Tag: Super High Roller Bowl 2020

Justin Bonomo

There is a pattern to Justin Bonomo’s behaviour at the poker table. The one-time leader of the All-Time Money List on The Hendon Mob tends to pick up the wins in the tournaments containing the most significant prize pools.

In 2018, Bonomo won $25.4m during a run that saw him win two Super High Roller Bowl titles and the Big One for One Drop. In 2019, during the aftermath of Bryn Kenney ripping his All-Time Money ranking from his grip, Bonomo reacted by winning the £100,000 No Limit Hold’em Short Deck at the Triton Million London for $3.2m (the largest score outside of the £1m buy-in event).

Then you have the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO).

Of the 27 preliminary events, Event #11: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em distributed the wealthiest first prize ($622,634), and who would go on to win it – yes you’ve guessed it: Justin Bonomo.

Not content with his five cashes and more than $800,000 in prize money, Bonomo became the first player in history to win three SHRB titles, after conquering the 50-entrant field in the $102,000 buy-in masterpiece.

The Final Table

The final day began with Ali Imsirovic holding the chip lead, but the former Poker Master fell in ninth leaving Pauli Ayras to enter the final table with the biggest stack.

The final began with eight, and the name missing from the picture is Orpen Kisacikoglu unceremoniously cut from the frame by Michael Addamo to send everyone else into the money. The London-based Turkish star left with nothing.

Addamo would continue to play a pivotal role in the final, eliminating both Ayras and David Peters in fourth and third to set up a heads-up clash with Bonomo, holding 65% of the chips in play.

Both Addamo and Bonomo had won events during the preliminary rounds. Bonomo collected the $622,634 purse in Event #11: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em, and Addamo won the $228,800 top prize in Event #27: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em a day before this event began. Two top pros, both in form, as the heads-up duel reflected.

The final fight took longer than the entirety of the final table action that preceded it. The lead moved from top brass to top brass until in the final hand, Addamo called from the button holding a pair of ladies, Bonomo jammed with the more towering stack and Kh5d, and Addamo made the call. Bonomo flopped a second king and turned the third king to win the title, and capture the biggest prize of the series.

Here are the results.

Results

  1. Justin Bonomo – $1,775,000
  2. Michael Addamo – $1,187,500
  3. David Peters – $762,500
  4. Pauli Ayras – $487,500
  5. Dan Shak – $325,000
  6. Linus Loeliger – $250,000
  7. Sam Greenwood – $212,500

If you’ve tuned into the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO) coverage, there’s a hangover coming.

It’s over.

Well, nearly.

The preliminary rounds are over, and going into the final day, it came down to a battle between a Swede and Russian for the $102,000 SHRBO seat.

Going into the final triumvirate of tournaments, Viktor Blom led the way, with Artur Martirosian in second place. If Blom could put in a better performance than Martirosian, then nothing the Russian could do would prevent the online legend from finishing on top of the podium.

It didn’t happen.

Blom failed to cash in any of the last three events.

In contrast, Martirosian put in another sterling performance, finishing runner-up to Linus Loeliger in the $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em event, and third and tenth in the final $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em events to generate an additional 351-points, sailing to the top of the leaderboard.

The Russian is one of the newest high rollers on the block, and it’s been quite the entrance, adding the $1.8m earned in the SHRBO preliminaries to the $1.3m accumulated during the Poker Masters Online Series a few weeks ago.

Martirosian will be one of the favourites competing in the $102,000 SHRBO, but who will join him?

Samuel Vousden crushed the 103-entrant field in Event #25: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em. Vousden toppled the two-time SHRB winner, Timothy Adams, heads-up, to earn $252,350 – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?

Linus Loeliger was the biggest earner of the Poker Masters Online Series ($1.5m), and he hasn’t done too poorly in this one. The Swiss star ended the series with $833,532 in gross profit, with $520,000 earned after he defeated Martirosian in the heads-up phase of Event #26: $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?

Finally, Michael Addamo overcame the 88-entrant field in Event #27: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em to secure the $228,800 first prize after beating Mikita Badziakouski in heads-up action – will he invest it in an SHRBO seat?

Here are the results in full.

