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.