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There’s good news on the Colombian Uber front.

The controversial taxi service left South America’s third most populous country on Feb 1 after contravening a rule or twelve. Still, they’re back after promising Colombian lawmakers to operate on the right side of that slim divide.

That’s good news for Farid Jattin because when he spills into the streets of Bogata airport, he can have one waiting for him and his recently buddied 200 large.

Jattin is a poker anatomist, right now; taking apart competition after competition with ease. The 2019 Global Poker Index (GPI) Latin American Player of the Year, came into the partypoker MILLIONS South America in Uruguay in a rich coal seam of form after burning a hole through Australia with a win and a sixth in AUD 25k events at the Australian Poker Open (APO), and a win and a seventh in AUD 25 events in the Aussie Millions.

Jattin took down the 84-entrant $10,300 NLHE High Roller Finale in the Punta del Este. The Colombian has now earned $5.6m in live tournaments, with more than $1.1m in the first two months of 2020.

Let’s see how he took it down to Montevideo town.

The Nutshell Action

Luis Gustavo became the first player to leave the final table when his A5o failed to hold against the KTo of Roberto José Sagra after the couple got it in during a button v big blind affair.

Then Farid Jattin found aces to double through the pretty looking JdTd of Michael Del Vecchio.

The former World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event winner, Jack Sinclair, ended up in the local chip shop when in the first hand after a well-deserved break, Sinclair got it in with AKo versus the pocket jacks of Rodrigo Seiji, and the fish hooks held.

The two-time World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event champion, Marvin Rettenmaier, took out Michael Del Vecchio like a bible in an atheist convention. Del Vecchio moved all-in holding K9o from under the gun, and Rettenmaier called and won with ATo from the small blind.

Still, ousting Del Vecchio didn’t spur Rettenmaier on to greater things. The German got it in with his AKo well ahead of Seiji’s Kh7h, only for the chip leader to flop a seven to eliminate the man christened ‘Mad’.

Seiji extended his lead at the top of the counts after eliminating Sagra after his pocket rockets burned As8c alive. Still, Jattin ensured the heads-up confrontation with Seiji would begin on an even keel after his pocket aces kicked ten tons of crap out of Hilario Quijada’s pocket deuces.

Three hands settled things for Jattin.

First, he took the vast majority of Seiji’s chips when A6o beat K2o with all of the chips in the middle. Seiji doubled with AQo v 75o, but then the A6o of Jattin beat Q2o to land him the tenth title of his career.

Uber for Jattin.

ITM Results

  1. Farid Jattin – $200,000
  2. Rodrigo Seiji – $129,800
  3. Hilario Quijada – $95,000
  4. Roberto José Sagra – $75,000
  5. Marvin Rettenmnaier – $60,000
  6. Mike Del Vecchio – $50,000
  7. Jack Sinclair – $45,000

465-entrants sawed the legs of partypoker’s $10,3000 No-Limit Hold ’em (NLHE) MILLIONS South American Main Event at the Punta del Este Resort and Casino in Uruguay.

The final table contained five South American incumbents supplemented by three Europeans. Eventually, the Brazilians held the surgical scalpel with Pablo Silva beating his compatriot, Fabio Colonese, in heads-up competition.

It was Silva’s first live tournament win, and like a doctor doing the rounds during a hernia victim’s coughing fit, the timing was perfect as $1m now sits in Silva’s bank account.

Before this win, Silva’s biggest score came in April when he finished 4/538 in a €2,200 NLHE High Roller at the European Poker Tour (EPT) in Monte Carlo for €70,100. It’s not his first MILLIONS Main Event rodeo. He finished 56/536 in the MILLIONS Vegas Main Event in the summer.

Here is the nutshell action.

The Nutshell Action

The first person to leave the contest was Pedro Madeira. The Brazilian open-shoved from the hijack holding KJo for 18.2m and the composure of a man sat darning a sock. In the next seat sat Andres Viola, and he peeked down to see AQo. It was good enough. Viola moved all-in for 44.1m, flopped a second ace for good measure, and Madeira picked up the $100,000 8th place prize.

Then the table lost the rocking horse in this particular set of playthings.

Dzmitry Urbanovich raised to 2.5m, holding AKo in the first position, Fabian Gumz called from the small blind for Kd8d, only to see Daniel Rezaei move all-in from the big blind with a pair of nines worth 55.1m. Urbanovich also moved in, Gumz folded, and the couple flipped for a 100m pot. The Pole’s hope vanished like a china doll in a china shop containing a bull when Rezaei flopped quads, leading to Urbanovich’s exit from the competition.

Next to walk past the paintings in the hallway earlier than anticipated was Sergio Luis Di Pego. Fabio Colonese opened the cutoff for 4m holding Qc8d, Di Pego found a pair of fours on the button and moved all-in for 21m. The blinds folded, and Colonese made the call, hit Broadway on the turn, and Viola became the only hometown hope left in the competition – for a bit.