Event #25: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

103-entrants

Results

  1. Samuel Vousden – $252,350
  2. Timothy Adams – $180,250
  3. Thomas Muehloecker – $128,750
  4. Lucas Reeves – $90,125
  5. Nick Schulman – $66,950
  6. Christian Rudolph – $51,500
  7. Kahle Burns – $41,200
  8. Nick Petrangelo – $33,475

Event #26: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

64-entrants

Results

  1. Linus Loeliger – $520,000
  2. Artur Martirosian – $352,000
  3. Kristen Bicknell – $236,000
  4. William Foxen – $148,000
  5. Timothy Adams – $116,000
  6. George Wolff – $92,000
  7. Christoph Vogelsang – $76,000
  8. Isaac Haxton – $60,000

Event #27: $10,300 No LImit Hold’em

88-entrants

Results

  1. Michael Addamo – $228,800
  2. Mikita Badziakouski – $162,800
  3. Artur Martirosian – $114,400
  4. Kahle Burns – $79,200
  5. Dan Smith – $61,600
  6. Luuk Gieles – $44,000
  7. Ilya Anatski – $35,200
  8. Sam Greenwood – $30,800

Leaderboard Results

  1. Artur Martirosian – 1,288 points*
  2. Viktor Blom – 1,114
  3. Dan Smith – 780
  4. Matthias Eibinger – 735
  5. Kristen Bicknell – 649

*Wins a $102,000 seat into the SHRBO

Money Won Leaderboard

  1. Artur Martirosian – $1,795,395
  2. Viktor Blom – $1,552,025
  3. Dan Smith – $1,037,019
  4. Linus Loeliger – $833,532
  5. Matthias Eibinger – $821,391

ITM Finishes

  1. Mikita Badziakouski – 10
  2. Dan Smith – 9
  3. Kristen Bicknell – 9
  4. Artur Martirosian – 8
  5. Timothy Adams – 8
  6. Nick Petrangelo – 8

The $102,000 SHRBO starts Tuesday 2 June, as does the final event Event #29: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em.

Sam Greenwood

I know.

On the morning that a court handed Carole Baskin the keys to Joe Exotic’s former zoo, you’re wondering if there is any justice in the world?

Well, justice served on the virtual felt on Day 9 of the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO).

When Sam Greenwood enters a poker competition, he can extinguish people’s light like a great mass of cumulus clouds. The luck element helps keep his rampages from being too expansive, but he’s managed to swerve the deck’s shadow these past few days to earn a couple of titles.

Greenwood thwarted the hopes of 50-entrants to claim the top prize of $200,000 by winning Event #24: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em. The Canadian also won Event #20: $25,000 No Limit Hold ’em for $399,000. Despite his two wins, Greenwood isn’t in the running for the free SHRBO seat, but once again underlines his brilliance in the Cadillac of Poker.

One man who is in with a shout of winning the preliminary leaderboard, and with it, a seat in the $102,000 SHRBO is Artur Martirosian. The Russian finished runner-up to Stephen Chidwick in Event #23: 25,500 No Limit Hold ’em for his sixth in the money (ITM) finish, most of which have been at the deeper end of the pool. The win is Chidwick’s first ITM finish of the series, and the name of the great man has been mysteriously absent in the animated online poker meanderings during the lockdown.

Alexandros Kolonias is the third winner of the day.

The Poker Masters Online Champion creamed a field of 77-entrants in Event #22: 10,300 No Limit Hold ’em, beating Matthias Eibinger, heads-up, for the $240,860.62 first prize.

Here are the results moving into the final day of preliminaries.

Event #22: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

77-entrants

Results

  1. Alexandros Kolonias – $240,860.62
  2. Matthias Eibinger – $150,150
  3. Joao Vieira – $92,400
  4. Darrell Goh – $67,375
  5. Dan Shak – $48,125
  6. Mikita Badziakouski – $32,125

Event #23: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

43-entrants

Results

  1. Stephen Chidwick – $430,000.01
  2. Artur Martirosian – $275,140.87
  3. Darrell Goh – $139,75
  4. Isaac Haxton – $96,750
  5. Mikita Badziakouski – $75,250
  6. Sergi Reixach – $58,109.12

Event #24: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

50-entrants

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $200,000
  2. Dan Smith – $127,972.50
  3. Kristen Bicknell – $65,000
  4. Isaac Haxton – $45,000
  5. Ali Imsirovic – $35,000
  6. Kahle Burns – $27,027.50

Viktor Blom is currently hurtling across the Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO) on partypoker like a scud missile.

