EPT Malta: Felix Schneiders is going deep, and no one should be surprised
It’s already been a good week for Felix Schneiders, but things are about to get better.
“I actually didn’t know that,” Schneiders confessed to a TV producer this morning when informed that he was about to record his best-ever EPT Main Event performance. “I thought I’d already beaten it, but now you tell me that, I’m even happier that I’m going to be able to beat my best score so far.”
The German pro and streaming sensation was talking ahead of Day 3 at this EPT Malta Main Event. The bubble has come and gone. Schneiders flopped quad fours to double up late on Day 2. And now here he was in the last 108 competitors with a comfortable medium-sized stack.
Having cashed for the first time at an EPT Main Event in Monte Carlo in April 2024, he subsequently also made the money in Cyprus in October of the same year. In those two events he finished 109th for €11,500 and 103rd for $12,020, respectively, so Schneiders had solid prospects of beating his record for both finishing position and money earned here in Malta.
(His top career cash remains a $69,100 payout from the PSPC in the Bahamas in 2019.)
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These results are steadily trending upward, and this is not just by chance. Schneiders always travels to the EPT with his full Grind on Tour crew, a team of videographers who not only record all the action and broadcast it to his many fans, but also offer him crucial support. The relatively recent addition of a poker coach is immediately paying dividends.
“I have my crew, they have my back all the time,” Schneiders says. “My coach, he’s working with me on the stream, and we’re working together very closely on all the spots that I play and I review all the footage that I’ve got from Grind on Tour recordings.
“It’s really cool to have because then I can watch myself in different situations and look for tells, or look for certain spots, strategies. It’s really helped, and he’s been by my side so far, it’s been really going well.”
Pretty much all top-ranking poker pros have coaches, but not everyone has access to the kind of footage that Schneiders does. He spends almost all of his poker-playing time in front of a camera, both while playing online and streaming, and when at the EPT tables for Grind on Tour. And it makes excellent sense to be utilising a vast database of information to inform his play.
Felix Schneiders is feeling more and more at ease at the EPT
For the early portion of play today, he will also have access to everyone else’s hole cards. He’s taking a seat at the PokerStars Live feature table. With stars including Daniel Rezaei and Jans Arends also there — and to Schneiders’ immediate left — there will be plenty to study when he gets home.
But that’s for another day. The aim this afternoon in Malta is to take it one hand at a time. One level at a time. aAnd keep riding those pay-jumps.
“I feel like I’m growing,” Schneiders says. “I’ve been working on my game a lot. It shows.”
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