Fedor Holz Net Worth 2026: $30M-$35M, $50M Won & Two Bracelets

Fedor Holz’s net worth is commonly estimated at $30 million to $35 million. The German high roller holds $50,681,509 in live tournament earnings, two WSOP bracelets and five Triton titles. He stepped back from full-time poker at 23 and kept winning.

That headline figure covers live results only. The Hendon Mob records 142 cashes in total, of which 13 are online and sit outside the $50.68 million, including the whole of his second bracelet prize.

Every Fedor Holz net worth estimate in circulation is an outside guess. He was 23 when he announced he was stepping back, having just won $16 million in a single year, and he has kept winning titles in the decade since without ever going back to a full schedule.

Published estimates put Fedor Holz at $30 million to $35 million. He has never confirmed a figure, and no published estimate discloses a methodology. Treat every number on the subject, including this range, as an informed estimate.

Most of the estimates in circulation are career earnings wearing a different label. One widely repeated 2022 figure put him at around $32 million at the exact moment his live earnings stood at $32.5 million.

Every circulating estimate is anchored to older earnings data. All of them predate his current live total of $50,681,509, which is itself gross prize money rather than profit.

How much is Fedor Holz worth today?

The credible range runs from $30 million to $35 million. One weaker source puts the floor lower, and nothing above $35 million has been published. Holz himself has never given a number.

What can be stated with any confidence falls into three tiers.

That middle tier matters more here than on most profiles. The Hendon Mob logs 142 cashes for Holz but counts only 129 in his live total, so his second bracelet prize sits outside the headline number entirely.

Why live earnings do not equal net worth

Prize money is recorded before any of the costs that produce it. Holz has said he held a large piece of himself plus pieces of other players during his best year, so recorded winnings and actual profit diverge sharply.

The same gap shows up in the rankings. He sits 14th on the all-time money list against a best-ever rank of 4th, and was the GPI world number one in 2016 against 1,430th today.

A semi-retired player is being passed by active ones while still winning titles. Gross career prize money and current standing measure different things, and neither one is a bank balance.

Fedor Holz was born in Saarbrücken on 25 July 1993 and was studying informatics at university when poker took over. He dropped out. The decision looks obvious now, but in 2012 he had no live record at all.

His first recorded live cash came on 6 September 2012, a runner-up finish in a €500 Main Event in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, worth €15,320. It is the oldest of his 142 recorded cashes.

How did Fedor Holz start playing poker?

There is no verified account of how he learned. No public database records anything before that first live cash in September 2012, so his early volume, stakes and route into the game are all undocumented. What is certain is that he was at university, and left.

The climb from that first cash to the nosebleeds took three years and ran through online poker as much as live rooms.

Those yearly totals combine live and online cashes recorded in the same database. They are not a live-only ramp, and they exclude whatever he was earning in games that were never tracked.

By the end of 2015 he had recorded roughly $3.8 million in cashes, three years into a career that began with a €500 buy-in. The following year he won more than four times that total.

Holz played online as CrownUpGuy, first on PokerStars and later on GGPoker. PocketFives named him the best online multi-table tournament player of both 2014 and 2015, the two years either side of his live breakthrough.

Those were year-end awards rather than a permanent throne. A mid-2015 snapshot has him ninth in the world with $2.8 million in tracked online cashes, 19 tracked wins and 39 top-three finishes.

What is Fedor Holz’s online screen name?

He played as CrownUpGuy on PokerStars and then GGPoker, and PocketFives ranked him the best online MTT player of 2014 and of 2015. Other aliases circulate online but none can be verified from a primary source.

His defining online result came in September 2014, when he won the WCOOP Main Event on PokerStars.

The listed first prize was cut by a six-handed deal struck on ICM numbers, which is why the figure on his record is lower than the one the tournament advertised.

The final hand was brutal. Holz held 10♥ 10♣ for quad tens against Martins holding 4♣ 4♥ for fours full of tens, a cooler that ended the tournament.

That WCOOP title sits outside his live earnings entirely, as do most of the results below. Online poker and live poker are tracked in separate places.

Two years later he went close again in the same series, finishing runner-up in the $102,000 Super High Roller after a heads-up chop with bencb789. He has never won a SCOOP title, though he did final-table a Big Antes event.

The 2021 challenge against Wiktor “limitless” Malinowski was the one that drew a crowd, and the Face-Off challenge he won as underdog is still one of his best-known results. Four sessions of at least 400 hands ran at $100/$200 on GGPoker, streamed with Joey Ingram on commentary.

He was the betting underdog going in, which made the result the more remarkable of the two heads-up challenges he played that year.

His second bracelet was won online too, four years later, and it remains the largest of the 13 online cashes recorded against his name. The tournament career section covers it in full.

Those 13 cashes total $1,501,470, which covers tracked database activity only and is not a career online total. Far larger figures circulate, none of them reconcilable with each other, so no such total appears here. See more online poker legends profiled for the wider online era.