The online cash game legend has now won three SHRBO titles, and finished second on two other occasions after pummeling the 55-entrant field into hyperspace in Event #21: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em.

Blom slapped his white glove across the face of Isaac Haxton during heads-up action, eventually emerging from the duel without a hole in his body. Blom also won Event #9: $10,300 for $213,750 and Event #14: $25,500 for $407,500, and is the overwhelming favourite to win the $102,000 seat into the SHRBO Main Event.

One man destined to be spilling vermilion in that Main Event is Matthias Eibinger. The Austrian star subjugated 70-entrants in Event #19: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 48-hours after winning the $5,200 No Limit Hold’em, Midweek Freeze, Six Max at the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for $111,703.80. Eibinger collected $217,000 for his SHRBO win.

The third title of the day went to Sam Greenwood. The exquisite Canadian crushed a field of 42-entrants to win Event #20: $25,500 Super High Roller. Christoph Vogelsang finished runner-up in that one, with Vyacheslav Buldygin, third.

Here are the results.

Event #19: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max

70-entrants

Results

  1. Matthias Eibinger – $217,000
  2. Artur Martirosian – $150,500
  3. Kristen Bicknell – $98,000
  4. Joao Vieira – $63,000
  5. Mikita Badziakouski – $49,000
  6. Sergi Lloveras Reixach – $40,250
  7. Christopher Malcolm Fraser- $33,250
  8. Dan Smtih – $26,250

Event #20: $25,500 Super High Roller

42-entrants

Results

  1. Sam Greenwood – $399,000
  2. Christoph Vogelsang – $262,500
  3. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $168,000
  4. Nick Petrangelo – $94,500
  5. Timothy Adams – $73,500
  6. David Peters – $52,500

Event #21: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

55-entrants

Results

  1. Viktor Blom – $195,250
  2. Isaac Haxton – $130,625
  3. Stephen O’Dwyer – $83,875
  4. Mikita Badziakouski – $52,625
  5. Timothy Adams – $35,750
  6. Jake Schindler – $27,500
  7. Ali Imsirovic – $23,375

The Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO) continues to block out sunbeams as it cruises across the chaotic and choppy waters of partypoker. Three events dropped a few million bucks into bank accounts with the nonchalance of mother nature dropping a few withered leaves onto the ground.

Here they are.

The phenomena known as Adrian Mateos banked the most significant prize of the day. The Spaniard trounced a field of 61-entrants in Event #17: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em. His award of $527,509.70 is the third most magnificent of the series behind Justin Bonomo ($622,634), and Daniel Dvoress ($613,986.70). It was the second time Mateos had scrambled over the precipice of the in the money (ITM) strata finishing fifth in Event #14. Mateos got the better of Seth Davies, heads-up. Davies also finished third in Event #12 recently.

Artur Martirosian won Event #16 $10,300 No Limit Hold’em. The Russian star hammered 75-entrants to claim the $234,604.50 first prize, continuing a run of form that’s seen him win two Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles in May.

Linus Loeliger pulverised the 76-entrant field in Event #18: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em. The Swiss star earned $237,732.56 for the win, his first ITM finish of the series. Vicent Bosca Ramon finished second, and there was another Top 3 finish for David Peters, in third.

Here are the results.

Event #16: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

75-entrants

Results

  1. Artur Martirosian – $234,604.50
  2. Samuel Vousden – $146,250
  3. Christopher Hunichen – $90,000
  4. Timothy Adams – $65,625
  5. Michael Addamo – $46,875
  6. Dan Smith – $31,875

Event #17: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

61-entrants

Results

  1. Adrian Mateos – $527,509.70
  2. Seth Davies – $343,125
  3. Andrii Novak – $183,000
  4. Jake Schindler – $137,250
  5. Joao Vieira – $99,125
  6. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $68,625

Event #18: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

76-entrants

Results

  1. Linus Loeliger – $237,732.56
  2. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $148,200
  3. David Peters – $91,200
  4. Sergi Reixach – $66,500
  5. Selahaddin Bedir – $47,500
  6. Anatoly Filatov – $32,300

Nine more events are yet to stumble over the horizon before the $102,000 SHRBO Main Events comes into view.

