Fedor ‘CrownUpGuy’ Holz Wins 2014 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker Main Event

A total of 2,142 players turned out for the $5,200 no-limit hold’em main event of the 2014 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. The event featured a $10 million prize pool, which was easily surpassed. In the end the large turnout built a $10,710,000 prize pool, the largest the event has seen since poker’s ‘Black Friday’ in 2011.

From the massive field there could emerge only one champion, and in the end that player was 21-year-old Austrian poker pro Fedor ‘CrownUpGuy’ Holz. Holz held the chip lead when the final six players made a deal, guaranteeing him at least $1.1 million. He picked up another $200,000 that was set aside in the chop for the eventual champion, bringing his total payday to $1.3 million.

“I always wanted to run deep in such a tournament and it feels amazing to win the biggest tournament of the year," Holz told the PokerStars Blog just after coming out on top. "It’s my biggest achievement so far and I can’t put in words how happy I am.”

Holz topped a tough final table with plenty of notable opponents, including Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom (9th – $107,100), Dylan ‘Pokerl)eviL’ Hortin (7th – $214,200), Faraz ‘The-Toilet 0’ Jaka (5th – $945,000) and Elior ‘Crazy Elior’ Sion (4th – $780,228).

Here is a look at the payouts awarded at this final table:

*Part of six-way deal

The 2014 WCOOP featured 66 events in total, with $61,934,886 in total prize money awarded throughout the series, the third most in the history of the online festival.

Notable performances during the series included wins from big names like David ‘WhooooKidd’ Baker, Marco “NoraFlum” Johnson, Adam ‘Roothless’ Levy, Sami ‘Lrslzk’ Kelopuro, Joep ‘Pappe_Ruk’ van den Bijgaart, Paul ‘paulgees81’ Volpe, and Jani ‘kiiski’ Vilmunen.

There were also three double-event winners throught the series: ‘Aggro Santos’, ‘Assad91’ and ‘WhatIfGod’.

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