The Onyx Club, located at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in Cyprus, is currently hosting Super High Roller Bowl IX, which will offer a total of 10 tournaments, all in freezeout format.
The first tournament was the NLH 8-Max with a buy-in of $25,750 and was played by 39 players. Of those, 8 players made it to the final day. However, only 6 of them were able to make it to the ITM. Kayhan Mokri entered the final table as the chipleader with a stack of almost 3 million. However, names like Santhosh Suvarna, Leonard Maue, Sam Greenwood, Brian Kim and Czech player Roman Hrabec were also present in the final table.
Playing seven-handed, Hrabec found himself shortstacked, but managed to multiply. In the end, the bubble-boy title went to Brian Kim, who ended up with no prize money. Maxim Vaskresenski of Poland finished in 6th place for $62,000, followed by Sam Greenwood, Leonard Maue and Kayhan Mokri in the money.
Santhosh Suvarna was the chipleader when the six-player hand was played, but after Hrabec found pocket aces twice, it was he who moved into the chipleader position. Roman Hrabec also entered the final heads-up match as chipleader with a stack of 5,520,000 against Suvarna's stack of 2,280,000. Roman Hrabec then just finished what he started, and in the end he beat Suvarna as well. This gave the Czech player the full $316,000 winner's prize, earning him his first PGT title and valuable points on the PGT Leaderboard.
Source - PGT
