Phil Ivey Wins Overall SHR Series Champion Title
Much of the PokerGO Tour takes place in Las Vegas. It is the nature of the year-long high-stakes poker tournament series, as many of the events are PokerGO events and take place in the PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. So, when the opportunity arises to play some PokerGO Tour events in a place like Cyprus, many players can’t get there fast enough.
The most prominent of the recent events on the tour comprised the Super High Roller Series Europe 2022. That series also featured a Super High Roller Bowl and several events on the Triton Super High Roller Series.
It was an exciting couple weeks of high-stakes poker action from a beautiful location. PokerGO brought much of the action via livestreams and live updates, so we’ll simply provide a rundown of the results.
Super High Roller Europe in Cyprus
The Super High Roller series is a collection of tournaments surrounding the Super High Roller Bowl. The European version offered Hold’em, Omaha, and Short Deck tournaments. Buy-ins for the series were $25K and $50K, creating multiple million-dollar-plus prize pools.
| Event 1 | $25K PLO | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 40 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,000,000 | |
| Players paid: | 6 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Tom Vogelsang (Netherlands) $360,000 |
| Event 2 | $50K Short Deck | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 42 | |
| Total prize pool: | $2,100,000 | |
| Players paid: | 6 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Mikita Badziakouski (Belarus) $756,000 |
| Event 3 | $25K NLHE | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 64 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,600,000 | |
| Players paid: | 10 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Marius Gierse (Germany) $432,000 |
| Event 4 | $50K PLO | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 32 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,600,000 | |
| Players paid: | 5 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Phil Ivey (USA) $640,000 |
| Event 5 | $50K Short Deck | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 32 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,600,000 | |
| Players paid: | 5 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Danny Tang (Hong Kong) $640,000 |
| Event 6 | $50K NLHE | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 43 | |
| Total prize pool: | $2,150,000 | |
| Players paid: | 7 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Daniel Dvoress (Canada) $731,000 |
| Event 7 | $25K PLO | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 20 | |
| Total prize pool: | $500,000 | |
| Players paid: | 3 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Eelis Parssinen (Finland) $270,000 |
| Event 8 | $50K NLHE | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 38 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,900,000 | |
| Players paid: | 6 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Elton Tsang (Hong Kong) $684,000 |
| Event 9 | $50K Short Deck | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 19 | |
| Total prize pool: | $950,000 | |
| Players paid: | 3 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Lee Wai Kiat (Malaysia) $513,000 |
| Event 10 | $25K NLHE Turbo | Super High Roller Series Europe 2022 |
| Total entries: | 31 | |
| Total prize pool: | $775,000 | |
| Players paid: | 5 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Timothy Adams (Canada) $310,000 |
Then, there was the featured event of the SHR series, the Super High Roller Bowl. That one required a buy-in of $250K and garnered 32 total entries. Only seven men made it through the first day of action, though only five would finish in the money.
Jake Schindler entered that second day with the chip lead, with Christoph Vogelsang in second and Teun Mulder third in chip counts. Michael Addamo was the first elimination of Day 2, and three hours later, Ali Imsirovic busted on the $560K money bubble.
Mulder was the first to collect that min-cash, courtesy of Schindler. Paul Phua ousted Tim Adams in fourth, and Schindler sent Vogelsang out in third. Schindler then took 5.7M chips into heads-up against Phua and his 2.3M chips. Schindler took and kept control, fairly quickly besting Phua’s Q-4 with Q-J to win the Super High Roller Bowl and $3.2M.
