Rob Hollink

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**Rob Hollink**
Rob Hollink in the World Poker Tour season 3 championship
Nickname(s)	None
Hometown	Groningen, The Netherlands
World Series of Poker
Bracelet(s)	None
Money finishes	12
Highest ITM main event finish	193rd (2004)
World Poker Tour
Titles	None
Final tables	1
Money Finishes	2
European Poker Tour
Titles	1
Final tables	1
Money finishes	2

Rob Hollink (born March 27, 1962 in Enschede, The Netherlands) is a professional poker player based in Groningen.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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)

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 9 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

However, his greatest win as of 2005 is 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.

Hollink has three children.

As of 2006 his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,200,000.