz only confirms this with his biography - the player managed to break into the poker elite in a short period of time. There wasn't a single poker fan who didn't mention the German's name. In 2017, Holtz became the face of the Party Poker platform.

All we can do is continue to follow the talented German. His retirement is more like a temporary vacation. We are confident that Fedor will continue to perform at a high level for a long time and delight his fans.

Anyone can follow Holtz on Instagram and follow how the poker player spends his leisure time. There is a lot of interesting things there.

Fedor Holz is one of the greatest players of our time, who has shown that determination and constant self-development will definitely lead to success.

Alexey Borisov

Where to find:

Fedor's microblog on Twitter: https://twitter.com/crownupguy
Holtz's Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/fedoire/
CrownUpGuy streams on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/crownupguy
Holz on Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Holz

Interesting facts from the life of Fedor Holtz:

Parents named Fyodor in honor of Dostoevsky.
In 2015, he created an online game that tests poker intelligence. Fatima de Melo scored the most points, Daniel Negreanu came in second, and Liv Boeri came in third.

Short biography:

Fedor was born into a poor family and since childhood he dreamed of becoming rich in order to buy his parents a big house. At the age of 17, Holtz entered the university to study data processing. After six months of diligent study, Fedor passed the exams worst in the group, which is why he quit studying and went into poker.

During the first months, the young man constantly lost. To take a break from the Internet, Fedor and a friend went on a trip to Europe and South Africa. The friends made money by playing cash games and participating in small tournaments. The poker player returned home with a good bankroll and continued playing online at higher limits.

Holtz played online cash games and earned decent amounts of money until his opponents began to avoid him. Fedor changed discipline to MTT, where no one knew him. In 2014, the poker player gained popularity when he won WCOOP and earned $1,300,000 in prize money. But Holtz paid most of this money to shareholders.

After success online, the young man moved to live tournaments - he dreamed of getting a “real” poker champion title. In December 2015, he won the WPT tournament and earned $1,590,000. Three weeks later, Fedor became the first on WPTN and replenished his bankroll by $3,463,500.

Fedor's biggest victory occurred in July 2016. At the World Series High Roller, Holtz took first place and took home almost $5,000,000.

Fedor is helped online by training in GTO programs. But Holtz is afraid that in a few years, due to the abundance of poker programs, online gaming will be "solved" and will no longer be interesting. Now Fedor is more interested in live games, where mathematics is less important, but knowledge of psychology is needed.

Holtz believes that having reached the level of super high rollers and won bracelets in online and live play, he has nowhere to grow in poker. Fedor is tired of cards and is going to become an entrepreneur, leaving tournaments as a hobby.

Fyodor is upset - considered a brilliant child, with age he has lowered his IQ, and a task that was easily overcome in childhood is now difficult to solve. This is one of the reasons why Holtz wants to retire from poker at the height of his fame, when he was remembered as a successful super high roller.

Video:

WSOP ME 2015 – All Fedor Holz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Mdq1Auqjc
Fedor Holz runs like god in WSOP 2016 High Roller: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhcWrWkrngI
Fedor Holz All Hands WSOP 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3zx0PSFdyk
Fedor Holz vs Jason Mercier vs Brian Rast-Aussie Millions 2016 100k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xOhjP-8EeA
Guest Fedor Holz #6: Poker Life Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LviSnm3q_4