Holz has 129 live cashes worth $50,681,509, and a disproportionate share of it arrived in one 18-month burst. His top 13 results run from a $6,000,000 runner-up finish down to a seven-figure score at the PCA.

The 2018 One Drop remains his biggest single payday. He took $6,000,000 for second in the $1,000,000 buy-in event, more than he earned from either bracelet. The title went to One Drop conqueror Justin Bonomo.

The 2016 total is the one that made his name.

How much did Fedor Holz win in 2016?

He recorded 24 cashes and six wins in 2016 for $16,093,400. At the time it was the third-highest single year in poker history, behind Antonio Esfandiari in 2012 and Dan Colman in 2014. That figure is recorded prize money and not profit.

The six wins were Triton Philippines, three Aria high rollers, the One Drop bracelet and the EPT Barcelona Super High Roller. He took all three Aria titles inside three weeks that June, immediately before the bracelet run.

Two separate records came out of that year and they are routinely confused. He reached GPI world number one in June 2016 and held it for 30 weeks until David Peters replaced him.

Along the way he passed Steve O’Dwyer’s 22-week longevity mark at 23 straight weeks. By week 28 it was the longest number-one run since the rankings began in 2011.

How many WSOP bracelets does Fedor Holz have?

He has two bracelets. The first came in the 2016 $111,111 High Roller for One Drop at the Rio, Event #67, where he beat a 183-entry field for $4,981,775 on 8 July. He has never won the Main Event, which has its own list of champions since 1970.

The second was won online four years later, in the 2020 WSOP Online $25,000 Heads-Up for $1,077,250. There has been no third since. That online prize sits outside his live earnings total.

His best Main Event finish is 25th in 2015 for $262,574, and his best result in a bracelet event outside the One Drop is third in the 2015 $10,000 Six-Handed Championship for $268,463. Spanish high roller Adrian Mateos cashed 11th in that same One Drop.

His strongest recent WSOP showing came at Paradise in December 2024. He finished third in the $100,000 Triton Main Event for $1,830,000 and sixth in the $50,000 High Roller for $352,210.

Those totals combine live and online cashes. The blank where 2019 should be is the clearest evidence of the step-back: not a single recorded cash in twelve months.

2018 reads stranger still. Three cashes for $6,245,765, almost all of it the One Drop runner-up. Efficiency rather than volume.

Why Triton became his best circuit

Triton is where he has done his most consistent damage: $21,559,143 across 33 cashes with five titles. He won the first two Triton events he ever entered. Only Triton title record holder Jason Koon has won more.

The 2023 London title ended a six-year drought in live high rollers. Jeju followed in March 2024, where he beat Seth Gottlieb heads-up from a record 269 entries, pocket jacks holding against queen-ten.

Holz built his game in the high roller era, where fields are small, opponents are elite and aggression has to be earned rather than assumed. His edge came from preparation off the table as much as decisions at it.

He has been blunt about what cost him most. Tilt, in his own words, is probably the single most expensive thing in poker, and he lost a lot of money to it before he learned to manage it.

That focus on mindset is not a side interest. It later became a business, which is unusual among players of his generation. Our guide to why the mental game decides results covers the same ground.

How Fedor Holz approaches study

He is equally direct about how study habits changed. He describes an era shift from roughly five per cent theory and 95 per cent playing to something closer to 30/70.

Asked what he would do differently, he has said he would study about a third of the time if starting over. That is a striking answer from someone whose results came during the earlier ratio. The balance depends on where solvers help and where they stop.

Who did Fedor Holz learn with?

He has never framed his success as solo work. He credits the group he played alongside on Cherry Island, naming Steffen Sontheimer in particular.

The wider German cohort of that period included Rainer Kempe and Christoph Vogelsang, all pushing each other through the same high roller circuit at the same time.

Holz has spent as much public energy on the integrity of the games as on winning them. The clearest example came in December 2021, and it cost him nothing to stay quiet about.

He publicly accused two Brazilian high-stakes regulars, Rodrigo “selouan1991” Selouan and Rodrigo “seijistar1” Seiji, of colluding at a $1,050 WPT final table on 888poker.

He posted a single hand as evidence on X and noted the pair appeared unaware the stream was showing hole cards. Justin Bonomo publicly called for sanctions.

Offering one hand rather than a dossier was a deliberate choice. It let others judge the evidence rather than asking them to take his word for it. We covered the collusion ring he exposed publicly at the time.

The solver and RTA problem

He has also gone after a less visible problem. Holz called out GTO solver companies for profiting from real-time assistance tools, software that feeds players solver output mid-hand.

That is a pointed target for someone whose own training business sells solver-based study. The distinction he draws is between studying away from the table and receiving help at it. It sits among the scandals that reshaped online poker.

GGPoker made the role official in 2024, appointing him Poker Integrity Ambassador after Jason Koon parted ways with the site. He held it until his ambassador deal ended in March 2026.

