The Super High Roller Series, headlined by Super High Roller Bowl IX, is currently underway at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus. The series has brought 10 freezeout tournaments here, 7 of which are in NLH format and 3 in PLO format.
Roman Hrabec has another title, winning the first tournament of the SHRB series and earning $316,000The very opening tournament was dominated by Roman Hrabec, who managed to make it all the way to the top from the shortstack. The second tournament was dominated by Quan Zhou who took home $316,000, the third tournament was won by Maher Nouira ($333,000), the fourth tournament was dominated by Masashi Oya ($535,000), and yesterday the tournaments numbered 5 and 6 were on the schedule. Maksim Vaskresenski was the winner in the fifth one, and we'll take a closer look at the sixth tournament.
Mystery Bounty tournament with an unusual ending
The Mystery Bounty (6-Max) tournament with a buy-in of $25,750 brought 40 entries and a prizepool worth $980,000. A $162,000 bounty awaited the winner here, to which he or she could earn one $200,000 bounty and two $100,000 bounties.
Cash prizes were waiting for the top 6 players. Sorel Mizzi was the first to bust out of the final table, followed by Sam Greenwood and Seth Davies at the cashier. The top three players were joined by Phil Ivey as chipleader.
The entire tournament eventually ended with a 3-way all-in, with Mateos hitting a flush on the turn to become the winner of this tournament. He earned $162,000 for first place and added another $165,000 in bounty prizes. Phil Ivey took second place and was the one who took home the most money from the tournament. In fact, Ivey hit one $100,000 envelope and a $200,000 envelope, adding $413,000 to his second-place prize.
Adrian Mateos has now won three tournaments this year and this is his fifth PGT win overall. For Mateos, it was his fourth consecutive ITM placement in the SHRS. He first finished second, then third and fourth in the previous three events. He has now increased his live tournament earnings to nearly $50 million.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize Money | Bounties | PGT Points |
| 1st | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $162,000 | $165,000 | 194 |
| 2nd | Phil Ivey | United States | $113,000 | $300,000 | 136 |
| 3rd | Quan Zhou | China | $82,000 | $0 | 98 |
| 4th | Seth Davies | United States | $59,000 | $0 | 71 |
| 5th | Sam Greenwood | Canada | $42,000 | $25,000 | 50 |
| 6th | Sorel Mizzi | Canada | $32,000 | $0 | 38 |
Source - PGT