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 poker professional.
Holllink made the final table of the Pot Limit Omaha tournament at the 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP), finishing in eighth place.[7]
On 7 August 2003 the opening event of the 2003 World Championship of Online Poker, a $109 buy-in heads up No Limit tournament, was won by Hollink for a $12,800 first prize, using the screen name 'batoelrob.'[8][9]
12th in the Grand Prix de Paris 2004 - €19,000 ($23,167)[10]
5th in the Season 3 WPT Championship - $377,420[11]
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.[12]
In 2005, Hollink won 4 tournaments, he won the European tournament performance of the year and was also chosen as European poker player of the year
In June 2008, Rob Hollink won the $10,000 World Championship Limit Hold'em at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, earning $496,931.[13]
In 2010, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,100,000.[2] His 24 cashes at the WSOP account for $890,659 of those winnings.[14]
