Rob Hollink is a 46 years old professional poker player. He was born on March 27th, 1962 in Enschede, Netherlands and currently resides in Groningen, Netherlands. Rob Hollink is currently divorced with three children. Rob Hollink used to be a professional athlete, playing a variety of sports, including tennis, soccer and basketball. Back in the days, he used to study mathematics and economics, which truly helped him improve his poker skills. After a major injury that prevented him from playing sports anymore, Rob Hollink started playing poker, and now he has 20 years of experience behind his back.
Rob Hollink is the first Dutchman to ever win the European Poker Tour and the WSOP 2008 Gold Bracelet, taking down the $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em event . Rob Hollink prevailed upon 218 players in order to win his first WSOP bracelet and $496,931 in cash. He achieved his first big victory in the 2005 European Poker Tour Grand Final, where he earned $845,000. Rob Hollink is regarded as a very successful player through the Omaha and Hold’Em tournaments, as he achieved victories in Birmingham, Austria, Amsterdam and Paris. Rob Hollink can be found at the Full Tilt Poker site, playing online along with other poker pro’s. Rob Hollink has been coming to the WSOP Tournaments since 2004, but as he said, he did poorly there, just as on another 80-90 events. But pro is a pro and Rob Hollink stands by his motto: “The longer you wait the better it feels”. Altogether the professional poker player has participated in countless number of tournaments, the latest of which was on Jun 15th,2008 at the 39th World Series of Poker 2008 - Event #30 - WSOP Limit Hold'em World Championship, where he once again placed 1st and won $496,931.
With a total of 61 cashes and 16 first place finishes, Rob Hollink had earned almost three million dollars throughout his whole professional poker career and has participated in more than 65 live tournaments.
Top 5 achievements:
Grand Final Event – EPT/Pokerstars Season 1 – 1st place - $851,903
39th World Series Of Poker 2008 Event #30 – 1st place - &496,931
Five-Star World Poker Classic – WPT Championship Season 3 – 5th place - $377,420
Five-Star World Poker Classic – WPT Championship Season 4 – 1st place - $204,815
Euro Finals Of Poker WPT Event Season 1 - 1st place - $160,210