Colonese opened to 4m from the button, holding Jc9c, and then called when Viola three-bet to 15m holding Kh3c in the big blind. A flop of Ks8s5d hit the board like a trio of door stoppers, and both players tapped the felt. The 7c on the turn retained Viola’s lead but handed Colonese a gutshot, which duly arrived on the river in the form of the Ts.

Then we lost the man whose name you won’t find in The Hendon Mob. Rezaei opened to 5m from the cutoff holding AhKd and called when Fabian Gumz moved all-in from the big blind holding AdQc and 60m. The queens decided to stay in the deck, learning Latin or something, and Gumz left the competition.

The heads-up portrait of Pablo Silva and Fabio Colonese came into view after Rezaei left in the third place. Silva acted first, opening to 8m in position with pocket nines, and then called when Rezaei moved all-in for 139.5m holding the inferior pocket eights. A cooler. Rezaei’s $435,000 will at least buy him something that fits into a rather large cardboard box.

Colonese began as the short-stack during heads-up play, and with a series of all-ins. Silva kept his powder dry before limping in with pocket jacks. Colonese moved all-in for his tournament life holding 86o, and Silva called, battered him, and became our newest MILLIONS Main Event champion.

Final Table Results

  1. Pablo Silva – $1,000,000
  2. Fabio Colonese – $640,000
  3. Daniel Rezaei – $435,000
  4. Fabian Gumz – $310,000
  5. Andres Viola – $230,000
  6. Sergio Luis Di Pego – $170,000
  7. Dzmitry Urbanovich – $130,000
  8. Pedro Madeira – $100,000

High rollers who went as deep as a deep-sea fisherman’s lure in this one were Rainer Kempe (16th), Chino Rheem (18th) and Ivan Luca (49th).

The name hasn’t changed.

The venue has.

Yet, the deck still has its favourites.

Two of the stars of 2019 partypoker MILLIONS South America stepped from the wings to feature on the centre stage of the $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em (NLHE) Super High Roller.

The richest buy-in of the Enjoy Punta del Este Resort & Casino hosted series saw 35-entrants create the first prize of $350,000, with James Romero and Marty Mathis trying to avoid the crypt-cold feel of bridesmaid linen.

Romero finished 9th in the $10,300 High Roller at the MILLIONS South America in Brazil last year and recently finished third in the MILLIONS UK Main Event at Dusk till Dawn (DTD) for $420,000.

Mathis is the reigning MILLIONS South America Champion having been the shampoo that doused 439 lice on his way to an $837,700 first prize in Brazil.

Let’s see how the pair made it to the endgame.

The Nutshell Action

Only five from 35 people would leave the final table without enmity, and the person who ended in position six was Niall Farrel. The Triple Crown winner, opened to 1,925,000 from the cutoff holding pocket eights (leaving only 25,000 behind), Jacob Daniels made the call from the small blind, holding QdTd, and Francisco Benitez made the call from the big blind holding pocket jacks. To say that Farrell was in a tannery minus a set of nose plugs was an understatement. The Ah6d4h flop maintained Benitez’s hold on the hand. Everyone checked. The Qc on the turn gave Daniels the lead with one card remaining. He locked the gate and threw away the key by moving all-in, Benitez found the fold button, but Farrell flicked his final 25,000 into the pot before leaving with nothing but a stale onion ring once the 5d had hit the river.

Benitez may have dodged that hand, but he didn’t evade the next one.

When the action folded to Daniels in the small blind, he moved all-in holding AhTh, and Benitez called for his tournament life with Td8c from the next pew. The board whiffed for Benitez, and the ace-high of Daniels sent him to the rail in the sixth place.

Marty Mathis sent seeds of resentment into the soul of Daniels, twice doubling through the MILLIONS Champion when aces beat jacks, and when jacks beat treys. And then we lost Ivan Luca.

The action folded to Luca in the small blind holding As6s, and he moved the last of his chips into the middle. James Romero called from the big blind holding Kd9h, flopped a king, and ended Luca’s hopes of a title in his continent.

Romero continued his ascent when he doubled through Daniels. The hand was an aberration for the latter, when Romero set a trap, limping with pocket aces. Daniels moved all-in holding Qs9d, and Romero was already locked and loaded.

After that hand, Daniels moved all-in for 6,775,000, holding pocket threes on the button, and Romero finished the job with pocket eights from the big blind.

The heads-up encounter saw both players take the chip lead before Romero opened to 1,600,000 from the button holding AdTh, and then called when Mathis moved all-in for 7,875,000 holding QdJh. An ace on the flop settling affairs.

Here are the final ITM finishes.

ITM results

  1. James Romero – $350,000
  2. Marty Mathis – $213,750
  3. Jacob Daniels – $150,000
  4. Ivan Luca – $100,000
  5. Francisco Benitez – $60,000

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.