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Top 10 Stories of 2016, #2: Once-In-a-Lifetime Heater for Fedor Holz

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It had already been the run of a lifetime for Fedor Holz.

It was early July of this year. Not long before he had punctuated 2015 with a victory in the $100,000 World Poker Tour Alpha8 Las Vegas, earning a first prize of $1,589,219 after besting a star-studded 45-entry field.