See full list on somuchpoker.com. Isaac Haxton checked his option with pocket sixes and hit middle set on the flop. Small blind Jonathan Proudfoot checked, and Haxton checked behind. Ponakovs checked to Ramage, who decided to take. Isaac Haxton checked his option with pocket sixes and hit middle set on the flop. Small blind Jonathan Proudfoot checked, and Haxton checked behind. Ponakovs checked to Ramage, who decided to take. Dec 20, 2018 Isaac Haxton Wins Super High Roller Bowl V “This is my biggest score ever and easily the best accomplishment. This is the highlight of my tournament career,” an elated Isaac Haxton said after winning Super High Roller Bowl V late on Wednesday night inside the PokerGO Studio. American poker pro Isaac Haxton is best known for his vast accomplishments in high-stakes online cash poker games and high-roller live tournaments. Born in New York City, the young-looking 32-year-old Haxton (who bears a slight resemblance to Harry Potter) was raised in Syracuse by his psychiatrist mother and English professor father.
“This is my biggest score ever and easily the best accomplishment. This is the highlight of my tournament career,” an elated Isaac Haxton said after winning Super High Roller Bowl V late on Wednesday night inside the PokerGO Studio.
Haxton crossed the $20 million mark of career tournament earnings with a bang. On Wednesday evening in Las Vegas, in the PokerGO studios at the Aria, Haxton took earned $3.672 million for a victory in the fifth edition of the Super High Roller Bowl.
Haxton is one of the most successful players in the history of the game and there are only a couple of holes in the 33-year-old’s resume. He filled one of them with his victory in the $300,000 buy-in, 36-player field. It wouldn’t come easy as he battled many of the game’s best players and defeated the current GPI #1 ranked player in the game, Alex Foxen, heads-up.
Looking back on the day, Haxton said, “I came in with nearly a quarter of the chips in play and had position on the other big stack, so I was feeling pretty confident.”
“I felt like I was in a great spot coming into today, but obviously it’s still very lucky to come away with the win.”
It Wasn’t Imsirovic’s Day
The final day started at 1 p.m. with the final seven players at the final table and in the money. Haxton came into the day with the chip lead, but with very deep stacks, there wasn’t much chip movement early on. 23-year-old Ali Imsirovic came into the final day as the short stack and was the first player to hit the rail when he clashed with Haxton.
Imsirovic got his money in good with his pocket jacks against Haxton’s ace-five of clubs, but Haxton turned a flush, ultimately sending the up-and-coming star home in seventh.
Kurganov Downfall
Imsirovic’s departure left Igor Kurganov as the short stack. Kurganov doubled up a few times, but then sent most of his stack to Adrian Mateos when Mateos doubled through him. It was a tricky spot with Kurganov flopping two overs and a straight draw in a three-way pot with Mateos and Haxton. Mateos got all in on the flop with pocket aces and Kurganov bricked his draw.
Kurganov was down to his last 12 big blinds and they got into the middle with pocket sevens against Talal Shakerchi’s pocket 10s. Shakerchi’s hand held up and Kurganov was the sixth-place finisher for $756,000. One of the crucial hands in which Kurganov was involved was versus Alex Foxen, and he was kind enough to explain his thought process in the video below.
Three Quick Exits
Haxton was still in the lead five-handed, but the chips were very evenly spread out. Over the next two levels, Mateos became the short stack and Foxen moved into the chip lead. Mateos’s short stack found its way into the middle with pocket nines against Foxen’s ace-king. A king on the flop sealed Mateos’ fate and he was eliminated in fifth.
After Mateos’ elimination, the pace of the action picked up considerably. The chips began to fly and the eliminations racked up.
The first hand after the final four players returned from a break resulted in a bustout. Talal Shakerchi got the last of his chips into the middle with against Haxton’s . Haxton won the flip and Shakerchi was out in fourth.
Just a few hands later, Haxton won another ace, this time against Stephen Chidwick, who started the day second in chips. Chidwick’s chips got into the middle with against Haxton’s pocket jacks.
Heads-Up: Foxen vs Haxton
The flop came jack-high and Chidwick was drawing dead on the turn. Just like that, it was down to Haxton and Foxen. For the first time in quite some time, it wasn’t Foxen with the chip lead.
Early on in Haxton’s poker career, he grinded his way up the stakes playing heads-up no-limit hold’em cash games. His chops in that variant showed as he made quick work of Foxen heads-up.
At the beginning of the heads-up play, Haxton turned the second nut flush and allowed Foxen to bluff into him on turn and river. After folding to Haxton’s river shove, Foxen was down to nearly 9-to-1 in chips.
They got the last of the chips into the middle with Haxton’s up against Foxen’s . Foxen flopped an ace, but wasn’t out of the woods yet with Haxton flopping a gutshot. He didn’t make his straight, but he hit a king on the turn and a jack on the river to make two pair. He eliminated Foxen in second-place to put a close on Foxen’s monster year.
