Fedor Holz Loses €53,000 In Heads Up Challenge vs ChaoRen
Fedor Holz lost his pole position the RunItOnce 2020 Legends Showdown this week after suffering a €53,000 thumping from Swedish online beast Mikael ChaoRen160 Thuritz…
By: Andrew Burnett
The pair are part of a six-player battle royale fighting it out on Phil Galfond’s poker room for a €40,000 bonus prize and bragging rights, the €50/€100 HUNL matches offering plenty of opportunities to cash in for the best of the bunch.
Holz had opened the first of his three 1st round matches with a healthy win over Kevin 'krab42' Rabichow, the German former wunderkind taking close to €50k with a late burst in the 750-hand match-up.
Thuritz, meanwhile, had chucked almost €30k against Pauli 'Filismies' Ayras in his opener, with an ill-advised triple-barrel bluff accounting for most of that towards the end of their pairing.
Yesterday saw Holz and Thuritz square off, the German certain to proceed to the semi-finals if he won, with his Swedish opponent out of the race if he lost.
Thuritz got out to an early lead, with hands like this one…Holz snap-calling the river only to see the bad news in a €28k pot.
♠ ♣ ♥ ♦
Thuritz: A♦ J♦
Holz: 5♠ 6♠
Flop: 5♥ 7♠ A♥
Turn: J♠
River: 6♦
The match see-sawed its way through 600 hands until Thuritz blitzed away to a more than comfortable victory over the last 150 hands, his eventual €53k win launching himself into 2nd position behind runaway leader Ayras.
Holz now finds himself battling to avoid elimination if he can’t produce a final round result – the top four going through to the semi-final play-offs.
Current standings:
|
Pauli Filismies Ayras |
+2 |
+€64,916 |
|
Mikael ChaoRen160 Thuritz |
+1 -1 |
+€23,870 |
|
Fedor CrownUpGuy Holz |
+1 -1 |
-€3,971 |
|
Kevin krab42 Rabichow |
+1 -1 |
-€13,172 |
|
Bjorn AsianFlushie Li |
+1 -1 |
-€34,668 |
|
Makeboifin |
-2 |
-€36,974 |