Rob Hollink

Rob Hollink

infobox poker player
firstname=Rob
lastname=Hollink
nickname=


caption=Hollink after winning the $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship at the 2008 WSOP.
hometown=Groningen
wsop bracelet count=1
wsop money finishes=20
wsop main event best finish rank=193rd
wsop main event best finish year=2004
multi-year wsop winner=
wpt titles="None"
wpt final tables=1
wpt money finishes=2
ept titles=1
ept final tables=1
ept money finishes=3

Rob Hollink (born March 27 1962 in Enschede, The Netherlands) is a professional poker player based in Groningen. He has won both a European Poker Tour (EPT) title and World Series of Poker bracelet, 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 Monte Carlo in 2005 and then he won his first bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em World Championship [ cite web|url=http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/4447/wsop-rob-hollink-wins-event-no-30 |title=WSOP: Rob Hollink Wins Event No. 30 |accessdate=2008-06-18 |last=Lucchesi |first=Ryan |date=2008-06-18 |publisher=CardPlayer.com ] , becoming the first and as of 2008 only Dutch bracelet winner.

Before poker

Prior to playing poker professionally, Hollink played tennis, football (soccer) and basketball, but injuries prevented his career from progressing as far as he wanted.

Poker career

His numerous Omaha tournament wins include:
* HFl 400 Pot Limit Omaha at the Master Classics of Poker 2001, Amsterdam - HFl 90,763 ($37,187)
* €500 Pot Limit Omaha at the Austrian Masters 2002, Vienna - €25,220 ($23,523)
* €3,000 Pot Limit Omaha at the Euro Finals of Poker 2003, Paris - €122,440 ($131,798)
* €250 Pot Limit Omaha at the World Heads-Up Poker Championship 2004, Barcelona - €23,000 ($27,855) cite web|url=http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=262 |title=Rob Hollink - Results |accessdate=2008-06-18 |last=Butt |first=Robert |publisher=TheHendonMob.com ]

Rob also made the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha tournament at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP). In total he has made 17 money finishes at the WSOP.

In no limit hold'em events, Rob has finished in the money of two World Poker Tour (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 Monte Carlo, where he took home the €635,000 ($845,190) grand prize. Fellow Dutch poker player Marcel Lüske had tipped him to win the event shortly before.Fact|date=June 2008

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.

In 2008 his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,800,000.

World Series of Poker bracelets

Notes

External links

* [http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/rob-hollink/ Official site]
* [http://www.worldpokertour.com/players/?x=profile&id=2462 World Poker Tour profile]
* [http://www.pokerineurope.com/pokerarticles/detail.php?articleid=869 Rob's Freeroll Huge Success]
* [http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=262 Hendon Mob tournament results]


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