Poker is about to mystify and mesmerise us for another month. January animated 2020 with splashes of brilliance from three continents and February maintains that trend.
After the Aussie Millions, the high roller fraternity took a flight to Queensland to compete in the Australian Poker Open (APO). That new series ends with the inaugural Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Australia.
Australia becomes the fifth country to host an SHRB when the players descend on the Star Gold Coast in Queensland, 2-4 Feb for the AUD 250,000 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) extravaganza.
Here are the previous winners.
Las Vegas
2015: Brian Rast beats 43-entrants to win $7,525,000*
2016: Rainer Kempe beats 49-entrants to win $5,000,000
2017: Christoph Vogelsang beats 56-entrants to win $6,000,000
2018: Justin Bonomo beats 48-entrants to win $5,000,000
2018: Isaac Haxton beats 36-entrants to win $3,672,000**
- The buy-in was $500k before dropping to $300k in ensuing years.
** Poker Central held dragged the 2019 event into Dec 2018, creating two SHRB games in a single calendar year to align with their new Player of the Year setup.
China
2018: Justin Bonomo beats 75-entrants to win $4,823,077
London
2019: Cary Katz beats 12-entrants to win $2,610,317
Bahamas
2019: Daniel Dvoress beats 37-entrants to win $4,080,000
Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, Jeju
After the SHRB, the high stakes glacier glides to the Korean island of Jeju for the first Triton Poker Super High Roller series of 2020.
It’s the third Triton Jeju event. The first comprised of five games. Mikita Badzuakouski starred by becoming the first player to win back-to-back No-Limit Hold’em Main Event titles, and Kenneth Kee won the Short-Deck Main Event. The series returned in 2019 with seven events. Jason Koon won two of them, including the Short-Deck Main Event, and Timothy Adams won the NLHE Main Event.
The action takes place between 9-22 Feb at the Landing Casino in Shinwa World, Jeju, South Korea with an 11-event series. There are two Main Events, both priced at HKD 1m (NLHE & Short-Deck), and it’s the first time at this price point for the NLHE Main Event having previously been HKD 2m.
Here is the lineup:
10-11 Feb: HKD 250k NLHE
11-12 Feb: HKD 500k NLHE 6-Max
12-13 Feb: HKD 750k NLHE
13-14 Feb: HKD 250k NLHE 6-Max Turbo
14-16 Feb: HKD 1m NLHE Main Event
16-17 Feb: HKD 300k NLHE/Short-Deck Mix Turbo
17-18 Feb: HKD 250k Short-Deck
18-19 Feb: HKD 500k Short-Deck
19-20 Feb: HKD 750k Short-Deck
20-22 Feb: HKD 1m Short-Deck Main Event
22 Feb: HKD 300k Short-Deck
partypoker MILLIONS South America
Running simultaneously with the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series is partypoker’s MILLIONS South America event.
The series runs from 6-16 Feb, from the Enjoy Conrad Resort & Casino, Punta del Este, Uruguay, and the main feature is a $10,300, $5m GTD NLHE Main Event.
As has become standard, there is a $25,500 NLHE MILLIONS Super High Roller, and that takes place 10-11 Feb and a $10,300 NLHE MILLIONS High Roller Finale.
It’s the second MILLIONS event of 2020. Dusk till Dawn (DTD) in Nottingham hosted MILLIONS UK in January, and the in-form Kahle Burns took down the $25k Super High Roller, Joao Vieira took down the $10k High Roller Finale, and Anton Suarez won the $10k Main Event.
In 2019, MILLIONS South America hailed from the Belmond Copacabana Palace Hotel in Brazil. Marty Mathis won the $10k Main Event, Guillaume Nolet won the $10k High Roller, and there were two $25k events with Jonathan Depa owning one. Pablo Joaquin Melogno Cabrera took down the other.
And that’s a wrap for the February high roller action.