Seat 2: Stephen Chidwick (United Kingdom) – 2,405,000
Like Ali Imsirovic, Stephen Chidwick is looking to score his second major high roller title of the year. Last February, Chidwick dominated the U.S. Poker Open. He cashed in five of the eight events, winning two of them, en route to becoming the U.S. Poker Open champion.
Unlike Imsirovic, Chidwick has been on top of the poker world for quite some time. He made his mark playing online ‘Stevie444’ before transitioning to the live world and continuing to dominate. The British pro is 23rd on the all-time money list, having earned over $18 million in his career. Coming in second in chips makes Chidwick one of the favorites to take down today’s final table.
Seat 3: Isaac Haxton (USA) – 2,415,000
Isaac Haxton comes into Wednesday’s Super High Roller Bowl final table as the chip leader. He used a strong last level on Tuesday to move to the top of the counts and just barely edged out Chidwick for the chip lead. Haxton was one of the original beasts of online poker.
While studying at Brown University, the New Yorker spent more time studying poker than he did for his computer science degree. He eventually dropped out and focused solely on poker. He rapidly ascended the stakes online playing under the name ‘luvthewnba’ and burst onto the live scene when he was 21.
In a poker landscape where pros are becoming more and more specialized, Haxton still spends a ton of time playing both the highest stakes cash games and tournaments. He won the $10,000 short deck no-limit hold’em last September at the Poker Masters and coming into today, has already earned just shy of $20 million in his career playing live tournaments.
Seat 4: Igor Kurganov (Russia) – 1,550,000
It is getting a bit repetitive to tell you that someone at this Super High Roller Bowl final table is one of the best in the world. So I won’t tell you that about Igor Kurganov, but keep in mind that he is. The Russian regularly plays in $25,000 and $50,000 buy-ins with great success. In fact, with the exception of the WSOP Europe Main Event, every single one of Kurganov’s cashes in 2018 have been at that buy-in level.
By making it through yesterday’s Day 2, he locked up his biggest cash of 2018 with at least $540,000 coming his way. He is half of one of poker’s premier power couples, having dated Liv Boeree, another high-stakes pro for several years. Kurganov and Boeree teamed up to win their first WSOP bracelet in 2017 in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em tag team event.
Seat 5: Talal Shakerchi (United Kingdom) – 995,000
Talal Shakerchi is the oldest player at the final table at 54 years of age, but that doesn’t stop him from mixing it up on the felt with players half his age.
Although spending his time in the finance world, Shakerchi has results stretching back to 2007 with his career tournament earnings sitting at just over $5 million. Shakerchi has collected eight victories in his career – the majority of those being high roller tournaments – with his biggest result being an EPT $10,300 High Roller win for £436,330. Just a few days before Super High Roller Bowl V kicked off, Shakerchi collected a sixth place in the Bellagio $100k High Roller for $222,000.
Any result of sixth place or better for Shakerchi will be his biggest career score to date, and if he is to climb the mountain and capture the Super High Roller Bowl V title, he will move into the top 90 of the All-Time Money List ahead of Johnny Chan.
Seat 6: Alex Foxen (USA) – 1,590,000
Alex Foxen is having the best year of his career that sees him currently ranked number one on the Global Poker Index with career tournament earnings of over $6.7 million.
Late in 2017, Foxen finished runner-up in the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. That finish was the catapult to sending Foxen on an unbelievable run all around the world. He captured wins in California, Macau, Las Vegas, and Florida, but just this past week is where Foxen hit his true form at the perfect time.
With the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic taking place next door at the Bellagio, Foxen defeated Stephen Chidwick heads-up to win the $5,200 No-Limit Hold’em side event, before registering two more final tables after that to more then fund the buy-in for his first ever Super High Roller Bowl. Day 2 appeared to be a dream for Foxen as he rocketed up the leaderboard to hold 25% of the chips in play at one point, but after hitting a few road bumps, he fell to the middle of the pack where he is currently sitting.