It’s partypoker, so there is no ‘Isildur1’. The saccharine pseudonym that once assaulted the senses may be gone, but the creator of the man, the myth, the legend is very much alive.

Someone has opened the gates to the zoo, and Viktor Blom is out of his cage, tearing more than his fair share of flesh from the 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Online (SHRBO).

The Swedish star came into Day 6 of the SHRBO on top of the preliminary leaderboard after taking down Event #9, and finishing runner-up in Event #2 and Event #8. Now the points gap between Blom and the other animals has grown considerably.

Blom crystallised his menacing molestation of the SHRBO by conquering a field of 40-entrants in Event #14: $25,500, earning maximum points and $407,500 after beating Mike Watsons, heads-up.

David Peters finished third in Event #14, and the former Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1 had a sterling day, conquering a field of 70-entrants in Event #13: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em.

Justin Bonomo remains in a strong position in the rankings after finishing third in Event #13, and sixth in Event #15. The winner of Event #15 came from Canada, with Mark Radoja beating Pauli Ayras, heads-up, during the endgame of a 60-entrant Battle Royale. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner collected $195,000 for the win.

Here are the results.

Event #13: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

70-entrants

Results

  1. David Peters – $217,000
  2. Joao Vieira – $150,500
  3. Justin Bonomo – $98,000
  4. Matthias Eibinger – $63,000
  5. Christopher Hunichen – $49,000
  6. Aleksejs Meiess – $40,250
  7. Kristen Bicknell – $33,250
  8. Lucas Reeves – $26,250

Event #14: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

40-entrants

Results

  1. Viktor Blom – $407,500
  2. Michael Watson – $265,000
  3. David Peters – $165,000
  4. Adrian Mateos – $100,000
  5. Sam Greenwood – $62,500

Event #15: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

60-entrants

Results

  1. Mark Radoja – $195,000
  2. Pauli Ayras – $132,000
  3. Ole Schemion – $88,500
  4. Guillaume Nolet – $55,500
  5. Vyacheslav Buldygin – $43,500
  6. Justin Bonomo – $34,500
  7. Christopher Hunichen – $28,500
  8. Timothy Adams – $22,500

As the great asphalt desert of the Las Vegas Strip prepares to step into the unknown, poker’s hierarchy doesn’t have to venture out of the house just yet.

Poker Central’s Super High Roller Bowl Online continues to pepper partypoker’s poker platform, and Justin Bonomo emerged as the big winner on Day 5.

The one-time winningest live multi-table tournament (MTT) aficionado in history emerged triumphant in Event #11: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em. Bonomo conquered a field of 72-entrants to win the $622,634.40 first prize and moves into fifth place on the preliminary leaderboard.

Vicent Bosca Ramon and Ludovic Geilich also experienced the uncanny synchronicity that accompanies any tournament win in poker. Ramon took down the 77-entrant field in Event #10: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em Six Max. The Spaniard sits in 7th place on the leaderboard after recording his third cash of the series. Geilich outlasted a 69-entrant field in the other $10,300 No Limit Hold’em encounter, his first in the money (ITM) finish of the series.

There was no dearth of near misses for Matthias Eibinger. The Austrian finished ITM in all three events, coming closest in Event #10, losing to Ramon, heads-up for the title.

Kristen Bicknell, Wiktor Malinowski, Luuk Gieles, Andrii Novak, and Ali Imsirovic each finished ITM in two events. Daniel Dvoress also finished ITM in Event #11, enough to see him rise to third in the overall rankings behind Viktor Blom and Dan Smith neither of whom made their mark.

Here are the day’s results.

