Wiktor Malinowski Wins Super High Roller Bowl Europe for $3,690,000
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Day 2 of the inaugural Super High Roller Bowl Europe kicked off from Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus on Tuesday with the 35-entrant field expanding to 41 entrants once registration closed. Following a long day on the felt, that began with 22 players, just the final six would remain with Poland’s Wiktor Malinowski holding the chip lead heading into Wednesday’s final table.
The Merit Poker presents Super High Roller Series Europe is sponsored by Luxon Pay and GGPoker and features the $250,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl Europe as the main attraction. Events will be streamed for free on PokerGO. The series takes place at Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus. All events are part of the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate, with players earning points based on the amount they cash for. The full PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate schedule can be found here and the current leaderboard is available here.
The final day began with David Peters scoring a double on the first hand with quads to send Ruan to the bottom of the leaderboard. Ruan doubled through Viacheslav Buldygin with pocket tens against ace-seven, before the Russian exited in sixth-place when his ace-deuce was outdrawn by Ivan Leow’s queen-jack. Leow would double into second place courtesy of Peters when his pocket nines cracked Peters’ pocket kings. While Malinowski extended his lead on top, Peters would be eliminated in fifth-place when his pocket fours were outdrawn by the ace-nine of Leow.
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Timothy Adams was looking for his record-tying third Super High Roller Bowl title, but his run ended in fourth-place when he three-bet shoved jack-ten but ran into the pocket aces of Malinowski. Adams flopped a straight draw, but when the turn and river blanked out, Malinowski sat with nearly half the chips in play as players went on break. Once play resumed, Zhuang Ruan would be eliminated in third-place. Ruan opened pocket aces and Leow defended his big blind with eight-seven. Leow flopped middle pair and check-called a bet before turning a gutshot. Ruan pushed all-in, and after using four time extensions, Leow called and spiked his straight on the river to see the tournament reduced to the final two.
Leow began heads-up play with the chip lead, but it was Malinowski who soon took the lead and then went to work extending it eventually reaching a 7.4 million to 2.8 million chip lead. Leow wasn’t content on second-place yet, as he worked on closing the gap before drawing to near-even in chips when his ace-jack flopped two pair and found two streets of value against Malinowski’s inferior two pair. The two players went back-and-forth as each player took their turn holding the chip lead. Before players headed on a break, the first all-in of heads-up play would occer, before the second occurred once play resumed with Malinowski all-in holding ace-king against Leow’s ace-four. The board blanked out, and Malinowski’s kicker played as he doubled to 9.6 million leaving Leow with just 600,000. The final hand would see Leow all-in holding jack-four against the nine-eight of Malinowski. The eight on the turn would be the final blow to Leow as he was eliminated in second-place for nearly $2.5 million, while Malinowski was crowned the Super High Roller Bowl Europe champion and collected the $3,690,000 first-place prize.
Malinowski joins a list of players that include Justin Bonomo, Brian Rast, Rainer Kempe, Christoph Vogelsang, Isaac Haxton, Cary Katz, Daniel Dvoress, and Adams as Super High Roller Bowl winners. Malinowski also leaps into second on Poland’s All Time Money List behind Dzmitry Urbanovich to sit with nearly $4.4 million in lifetime tournament earnings.
| Super High Roller Bowl Europe Payouts | ||||
| Place | Name | Country | PokerGO Tour Points | Prize |
| 1st | Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | 600 | $3,690,000 |
| 2nd | Ivan Leow | Malaysia | 500 | $2,460,000 |
| 3rd | Zhuang Ruan | United States | 400 | $1,640,000 |
| 4th | Timothy Adams | Canada | 400 | $1,127,500 |
| 5th | David Peters | United States | 246 | $820,000 |
| 6th | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 154 | $512,500 |
As a result of the Super High Roller Bowl Europe concluding, David Peters climbs into sixth place on the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate leaderboard with 1,392 points. Zhuang Ruan sits in 19th place with 738 points, while Ivan Leow and Wiktor Malinowski sit in 25th and 26th place respectively. Timothy Adams makes his debut on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard and sits in 46th place, while Viacheslav Buldygin sits in 64th place from his two cashes during the series.
| PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate Leaderboard | |||||
| Rank | Name | Points | Wins | Cashes | Earnings |
| 1st | Ali Imsirovic | 2,673 | 9 | 23 | $3,378,460 |
| 2nd | Sean Perry | 2,021 | 5 | 18 | $2,890,698 |
| 3rd | Sam Soverel | 1,646 | 3 | 17 | $2,446,251 |
| 4th | Sean Winter | 1,614 | 2 | 16 | $2,633,320 |
| 5th | Cary Katz | 1,505 | 2 | 18 | $2,517,330 |
| 6th | David Peters | 1,392 | 3 | 9 | $2,926,870 |
| 7th | Chris Brewer | 1,365 | 2 | 17 | $2,064,020 |
| 8th | Andrew Moreno | 1,200 | 1 | 1 | $1,460,105 |
| 9th | Clayton Maguire | 1,200 | 0 | 1 | $1,443,757 |
| 10th | Toby Lewis | 1,200 | 0 | 1 | $1,235,204 |
Note: Leaderboard accurate as of date of article.
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Wiktor Malinowski Leads Final 6 Players in Super High Roller Bowl Europe – $3.7 Million for the Winner
Day 2 of the inaugural Super High Roller Bowl Europe kicked off from Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus on Tuesday with the 35-entrant field expanding to 41 entrants once registration closed. Following a long day on the felt, that began with 22 players, just the final six would remain with Poland’s Wiktor Malinowski holding the chip lead heading into Wednesday’s final table.
The Merit Poker presents Super High Roller Series Europe is sponsored by Luxon Pay and GGPoker and features the $250,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl Europe as the main attraction. Events will be streamed for free on PokerGO. The series takes place at Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus. All events are part of the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate, with players earning points based on the amount they cash for. The full PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate schedule can be found here and the current leaderboard is available here.
With registration closing once cards were in the air, seven players joined the field to see the 41-entrant Super High Roller Bowl Europe yield a $10,250,000 prize pool that paid the final six players. The eventual winner would stand to take home $3,690,000 in prize money and join the likes of Justin Bonomo, Rainer Kempe, Timothy Adams, Christoph Vogelsang, Cary Katz, and Isaac Haxton and Super High Roller Bowl winners.
David Coleman, Mikita Badziakouski, Stephen Chidwick, Event #1 winner Phil Ivey, and Event #3 and #7 winner Tony G were all early casualties on Day 2. Once Linus Loeliger was eliminated in tenth-place, it would be Ivan Leow and David Peters sharing a near-equal chip lead over the final nine players.
David Stamm exited in ninth-place when his pocket kings were outdrawn by the pocket eights of Leow, while Michael Addamo exited in eighth-place when his king-queen was unable to spike against the ace-king of Zhuang Ruan. Although he held the chip lead at various stages at the final table, Ali Imsirovic would be eliminated on the money bubble when he four-bet shoved ace-deuce but was called by Malinowski’s ace-king. Imsirovic flopped a wheel draw but bricked out and was eliminated in seventh-place on the money bubble as play ended for Day 2 with just six players remaining.
| Super High Roller Bowl Europe Final Table | |||
| Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Zhuang Ruan | United States | 1,800,000 |
| 2 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 2,300,000 |
| 3 | David Peters | United States | 1,350,000 |
| 4 | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 305,000 |
| 5 | Ivan Leow | Malaysia | 1,500,000 |
| 6 | Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | 3,000,000 |
Malinowski holds the chip lead at the final table on the back of his elimination of Imsirovic on the money bubble. Malinowski has two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Timothy Adams snapping at his heels as he’ll be looking to join Bonomo as a three-time champion. Zhuang Ruan made a splash at the recent Seminole High Rollers, and he’ll be looking to double his career earnings if he finishes in at least fifth-place. Ivan Leow sits in fourth overall and can move into third on the Malaysia All Time Money List with a win. Two-time U.S. Poker Open champion David Peters sits in fifth overall, and with a victory, he can move into third-place on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard presented by Guaranteed Rate. Viacheslav Buldygin rounds out the final table in sixth-place, but if he can turn it around and win, he’ll soar into seventh-place on Russia’s All Time Money List.
