Rob Hollink (born 27 March 1962 in

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, Netherlands) is a professional

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player based in

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. He has won both a European Poker Tour (EPT) title and

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, becoming the first person from the Netherlands to do so, first was at the EPT's inaugural Grand Final of the European Poker Tour in

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in 2005 and then he won his first bracelet at the

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in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship, becoming the first Dutch bracelet winner.

Before poker

Prior to playing poker professionally, Hollink played

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and

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when he was a kid, but injuries prevented his career from progressing as far as he wanted. Rob Hollink has been a professional gambler since 1985. After winning a poker-tournament in Paris in 2001, Hollink decided to stop playing black-jack and roulette and proceeded as a poker professional.

Poker career

His numerous Omaha tournament wins include: * HFl 400 Pot Limit Omaha at the Master Classics of Poker 2001,

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- HFl 90,763 ($37,187) * €500 Pot Limit Omaha at the Austrian Masters 2002,

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- €25,220 ($23,523) * €3,000 Pot Limit Omaha at the Euro Finals of Poker 2003,

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- €122,440 ($131,798) * €250 Pot Limit Omaha at the

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2004,

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- €23,000 ($27,855) Rob also made the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha tournament at the

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(WSOP). On 7 August 2003 the opening event of the 2003 World Championship of Online Poker, a $109 buy-in heads up No Limit tournament, was won by Hollink for a $12,800 first prize, using the screen name 'batoelrob.' In no limit hold'em events, Rob has finished in the money of two

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(WPT) events: * 12th in the Grand Prix de Paris 2004 - €19,000 ($23,167) * 5th in the Season 3 WPT Championship - $377,420 One of his greatest wins was defeating the 211 player field at the €10,000 European Poker Tour Grand Final in

, where he took home the €635,000 ($845,190) grand prize. Fellow Dutch poker player

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had tipped him to win the event shortly before. In 2005, Hollink won 4 tournaments, he won the European tournament performance of the year and was also chosen as European poker player of the year In June 2008, Rob Hollink won the $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, earning $496,931. Since 2001, Rob Hollink won 14 tournaments out of 44 final tables in live poker-tournaments. Since 2007, Rob Hollink has been a poker-instructor at www.nederpoker.com In 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,100,000. His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $890,659 of those winnings.World Series of Poker Earnings
, worldseriesofpoker.com

World Series of Poker bracelets

References

External links

World Poker Tour profile

Hendon Mob tournament results
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hollink, Rob 1962 births Dutch poker players European Poker Tour winners Living people Sportspeople from Enschede World Series of Poker bracelet winners