Event #10: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em Six Max

77-entrants

Results

  1. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $240,860.62
  2. Matthias Eibinger – $150,150
  3. Luuk Gieles – $92,400
  4. Wiktor Malinowski – $67,375
  5. Michael Watson – $48,125
  6. Nick Petrangelo – $32,725
  7. Andrii Novak – $25,025
  8. Markus Leikkonen – $25,025
  9. Rok Gostisa – $25,025
  10. Kristen Bicknell – $21,096
  11. Ali Imsirovic – $21,096
  12. Rob Lipkin – $21,096

Event #11: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

72-entrants

Results

  1. Justin Bonomo – $622,634.40
  2. Artur Martirosian – $405,000
  3. Matthias Eibinger – $216,000
  4. Salahaddin Bedir – $162,000
  5. Wiktor Malinowski – $117,000
  6. Ali Imsirovic – $81,000
  7. Michael Addamo – $65,455
  8. Daniel Dvoress – $65,455
  9. Mikita Badziakouski – $65,455

Event #12: $10,000 No Limit Hold’em

69-entrants

Results

  1. Ludovic Geilich – $238,676.52
  2. Alexandros Kolonias – $155,250
  3. Seth Davies – $82,800
  4. Andrii Novak – $62,100
  5. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $44,850
  6. Jonathan Van Fleet – $31,050
  7. Luuk Gieles – $25,091
  8. Kristen Bicknell – $25,091
  9. Matthias Eibinger – $25,091

Leaderboard Standings

  1. Viktor Blom 625 points
  2. Dan Smith – 511
  3. Daniel Dvoress – 471
  4. Alex Foxen – 402
  5. Justin Bonomo – 397

Few people in modernity, have smashed the virtual felt with the same impact as Viktor’ Isildur1′ Blom. He wasn’t pretentious. He wasn’t big time. He was a star who loved poker and the way it made him feel.

We’ve seen less of him in recent times, punctured by the odd million-dollar result, but when we do see him, it tends to be on the tournament circuit, not the arena where people used to shower him with roses.

But who cares, right?

As long as we see more of the man ‘being the man’.

The Swedish star currently occupies the #1 spot on the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Online Preliminary Leaderboard after a Day #3 performance that made poker connoisseurs lose the ability to form sentences.

Blom conquered the 75-entrant field in Event #9: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em and added his $213,750 purse to the $365,500 obtained for finishing runner-up to Dan Smith in Event #8: $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em.

Smith currently sits in second place on the leaderboard. Not only did he win Event #8 for $527,000, but he also finished eighth in Event #9, and is one of four players to have finished in the money (ITM) in four of the first nine events.

Luuk Gieles was the other winner of the day, defeating 90-entrants to win the $234,000 first prize in Event #7: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em. George Wolff finished runner-up in that event for his third cash of the series, and Ali Imsirovic finished third for his first cash.

Here are the results.

Luuk Gieles Wins Event #7: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

90-entrants

Results

  1. Luuk Gieles – $234,000
  2. George Wolff – $166,500
  3. Ali Imsirovic – $117,000
  4. Pascal Hartmann – $81,000
  5. Mark Radoja – $63,000
  6. Jonathan Van Fleet – $45,000
  7. Mikita Badziakouski – $36,000
  8. John O’Shea – $31,500
  9. Simon Higgins – $27,000
  10. Adrian Mateos – $27,000
  11. Orpen Kisacikoglu – $27,000
  12. Darrell Goh – $22,500
  13. Kahle Burns – $22,500

Dan Smith Wins Event #8: $25,500 No Limit Hold ’em

68-entrants

  1. Dan Smith – $527,000
  2. Viktor Blom – $365,500
  3. Artur Martirosian – $153,000
  4. Simon Higgins – $153,000
  5. Alex Foxen – $119,000
  6. Giuseppe Iadisernia – $97,750
  7. Orpen Kisacikoglu – $80,750
  8. Darrell Goh – $63,750
  9. Linus Loeliger – $55,250

Viktor Blom Wins Event #9: $10,300 No Limit Hold ’em

75-entrants

  1. Viktor Blom – $213,750
  2. Christoph Vogelsang – $146,250
  3. Arnaud Enselme – $101,250
  4. George Wolff – $67,500
  5. Kristen Bicknell – $52,500
  6. Mark Davis – $41,250
  7. Darrell Goh – $33,750
  8. Dan Smith – $26,250
  9. Justin Bonomo – $22,500
  10. Rui Ferreira – $22,500
  11. Mikita Badziakouski – $22,500

Leaderboard Standings

  1. Viktor Blom – 625 pts
  2. Dan Smith – 511
  3. Daniel Dvoress – 432
  4. Alex Foxen – 402
  5. Chris Hunichen – 347

Daniel Dvoress has taken the lead in the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Online Series hosted by partypoker. The Canadian star finished sixth in Event #2: $25,500 for slightly better than a min-cash, before marching on to take the top prize in Event #5: $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em for $613,986.70.