In closing, Haxton added, “It’s easy, in the moment, to fall into putting too much significance into one tournament. It’s a 36-player event and I was the luckiest guy this time and won. I don’t think it changes anything about the player I am or my legacy, but damn does it feel good to win a tournament.”
| Super High Roller Bowl V Final Table Results | |||
| Place | Name | Country | Payout |
| 1 | Isaac Haxton | United States | $3,672,000 |
| 2 | Alex Foxen | United States | $2,160,000 |
| 3 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | $1,512,000 |
| 4 | Talal Shakerchi | United Kingdom | $1,188,000 |
| 5 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $972,000 |
| 6 | Igor Kurganov | Russia | $756,000 |
| 7 | Ali Imsirovic | United States | $540,000 |
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Isaac Haxton became a High Roller Big Game champion on October 25 and saw his bankroll swell by a cool $120,354. Victory in these tournaments is never a simple task because they attract some of the best players in the world. Haxton never plays scared and that certainly showed in this weekend’s event as he shone and emerged as a worthy winner.
High Roller Big Game Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isaac Haxton | Canada | $120,354 |
| 2 | Joao Vieira | Netherlands | $86,268 |
| 3 | Matthias Eibinger | Austria | $61,695 |
| 4 | Ole Schemion | Austria | $43,925 |
| 5 | Christoph Vogelsang | United Kingdom | $32,630 |
| 6 | Carl Lie | Sweden | $25,100 |
| 7 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | $21,353 |
| 8 | Steve O’Dwyer | Netherlands | $17,821 |
Only 16 of the 100 entrants received a slice of the $502,000 prize pool and it was one of our own who burst the money bubble. Roberto Romanello fell in 17th place and was the last player to go home empty-handed.
British duo Rob Yong and Tom Hall were the first players to cash, each collected $10,040. Justin Bonomo was another star who saw a return on their investment. As was Artur Martirosian and Juan Pardo, the latter bursting the final table bubble.
Steve O’Dwyer and the Swedish legend Niklas Astedt were the final table’s first casualties. Carl Lie, Christoph Vogelsang, and the high roller specialist Ole Schemion joined that pair on the sidelines.
Matthias Eibinger fell in third and left Haxton to fight it out with Joao Vieira heads-up. Haxton proved too strong for Vieira and he brushed him aside to claim the $120,354 top prize, which resigned Vieira to an $86,268 consolation prize.
Big Game Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fabio Sperling | United Kingdom | $48,190 |
| 2 | Stevan Chew | Canada | $34,323 |
| 3 | Olivier Rebello-Frechette | Canada | $23,397 |
| 4 | Alexandros Theologis | United Kingdom | $16,362 |
| 5 | David Lopez | United Kingdom | $11,519 |
| 6 | Sergei Denisov | Russia | $8,325 |
| 7 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | $5,995 |
| 8 | Vikanty Shegal | Canada | $4,856 |
WPT500 champion Fabio Sperling is now also a Big Game champion after coming out on top in this weekend’s event.
Sperling saw his $530 buy-in turn into a massive $48,190 after defeating Canada-based Australian Stevan Chew heads-up. Chew had to make do with the $34,323 second-place prize, which is still a very healthy return on a $530 investment.
Plenty of other big names made it to the final table, including Andras Nemeth, Sergei Denisov, David Lopez, and Alexandros Theologis.
Mini Big Game Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leandro Wienskoski | Brazil | $15,458* |
| 2 | Aleksey Konoplev | Russia | $14,716* |
| 3 | Marek Szewczyk | Poland | $8,060 |
| 4 | Tautvydas Buskevicius | United Kingdom | $5,408 |
| 5 | Jonathan Ramos | Qatar | $3,796 |
| 6 | Steven Coene | Netherlands | $2,613 |
| 7 | Ivan Sergeyev | Ukraine | $1,795 |
| 8 | Istvan Habencius | Hungary | $1,336 |
*reflects a heads-up deal
The Mini Big Game was only mini in name thanks to 2,144 players forking out $55 and creating a guarantee-busting $107,105 prize pool. This event ended in a heads-up chop with the last standing pair of players sharing more than $30,000.
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Russia’s Aleksey Konoplev is credited with finishing in second place, a finished that weighed in at $14,716. Leandro Wienskoski of Brazil officially won the Mini Big Game and walked away with $15,458 for a $55 buy-in!
Some of the other Daily Legends results include:
- “Oil-trader” – first-place in the $1,111 High Roller One Shot for $41,939
- “SpaceyFCB” – first-place in the $320 The 300 for $22,953*
- “Gytis” – first-place in the $109 Weekender for $19,394*
- “hummylun” – first-place in the $777 Magnificent 77 for $19,290*
- “Disco_Stu” – first-place in the $111 One Shot for $16,970
- “Astpatapotaita” – first-place in the $55 Gladiator for $16,083*
- “Nutsinpre” – first-place in the $22 Predator for $10,661*
- “SeanWotherepoon” – first-place in the $33 Triple Barrel for $8,712*
- “RalphSpew” – first-place in the $22 Clasico for $5,571
- “AquiNNenem” – first-place in the $11 Terminator for $4,816*
- “Bet0sauros” – first-place in the $77 Magnificent 77 for $4,450*
- “pr03ra” – first-place in the $33 Grind for $4,111
- “Smokking” – first-place in the $22 Blade for $3,717*
- “PCAmish” – first-place in the $11 Mini One Shot for $3,363
- “rmmatoso” – first-place in the $5.50 Five Diamond for $1,827 plus a $55 Masters ticket
- “Liaserg99” – first-place in the $2.20 Brawl for $1,059 plus a $22 Predator ticket
- “fishman_86” – first-place in the $5.50 Flash for $959* plus a $55 Gladiator ticket
- “HOTChikaVIKA88” – first-place in the $2.20 Deuce for $536 plus a $22 Clasico ticket
*includes bounty payments
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