On the first weekend of April, Fedor Holz (pictured), who is known on PocketFives as CrownUpGuy, took down the PokerStars Sunday 500 for an even $75,000 after a heads-up chop. The tournament paid out nearly a half-million dollars and Holz, who calls Austria home, continued a tradition of an early morning breakfast after big poker wins. Let’s check out what he had to say.

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“It felt great,” Holz said of his win in the weekly $530 poker tournament on the largest site in the world. “I was playing really focused the whole time andI think it’s my first big win where I am really proud of the way I played.” There were 990 entrants and Holz recorded his second largest tracked score to date, trailing only a $142,000 haul for winning an FTOPS event last year.

Holz entered the final table as the chip leader and “played really aggressively because no one played back.” He added, “Four-handed and five-handed, they had big ICM issues, so I played even more aggressively. I lost the lead three-handed where I folded against a tighter regular. I ended up heads-up against him, felt I played my A-game, and finally took it down.”

Following his win, he continued a breakfast tradition. He relayed, “I went to have breakfast with my roommates. It’s kind of a tradition for us. We’ve had a couple of really good Sundays in the last few months and every time afterwards, we went to a little cafe here in Vienna and had breakfast on the Monday morning after the nice scores. I have a stable too, so if a stakee won something big, that counted too.”

He has $622,000 in tracked scores in his profile, a number we’d expect to blossom in the near future, and started playing small-stakes cash games and tournaments three years ago. He transitioned into Stud, where he said he was quite successful, before going back to tournaments after Black Friday.

On his overall philosophy in life and poker, Holz posted in a blog on Two Plus Two, “You never know what’s best for you and you never will, but you have to change your life if you don’t feel right. Never let yourself down and give yourself a shot to reach things you would never have dreamed of.” Among his projects at the time was donating five-figures to charity, matching donations from fellow players.

Nowadays, Holz has built up a stable of players and told PocketFives, “I still have a big passion for the game, so I try to play as much as possible. I can’t play in Las Vegas yet, but I am going to stay at a nice house in Canada for the next six weeks with 10 other high-stakes players. While there, I plan to improve my Mixed Game skills in order to win a SCOOP bracelet somehow. Later this year, I will spend two months in South America for the World Cup. I’ll also travel around and will be back home for the next EPT season.”

He wanted to send shout outs to Team GatsbyKempinho and his stable: “These guys are the reason why I am still chasing my dream the way I am. I have big plans for the future and hope we can share even more great experiences. Special thanks to Rainerfor being so supportive.”

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