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| Super High Roller Bowl Europe Payouts | ||
| Place | PokerGO Tour Points | Prize |
| 1st | 600 | $3,690,000 |
| 2nd | 500 | $2,460,000 |
| 3rd | 400 | $1,640,000 |
| 4th | 400 | $1,127,5000 |
| 5th | 246 | $820,000 |
| 6th | 154 | $512,500 |
The Super High Roller Bowl Europe final table will be available to watch on PokerGO.com from 7 a.m. ET with Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt providing commentary of all the action until the winner is crowned.
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Super High Roller Bowl Europe Day 1 Concludes with Michael Zhang Leading 22 Players
The inaugural Super High Roller Bowl Europe kicked off from Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus on Monday with Day 1 attracting 35 entrants. Following six levels of play, the field was reduced to 22 players with Michael Zhang holding the chip lead over the Event #6 winner Artur Martirosyan and two-time Super High Roller Bowl champion Timothy Adams.
The Merit Poker presents Super High Roller Series Europe is sponsored by Luxon Pay and GGPoker and features the $250,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl Europe as the main attraction. Events will be streamed for free on PokerGO. The series takes place at Merit Royal Hotel Casino & Spa in North Cyprus. All events are part of the PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate, with players earning points based on the amount they cash for. The full PokerGO Tour presented by Guaranteed Rate schedule can be found here and the current leaderboard is available here.
Along with Adams, previous Super High Roller Bowl champions Christoph Vogelsang and Cary Katz were among the 28 unique entrants along with Super High Roller Series Europe Event #1 winner Phil Ivey. Other PokerGO Tour regulars that took a seat on Day 1 included Chris Brewer, Ali Imsirovic, David Peters, Jake Schindler, David Coleman, Stephen Chidwick, and Seth Davies, along with notables Timofey Kuznetsov, Mikita Badziakouski, Michael Addamo, Paul Phua, and Richard Yong.
Super High Roller Bowl 2017 champion Vogelsang was one of the first casualties when his pocket kings were cut down by runner-runner trips before Adams joined him on the rail before both players re-entered the field after exercising their single re-entry option. Brewer would run ace-queen into the ace-king of Imsirovic but soon re-entered along with Ivan Leow. Unfortunately for Brewer, he would see his final bullet end at the hands of Leow when he lost a race holding pocket nines against ace-ten. As play entered into Level 6, Pascal Lefrancois, Sergio Aido, Addamo, and Imsirovic all were eliminated, while Vogelsang joined Brewer officially on the sidelines as Day 1 ended with 22 players remaining.
Leading those players is England’s Zhang who finished with 1,056,000 in chips ahead of Martirosyan (832,000) and Adams (779,000). Other players among the leaders include Kuznetsov (476,000), Davies (417,000), and Ivey (404,000), while others reaching Day 2 include Linus Loeliger, Danny Tang, Cary Katz, Badziakouski, Yong, Chidwick, Schindler, and Peters.
| Super High Roller Bowl Europe Top Ten Chip Counts | |||
| Rank | Name | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Michael Zhang | United Kingdom | 1,056,000 |
| 2 | Artur Martirosyan | Russia | 832,000 |
| 3 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 779,000 |
| 4 | Ivan Leow | Malaysia | 654,000 |
| 5 | Timofey Kuznetsov | Russia | 476,000 |
| 6 | Paul Phua | Malaysia | 441,000 |
| 7 | Seth Davies | United States | 417,000 |
| 8 | Phil Ivey | United States | 404,000 |
| 9 | Viacheslav Buldygin | Russia | 393,000 |
| 10 | Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | 383,000 |
The 35-entrant field has yielded nearly a $9 million prize pool, but registration remains open until the start of play on Day 2. Players that re-enter or late register will begin with 250,000 in chips with beginning blinds of 2,500-5,000 and a 5,000-big blind ante.
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