Tunisia’s Maher Nouira scooped the 6-max $25k SHR at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus this evening for $333,000, defeating Adrian Mateos heads-up to add a PGT title to his EPT Super High Roller win earlier this year.
Maher Nouira (courtesy of PGT.com)There were 41 entries to the third of eleven SHR events on the PokerGO Tour stop in Kyrenia, up two on events 1 and 2 and boding well for the bigger buy-in events still to come, including the $300k buy-in Super High Roller Bowl this weekend.
The likes of Phil Ivey , Mikita Badziakouski, Koray Aldemir, and Jeremy Ausmus all fell on day one and when the remaining magnificent seven returned for day two, the first port of call was the money bubble.
China’s Ren Lin had secured back-to-back final tables, but he was unable to add to his 5th place cash yesterday, losing a ‘hanging on for dear life’ battle of the short stacks, his final two bigs in against Mateos…
Lin: Q♥ 2♠
Mateos: J♦ 3♦
Flop: 8♠ 9♥ 6♠ Turn: J♥
River: A♦
That left the remaining six assured of $65,000, with five times that up top, along with crucial leaderboard points in the race for the PGT cup.
Ju, the other very short stack, wouldn’t survive much longer and he was joined on the rail by Daniel Dvoress, the Canadian becoming the third bustout in less than ten minutes…
Dvoress: Q♣ J♣
Nouira: A♥ Q♥
Flop: 2♦ 10♥ 3♣ Turn: K♦
River: 5♠
Nouira continued to shine, pocket queens ousting Bulgaria’s Yulian Bogdanov in 4th spot, who leaped into his countries top 10 moneywinners on the back of his $122,000.
When Canada’s Jamil Wakil feel in 3rd spot, it was Tunisia against Spain for the title, Mateos with the better resume but Nouira with the big chip lead.
Adrian Mateos at this year’s (courtesy of PokerGO)A double with big slick followed by rivered trips brought Mateos close to parity, but it wasn’t to be for the Spaniard known as “El Conquistador”…
Mateos: 10♠ 4♠
Nouira: 10♣ 9♦
Flop: 8♦ A♣ J♠ Turn: Q♦
River: 5♣
With the pot sitting at 2.6million, Nouira – having turned the second nut straight – checked and Mateos jumped in feet first for his last 2million chips.
The instacall sealed his fate, giving Nouira the $333,000 first-place prize, 200 PGT points, and a PGT Gold Cup.
2024 Super High Roller Series Event #3 Results
PlacePlayerCountryPrize MoneyPGT Points1stMaher NouiraTunisia$333,0002002ndAdrian MateosSpain$231,0001393rdJamil WakilCanada$166,0001004thYulian BogdanovBulgaria$122,000735thDaniel DvoressCanada$87,500536thSamuel JuGermany$65,00039While Nouira was picking up his trophy, event #4 on the schedule – the $51,500 No-Limit Hold’em (7-Max) – was still playing down to a final table.
We’ll pick that one up for you tomorrow, Wednesday, when Event #5: $102,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, also kicks off. Thursday sees a little breather (of sorts!) on the bank accounts, with event #6: $25,750 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty, and then we have the monster $306,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl IX starting on Friday. Events 8, 9 and 10 are all PLO tournaments to round out the series.
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