Not everything off the felt has been so serious. In 2017 he fronted a poker-themed clothing line as its tournament face, alongside a fellow high roller as its cash game face. The hoodie campaign with Patrik Antonius is the detail people remember.

Stepping back from a full schedule at 23 did not mean stepping away. Holz built three businesses in the decade that followed, and the first of them is now among the better-known training sites in poker.

Pokercode launched as a training site co-founded with Matthias Eibinger, Austria’s all-time money list leader. It was still operating in July 2026.

Holz remains CEO, though day-to-day management passed to Hannes Neurauter and his team, announced by Holz himself. His MTT Masterclass is the flagship course.

The coaching bench matters more than the founder’s name. Steffen Sontheimer leads the cash game course and Simon Rønnow is the standout supporting coach, across a library of more than 700 video lessons. See our full Pokercode training review for the detail.

The Grindhouse study project launched in 2020 and runs as coaching retreats, including a ten-day trip to the Alps and advanced bootcamps in Velden, Austria.

Mario Mosböck came through the first cohort. He is now a Triton ambassador with four Triton titles, having won at Montenegro in 2026 in the first all-ambassador heads-up final in series history.

Holz also won at his own event. He took the €1,000 Pokercode Masters at the Pokercode Festival in Madrid on 15 April 2023 for €25,000. He also ran a public staking thread in his early years, so how staking deals actually work is familiar territory.

What is Primed Mind?

Primed Mind is the mindset app, and its origin explains the tilt material above. It began in 2015 when Holz started working with mindset coach Elliot Roe, and launched in 2017.

It came out of the Vienna-based investment group he founded that same year, shortly after stepping back. Holz describes himself as CEO and co-founder. Launch pricing was $14.99 a month and the app reported more than 50,000 users inside six months.

The third venture is the newest and the least public. On 8 March 2026 he announced an investment fund as his new full focus, and no further detail has been made public since.

The chess connection

One collaboration says more about him than any of the three. In 2021 he agreed a skills swap with chess streamer Qiyu “Nemo” Zhou, poker coaching traded for chess lessons, after dropping into her stream. We covered the chess lessons he swapped for poker.

Zhou later described the arrangement publicly. The WPT subsequently offered her a live cash game seat, which is a fair measure of where that swap led. chess and poker streamer Alexandra Botez plays both games at a high level too.

The short answer is that Holz still plays, just rarely and only where he wants to. Reports of his exit from poker have been overstated more than once, most recently in March 2026.

On 8 March 2026 he announced he would not renew his GGPoker ambassador role after six years. He cited trying for children that year and launching an investment fund as his focus.

Several outlets read that as retirement. One headline had him retiring at 32, and a rival URL still carries the phrase in its slug. We reported the end of his six-year GGPoker deal without the framing.

He won a Triton title ten weeks later.

Is Fedor Holz retired from poker?

No. He has never announced a retirement from poker. The March 2026 news was the end of a sponsorship deal, not a career, and he won the $40,000 Mystery Bounty at Triton Montenegro that May for $528,811.

He first signalled a step back in late 2016, aged 23, telling reporters even before the One Drop final that he would probably never play a full WSOP schedule again. He has been as good as his word for a decade.

Does Fedor Holz still play for GGPoker?

No. He confirmed on 8 March 2026 that he would not renew after six years, which ended the arrangement. No new room deal has been confirmed since.

This was not a team collapse. Daniel Negreanu re-signed with the site in late 2025, so the departure was Holz choosing his own direction rather than a site losing its bench. longtime GGPoker signing Daniel Negreanu is still there.

His playing schedule is now precise rather than reduced. He told Triton after the Montenegro win that this is the series he plays once or twice a year, and called it the best there is. That cadence points to the Jeju stop that follows.

The 2026 record backs that up exactly. Two live cashes, both at Triton Montenegro: the Mystery Bounty win on 16 May and 17th in the $30,000 8-Handed the day before for $56,000.

2025 followed the same shape without a win. Six cashes for $2,302,000 across Triton Jeju and Triton Montenegro, the best a fifth-place finish in the $25,000 WPT Global Slam for $529,000.

Two Triton stops a year, a training business he still chairs, a mindset app and a new fund. For a player who was world number one at 23, that is a deliberately narrow schedule, and it is still producing titles. Browse the rest of our player profiles.

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How we handle ‘net worth’

We do not treat any net worth figure as fact. Third-party estimates are reported with their source and caveats. Where no credible methodology is disclosed, we say so.

Holz’s $30M to $35M range comes from published estimates that name no method. We present it as an estimate, not a confirmed figure, and his equity in Pokercode, Primed Mind and the investment fund stays outside it.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings figures come from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live results only. Databases that also fold in online results publish higher totals, and we say so rather than blending the two.

Holz is a clear case: 142 recorded cashes, 129 of them live. His 2020 online bracelet prize sits outside the $50,681,509 headline figure. All figures are gross payouts before buy-ins, staking splits, taxes and expenses.

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