Govert ‘montecarlo13’ Metaal

Dutchman Govert Metaal has been a professional poker player and sports bettor for over a decade. With more than $2,400,000 in live tournament earnings since his first recorded cash in 2007, his results show that he excels in high roller tournaments. All three of his largest cashes have come in such events, making back to back final tables in 2011 and 2012 and the PCA $25,000 No Limit Hold’em High Roller events. The first of these two cashes was for a fifth-place finish which awarded him $240,470, falling just four places short of the seven-figure score for the winner. The following year, Metaal finished sixth for $181,300 in a remarkably tough final table line-up that included Jonathon Duhamel, Ike Haxton, Jason Koon and Randy Lew. Making it three deep runs in three years for high rollers, Metaal took down the WPT C$10,000 No Limit Hold’em event for $176,836. Winning his first WPT title is an impressive achievement in itself, but to do it by getting past soon-to-be WSOP Main Event winner Martin Jacobson and high roller regular Partush Buddiga speaks volumes about his talent.

Along with his WPT title, Govert also has claimed two EPT trophies as well. The first of these came in 2011 in the EPT Barcelona €1,000 No Limit Hold’em event where he beat German talent Martin Finger in a heads-up battle to win a six-figure cash prize. The second title came the following year at EPT Campione, where Metaal won the €10,000 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max event by getting past tournament crusher Steve O’Dwyer to seize the victory.

Govert doesn’t limit himself to live tournaments – he regularly plays online under the screenname ‘montecarlo13’ on PokerStars. According to his earnings tracked by Official Poker Rankings, he has made more than $1,000,000 from online MTT results with his biggest online cash coming in 2015 when he took down the $1,050 Super Tuesday for $102,980.