Poker peasants make way for poker players with princely purses as Poker Central partners with partypoker for the 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Online.
The series lands on your laptops an olive pip away from the Poker Masters Online (a 30-event series that raised more than $35m in prize money and resulted in a snazzy purple jacket winging it’s way to the ramparts of Alexandros Kolonias).
The 28-event series runs from May 23 – June 1, and there is at least $20m GTD in prize money up for grabs. The plan is to create a leaderboard for the preliminary events with the winner earning a seat into the $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Online, and the chance for one of the most vivid poker vacations of ones’ life.
PokerGO will stream ten of the final tables, including the SHRB Finale, on their OTT subscription service.
Chris Hunichen has started the series like a bull in a china shop smashing apart the 54-entrant field in Event #2: $25,500 Super High Roller. With more than $13m in online multi-table tournament (MTT) winnings, ‘Big Huni’ is one of the most successful online poker players in history, and in 2015 he reached the summit of the PocketFives World Rankings.
The $479,250 purse is Hunichen’s second most substantial of his career after finishing third in the 2018 Spring Championships of Online Poker (SCOOP) $10,300 Main Event on PokerStars for $618,943.63.
Hunichen defeated Viktor Blom, heads-up, for the title. My spell checker wishes to change ‘Blom’ for ‘Boom’, and the Swede recently ‘boomed’ his way into a third-place finish in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Championships $10,300 Pot Limit Omaha, also on partypoker.
Three people recorded multiple in the money (ITM) finishes throughout the first three events, and all of them have Spanish blood running through their veins.
Sergi Reixach took down Event #3: $10,300 High Roller beating 59-entrants to claim the $191,750 first prize, and also finished fifth in Event #1: $10,300 High Roller (Jans Arends topped the 76-entrant field).
Vicent Bosca Ramon finished fourth in Event #2: $25,500 Super High Roller for $131,625, and finished in the same position in Event #3: $10,300 High Roller for $54,575.
Juan Pardo Dominguez finished seventh in Event #1: $10,300 High Roller for $34,200, and fifth in Event #3: $10,300 High Roller for $42,775.
Here are the results in full.
Jans Arends Wins Event #: $10,300 High Roller
76 entrants
Results
- Jans Arends – $216,600
- Benjamin Heath – $148,200
- Alex Foxen – $102,600
- Jake Schindler – $68,400
- Sergi Reixach – $53,200
- Niklas Astedt – $41,800
- Juan Pardo Dominguez – $34,200
- Christopher Fraser – $26,600
Chris Hunichen Wins Event #2: $25,500 Super High Roller
54-entrants
Results
- Christopher Hunichen – $479.250
- Viktor Blom – $320,625
- Mark Davis – $205,875
- Vicent Bosca Ramon – $131,625
- Rob Lipkin – $87,750
- Daniel Dvoress – $67,500
- Timothy Adams – $57,375
Sergi Reixach Wins Event #3: $10,300 High Roller
59-entrants
Results
- Sergi Reixach – $191,750
- Michael Watson – $129,800
- Andras Nemeth – $87,025
- Vicent Bosca Ramon – $54,575
- Juan Pardo Dominguez – $42,775
- John O’ Shea – $33,925
- Michael Addamo – $28,025
- Jonathan VanFleet – $22,125