The Canadian’s online win arrives after an impressive rash of live results that began at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Montenegro (May 2019) and culminated in winning the SHRB in the Bahamas for $4m in Nov.

Dvoress is one of the 18-players to have finished in the money (ITM) in two events, and included in that two-digit number are Alex Foxen, Dan Smith and Nick Petrangelo. The American trio featured in two of the three events that finished on this day in question with Foxen coming out slightly ahead of Smith in the money earned stakes.

Outside of Dvoress, there were wins for Mikalai Vaskaboinikau and Pascal LeFrancois.

Vaskaboinikau is a high stakes reg on the European Poker Tour (EPT) circuit and finished 5/69 in 2018 €50,000 No Limit Hold’em at EPT Barcelona to record the most substantial live score of his career (€267,800). The Belarusian conquered a field of 106-entrants to win the $293,090 first prize in Event #4: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em.

Vaskaboinikau defeated Kristen Bicknell, heads-up, to collect the win, and her beau Foxen finished fifth. The 2020 Poker Masters Online Champion, Alexandros Kolonias, finished third.

LeFrancois took down the 83-entrant $10,300 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max after beating Foxen, heads-up for the title. The French-Canadian finished ITM six-times during the 2020 Poker Masters Online, winning two events, and accumulating more than a million bucks in gross revenue. Hence, he’s a flame thrower, right now.

Here are the results in full.

Mikalai Vaskaboinikau Wins Event #4: $10,300 No Limit Hold’em

106-entrants

Results

  1. Mikalai Vaskaboinikau – $293,090
  2. Kristen Bicknell – $185,500
  3. Alexandros Kolonias – $127,200
  4. Darren Goh – $91,160
  5. Alex Foxen – $66,250
  6. George Wolff – $43,990

Daniel Dvoress Wins Event #5: $25,500 No Limit Hold’em

71-entrants

Results

  1. Daniel Dvoress – $613,986.70
  2. Andras Nemeth – $399,375
  3. Fedor Holz – $213,000
  4. Mikita Badziakouski – $159,750
  5. Dan Smith – $115,375
  6. Nick Petrangelo – $79,875

Pascal LeFrancois Wins Event #5 $10,300 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max

83-entrants

Results

  1. Pascal Lefrancois – $259,628.98
  2. Alex Foxen – $161,850
  3. Dan Smith – $99,600
  4. Nick Petrangelo – $72,625
  5. Samuel Vousen – $51,876
  6. Chris Hunichen – $35,275

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

  1. Jans Arends – $216,600
  2. Benjamin Heath – $148,200
  3. Alex Foxen – $102,600
  4. Jake Schindler – $68,400
  5. Sergi Reixach – $53,200
  6. Niklas Astedt – $41,800
  7. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $34,200
  8. Christopher Fraser – $26,600

Chris Hunichen Wins Event #2: $25,500 Super High Roller

54-entrants

Results

  1. Christopher Hunichen – $479.250
  2. Viktor Blom – $320,625
  3. Mark Davis – $205,875
  4. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $131,625
  5. Rob Lipkin – $87,750
  6. Daniel Dvoress – $67,500
  7. Timothy Adams – $57,375

Sergi Reixach Wins Event #3: $10,300 High Roller

59-entrants

Results

  1. Sergi Reixach – $191,750
  2. Michael Watson – $129,800
  3. Andras Nemeth – $87,025
  4. Vicent Bosca Ramon – $54,575
  5. Juan Pardo Dominguez – $42,775
  6. John O’ Shea – $33,925
  7. Michael Addamo – $28,025
  8. Jonathan VanFleet – $22,125