Fedor Holz Wins Triton London $25,000 Seven-Max Event

Fedor Holz emerged victorious within the 2023 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London $25,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em seven max occasion, securing his third title on the high-stakes-centric tour. The 30-year-old German participant has now cashed for over $10.8 million throughout 11 Triton scores, or roughly 1 / 4 of his whole profession event earnings of greater than $41 million.

Holz stays in tenth place on poker’s all-time cash record after this victory, placing a little bit of house between him and Eleventh-ranked Isaac Haxton ($40.1 million).

“I think it gives a lot of confidence if you win a tournament,” Holz instructed Triton reporters after popping out on prime. “I think you just believe more in your decision-making, so I’m super excited for the rest of the week. I think I’ll have a lot of fun.”

This newest victory noticed Holz outlast a discipline of 120 entries to earn the trophy and the highest payout of $609,853. He was additionally awarded 924 Card Player Player of the Year factors for the win. This was his fourth final-table end of the 12 months, together with two deep runs in sizable $100,000 buy-in fields. With 2,254 factors and greater than $2.7 million in to-date POY earnings, Holz has climbed to 82nd place within the 2023 POY race standing introduced by Global Poker.

This occasion lasted two days. By the top of the primary, solely 27 remained from the sphere of 120 entries that turned out to the JW Marriott Grosvenor House in London. Plenty of huge names hit the rail on the street to the ultimate desk, together with seven-time Triton champion Jason Koon (18th), two-time Triton winner Michael Soyza (14th), bracelet winner Ben Heath (twelfth), and three-time bracelet winner Yuri Dzivielevski (tenth).

Holz had separated himself from the remainder of the pack by the point the ultimate desk was set, sitting with greater than twice as many chips as the subsequent largest stack. Tobias Schwecht bowed out in eighth place ($93,000) to slim the sphere to seven. Then, Roman Hrabec’s (seventh – $126,000) A-3 was outrun by the Ok-Q suited of Bruno Volkmann.

Renat Bohdanov was the subsequent to fall. He shoved from the button with Ok-6 suited and bumped into the A-Q of Chris Brewer within the small blind. Brewer’s hand-held and he continued his climb up the leaderboard, whereas Bohdanov settled for $168,000 because the sixth-place finisher.

Danilo Velasevic was the clear brief stack when six-handed motion started. He referred to as off with A-3 suited going through a button shove from Brewer, who had been trying to push across the brief stacks with 10-8 suited. Brewer flopped a ten and held from there to get rid of Velasevic in fifth place ($214,50).

Bracelet winner Brian Kim’s run concluded when his Ok-9 clashed with the A-J of a surging Volkmann. The Brazilian flopped a full home and Kim was despatched residence with $267,000 for his efforts. Holz, who has slid misplaced the lead throughout short-handed play, doubled via Volkmann to modify up the dynamic. Volkmann’s closing hand noticed his 9-8 suited run into the Q-9 of Brewer. Neither participant improved and Volkmann was knocked out in third place, incomes $324,000 for his efforts.

With that, Brewer took roughly a 7:5 chip lead into heads-up play. The closing two made a deal that redistributed the remaining prize pool extra evenly, leaving $40,000 and the title to play for. Holz gained an enormous flip with A-6 outracing pocket fours to take a decisive lead. In the ultimate hand, all the chips went in with Holz holding Q10 on a J92 flop. Brewer had OkJ for prime pair, however needed to fade various outs. The 3 flip saved Brewer forward, however the 8 on the top gave Holz a queen-high straight for the win.

Brewer earned $600,647 as per the deal he negotiated. This was his sixteenth final-table end of the 12 months, with 5 titles and practically $9.6 million gained alongside the way in which. With 6,457 whole factors, Brewer is now sitting in fourth place within the 2023 POY standings.

Here is a have a look at the payouts and POY factors awarded on the closing desk:

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