It’s unusual to see a high roller playing in the Unibet Open, but Max Silver is an ‘unusual’ high roller. He might even shake his head at me, portraying him as a ‘high roller.’ Still, when you turn up at a Triton Poker Super High Roller Series to compete in the high stakes Short-Deck events, a high roller you become.
Silver is unusual because he doesn’t stick with high stakes actions, preferring to move in and out of games along the mid-stakes axis. Included in his plans was a February trip to the Unibet Open in Dublin where a few implicit memories formed after a 16th placed finish in the €1,100 Main Event and a fourth-place finish in the €2,200 High Roller.
The second time Silver experienced the value of a Unibet Open event he did so from the comfort of his home. In reaction to lockdown, Unibet moved their three remaining 2020 live stops into their online platform, and Silver is now wearing the crown jewels from their first one.
The Unibet Online Series ran from May 1 – 25, and offered €1m in guaranteed prize money. The €1,100 Unibet Open Online Main Event carried the largest chunk (€200,000), and 373-entrants doubled the prizepool, making it the richest in the site’s history.
According to PokerNews, Silver came into the final table with the chip lead, and ‘dominated’ proceedings, eventually winning the €77,321 first prize after ousting Jamie ‘jamnix_90’ Nixon in heads-up action. Nixon also played in Dublin, finishing eighth in the Main Event. Nobody has ever won €77,321 playing on Unibet.
The win came at the same time, Silver finished seventh in the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Main Event for $161,991, so it’s safe to say that his poker is singing like a nightingale.
Here are the results.
Results
- Max ‘SHAPOSNOVE’ Silver – €77,321
- Jamie ‘jamnix_90’ Nixon – €55,056
- Ibrul – €40,009
- J0zlfB4dM0N – €28,726
- Backdoorman3 – €21,884
- GMAsunare – €16,071
- XMorphineX – €11,625
- Crazykunkku – €8,377
- Dimlingen – €5,986