Career
Prior to playing poker professionally, Hollink played tennis, football (soccer) and basketball 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 pokerpro.
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) Rob also made the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha tournament at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
In no limit hold"em events, Rob has finished in the money of two World Poker Tour (WPT) events: 12th in the 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. In 2010 his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,100,000.
His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $890,659 of those winnings. Since 2007, Rob Hollink has been a poker-instructor at www.nederpoker.com World Series of Poker bracelets casino casino casino casino.