The most expensive tournament of the entire WSOP festival is already behind us, namely the Super High Roller with a buy-in of up to $250,000, which naturally attracted the world's top players. The final 69 entries meant a prizepool worth up to $17,181,000 and up to $5,293,556 was waiting for the winner.
During the first day, an unknown player named Dustin Bailey, who has the last entry on HendonMob from 2015 and has only 4 ITM positions in total, took the chip leader position. He admitted that he doesn't follow poker and didn't even know any of his star opponents. He got into the Super High Roller by talking his family into going to Las Vegas for Father's Day weekend. Coming as an unknown player to the WSOP and playing the most expensive tournament with the best players in the world definitely takes a lot of courage. To become the chip leader straight away after the first day is almost unbelievable.
Dustin ultimately failed to make it through the Day 2 pitfalls, finishing in 19th place with no prize money. That was waiting for the 11 best players. Chipleader of final table was Chance Kornuth.
All 9 finalists already had at least $478,663 in their pockets. Steven Veneziano ended up taking home that prize in 9th place after crashing into Chance Kornuth. Chance consolidated his chip lead and shot up to over 31 million with a stack.
Brandon Steven finished in 8th place, sent to the cash register by Martin Kabrhel. Brandon improved his lifetime winnings by $574,899.
During the game in seven players, Kornuth gradually started to lose chips and Martin Kabrhel took the chip lead again. However, even Martin could not keep this post and was overtaken by Alex Kulev.
Kornuth claimed the floor again when he eliminated David Peters. After Chance hit the flush on the board, David had to settle for the $712,953 prize for 7th place. After this hand, Chance slowly made his way back to the top.
In a six-player game, the game stopped and the chips were moved from side to side. Chris Brewer fell to the last 9 blinds here. However, he was not the next one eliminated, but Dan Smith, who was sent home by Martin Kabrhel. Dan took home $912,022 for 6th place and Kabrhel shot to a massive chip lead worth 42.2 million.
The original chip leader of the final table, Chance Kornuth, finished in fifth place, whose executioner was Alex Kulev. Kornuth took home $1,202,318.
It was Alex Kulev who was eliminated next and took home $1,632,005 for fourth place. He was eliminated by Artur Martirosian, who was promoted to chip leader with a stack of more than 61 million by this hand.
It only took a few hands and everything was different. Martin Kabrhel started losing millions from his stack and Chris Brewer started to take over It didn't take long and the Czech representative had to go to the cash register. He took home a prize of $2,279,038 for third place after losing his Q-2 against A-K. Martin thus got his lifetime live winnings to over 11.7 million dollars.
Artur Martirosian with a stack of 78,400,000 and Chris Brewer with a stack of 24,900,000 reached the final heads-up. Neither of them had a single bracelet on their account.
Chris Brewer won one hand after another and finally shifted the advantage to his side. After less than an hour of heads-up play, Chris Brewer finally became the winner. He was able to get to the top from the short stack and thus get his first gold bracelet from the WSOP. In addition, he bagged a wonderful reward of $5,293,556. Artur Martirosian took home $3,271,666 for second place.
Finally, we have one more message. The trend of recognizing old and new champions continued in the $10,000 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Championship, which produced 130 entries despite the unconventional format and higher buy-in. Of them, Benny Glaser was the only undefeated one, who, in addition to the $311,428 prize, was also pleased with the fifth bracelet, thanks to which he became the 36th player with such a number of jewels. Congratulations!
Source: Pokernews, WSOP, PokerGO