If Foxen is to prove victorious today, he will see his career tournament earnings surpass $10 million and he’ll move into the top 70 knocking out Koray Aldemir.
Seat 7: Adrian Mateos (Spain) – 975,000
At just 24 years old, Adrian Mateos is already the most accomplished player from Spain as he sits atop the Spain All-Time Money List with $16.2 million in career tournament earnings.
Mateos broke onto the tournament circuit with several wins in Spain before he collected the 2013 WSOP Europe Main Event bracelet for €1,000,000. Two years later, Mateos won the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final for €1,082,000 before he added a second WSOP Bracelet the next year. From then on, Mateos has been a staple on the high roller circuit and in 2017 cashed for over $5.8 million.
Not including Super High Roller Bowl V, so far in 2018 Mateos has registered 25 cashes with seven of those coming at the ARIA Resort & Casino. 20 of those cashes have been final table appearances and he has three wins to see him sitting at $4 million in tournament earnings. With a second-place finish today, Mateos can have his biggest winning year to date, and with a win he can move into 21st place on the All-Time Money List behind Isaac Haxton.
Delayed Updates of Super High Roller Bowl V Final Table
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Isaac Haxton Leads Super High Roller Bowl V Final Table; $3.672 Million for the Winner
Welcome back to the ARIA Resort & Casino and the PokerGO Studio for the $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl V final table.
The fifth edition of the Super High Roller Bowl began two days ago as a 36-player field created a prize pool that eclipsed $10 million. First prize would be reserved at $3,672,000 along with prized possession of the Super High Roller Bowl ring, as the eventual winner would join the likes of Brian Rast (2015), Rainer Kempe (2016), Christoph Vogelsang (2017), and Justin Bonomo (2018), who can all call themselves a Super High Roller Bowl Champion.
In the early hours of Wednesday, the hand-for-hand play continued for roughly three hours as the remaining eight players were incredibly deep. Eventually, it would be the 2018 fourth-place finisher Mikita Badziakouski bubbling the final table when he lost a race holding [ac][kd] against Stephen Chidwick‘s [ts][th] to ensure the final seven players of a Super High Roller Bowl V final table spot alongside a guaranteed $540,000 payday.
Leading the final seven players is high rollers regular Isaac Haxton who claimed the chip lead with 2,415,000 in chips after dominating his table on the bubble. Haxton only just edged out Chidwick who finished with 2,405,000 on the back of the Badziakouski elimination. The reigning U.S. Poker Open champion also eliminated Daniel Negreanu in ninth place and will be hoping to parlay this run into his biggest career score-to-date if he can finish in third place or better. Alex Foxen dominated the majority of Day 2 coverage as he was the man behind some of the biggest pots and eliminations. Foxen eliminated both Justin Bonomo and Sean Winter in two of the biggest pots of the tournament, and although his final few levels of the day saw him slip from the top, Foxen still managed to bag the third biggest stack with 1,590,000.
Right on Foxen’s heels is Igor Kurganov who quietly navigated up the leaderboard to end with 1,550,000. The final three players include Talal Shakerchi (995,000), Adrian Mateos (975,000), and reigning Poker Masters Purple Jacket winner Ali Imsirovic (875,000).
Here is a look at the seat draw for Wednesday’s final table:
| Super High Roller Bowl V Final Table | |||
| Seat | Name | Country | Chip Count |
| 1 | Ali Imsirovic | United States | 875,000 |
| 2 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 2,405,000 |
| 3 | Isaac Haxton | United States | 2,415,000 |
| 4 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | 1,550,000 |
| 5 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | 995,000 |
| 6 | Alex Foxen | United States | 1,590,000 |
| 7 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 975,000 |
The cards are expected to be in the air for the Super High Roller Bowl V final table at 4 p.m. ET with the Poker Central team providing continuous live updates to coincide with the exclusive live stream available on PokerGO which will begin at 5 p.m. ET.
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