Two tales of excellence from the dirt track at PokerStars with Fedor Holz winning the opening event of the High Roller Series, and Paul Vas Nunes winning the Sunday Million for the second time. 

In a week when an unidentified online poker player posted a graph showing $7.4m in online poker winnings, earned over a five year period, without ever really working on my game outside of the tables, Fedor Holz reminded us that cumicon isn’t the only enigma in poker.

While cumicon is an inspiration to the serial procrastinators and lazy bastards in the world, Holz is the complete opposite. The German star, who has earned $26.5m in live tournament earnings in the same timeframe, has developed a worth ethic that’s smarter than anyone has ever created before, and at a time when people tell you the game is harder than ever to beat.

For now, unless you are a close confidant of Holz, the tinted windows on the tricks of his trade hide the secrets. All we can do is peer into his world hoping for a scrap of something.