Shortly after GGPoker signed Bertrand Grospellier as its brand ambassador, one of the most prominent online poker rooms and networks globally, GGPoker has announced that Fedor Holz will also become the brand’s ambassador. Fedor Holz is a well-established and well-respected name in the world of poker games.
This twenty-six-year-old German professional poker player known by his nickname CrownUpGuys holds one World Series of Poker bracelet. Fedor Holz was born in Saarbrücken and ever since emerging on the professional poker scene, he has remained focused on playing high roller poker tournaments. He was ranked as the best online player by Pocketfives.com back in 2014 and 2015. Back in July of 2016, he won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the High Roller For One Drop $111,111 event where he won almost $5 million.
Fedor Holz’s Career as a Professional Player
Fedor Holz had his very first live cash eight years ago at the No Limit Hold’em €500 event of the GPT II Deepstack Series Main Event where he was second-placed and earned around €15,320. Holz is also a well-known name in the world of online poker gaming where he plays under his nickname CrownUpGuy. Speaking of its online presence, back in September of 2014, he was crowned the winner of the World Championship of Online Poker.
One year later, Fedor Holz finished twenty-fifth in the Main Event of the World Series of Poker where he cached around $262,574. Two years later in 2016, Fedor Holz was crowned the winner of the Triton Super High Roller event for $3,463,500. That same year, he was runner up in the iconic Super High Roller Bowl where he cashed out $3,500,000. He earned his biggest cash prize in a single event in 2018 at the No Limit Hold’em The Big One for One Drop $ 1,000,000 event where he cashed out around $6 million.
As estimated in March of this year, this young professional poker player is first on the all-time list of German poker players with winnings from live poker tournaments that go over $32 million. He is also eight-placed on the all-time money list thanks to its outstanding earnings. Some of his most recent caches include winning $5,500 at the $1,100 No Limit Hold’em Caribbean Poker Party 2018, winning $67,500 at the $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond Classic and winning $85,000 at the Bellagio High Roller 14 2017 Bellagio High Roller Series.
GGPoker Working Alongside Pokercode
When it comes to GGPoker naming Fedor Holz as its brand ambassador, under the terms and conditions of this business deal, GGPoker will be also working alongside Pokercode. This poker community is led by Fedor Holz as well as several other professional poker players including Matthias Eibinger. Moreover, as part of this partnership deal, Pokercode joins the growing network of GGPoker business partners.
Commenting on signing the new business deal, Jean-Christophe Antoine who works for GGPoker said that GGPoker is delighted to welcome Fedor Holz to the company’s growing team. He also added that GGPoker could not be any happier for welcoming the Pokercode community to its team as well. On his part, Fedor Holz said that he is delighted to start working with one of the most prominent brands of this kind.
The announcement of Fedor Holz joining GGPoker as its ambassador came shortly after GGPoker launched its World Series of Poker Super Circuit Online Series which is a brand new series for the World Series of Poker coming at these challenging times when players are asked to practice social distancing due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