| $250K buy-in | Super High Roller Bowl Europe 2022 | |
| Total entries: | 32 | |
| Total prize pool: | $8,000,000.00 | |
| Players paid: | 5 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Jake Schindler (USA) $3,200,000 |
| 2nd place: | Paul Phua (Malaysia) $2,080,000 | |
| 3rd place: | Christoph Vogelsang (Germany) $1,280,000 | |
| 4th place: | Timothy Adams (Canada) $880,000 | |
| 5th place: | Teun Mulder (Netherlands) $560,000 |
Jake Schindler wins Super High Roller Bowl Europe for $3,200,000.https://t.co/QE2Fkwuwsx
— PokerGO Tour (@PokerGOTour) April 15, 2022
PokerGO tallied points throughout the series to determine the overall winner. One player came out on top…by a large margin. Phil Ivey won Event 4 in this series and finished second in Event 2. That put him over $1.14M in earnings for this particular series. The top five on the Super High Roller Europe leaderboard were:
Phil Ivey = 1,725 points
Daniel Dvoress = 1,155 points
Jason Koon = 1,139 points
Elton Tsang = 1,063 points
Danny Tang = 969 points
Phil Ivey is the overall Super High Roller Series Europe champion after winning more than $2,800,000 from two wins and five cashes.https://t.co/GHEZbEiu1o
— PokerGO Tour (@PokerGOTour) April 15, 2022
Triton Super High Roller Series in Cyprus
The folks at Triton Poker were excited to offer their first series since 2019 because…you know…the ‘rona. This schedule coincided with the Super High Roller Series because it put high rollers all in one place. And the Triton tournaments were a part of the PokerGO Tour.
There were originally four events on the Triton Cyprus series, but then there were six, and Event 4 disappeared somewhere along the way. There are five tournament results from this series, with one having reduced its buy-in from $150K to $75K.
And the results of this series were:
| Event 1 | $50K NLHE 6-Max | Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus |
| Total entries: | 82 | |
| Total prize pool: | $3,936,000 | |
| Players paid: | 11 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Andras Nemeth (Hungary) $1,082,000 |
| Event 2 | $100K NLHE | Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus |
| Total entries: | 69 | |
| Total prize pool: | $6,624,000 | |
| Players paid: | 9 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Teun Mulder (Netherlands) $1,940,000 |
| Event 3 | $75K Short Deck | Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus |
| Total entries: | 51 | |
| Total prize pool: | $3,706,500 | |
| Players paid: | 7 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Phil Ivey (USA) $1,170,000 |
| Event 5 | $75K Short Deck | Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus |
| Total entries: | 41 | |
| Total prize pool: | $2,976,000 | |
| Players paid: | 6 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Winfred Yu (Hong Kong) $1,010,000 |
| Event 6 | $50K NLHE Turbo | Triton Super High Roller Series Cyprus |
| Total entries: | 41 | |
| Total prize pool: | $1,988,500 | |
| Players paid: | 6 | |
| Final table results: | 1st place: | Matthias Eibinger (Austria) $676,000 |
🎆 Congratulations Winfred Yu 🇭🇰, winner of Event 5, the second $75k Short Deck tournament at #TritonCyprus2020!
Winfred collects his 2nd #TritonPoker trophy after beating a field of 41 entries to claim USD $1.01million 💰
📜 Full Recap: https://t.co/bsypYRrEoS pic.twitter.com/YuKbadCecL
— Triton Poker (@tritonpoker) April 7, 2022
Off to Vegas
It’s back to Las Vegas for the PokerGO crew and the high-stakes players. The Stairway to Millions starts on April 19 with a bargain-basement buy-in of $3,200. At the same time and at the same property, Aria will host more of its Aria High Roller events. And there will be a Heads-Up Showdown on April 21.
| PokerGO Tour | Season 2 | Upcoming… |
| 19-Apr | $3K NLHE | Stairway to Millions #1 (US – NV) |
| 20-Apr | $10K NLHE | Aria High Roller #4 (US – NV) |
| 21-Apr | $25K NLHE | Heads-Up Showdown (US – NV) |
| 22-Apr | $10K NLHE | Aria High Roller #5 (US – NV) |
| 23-Apr | $15K NLHE | Aria High Roller #6 (US – NV) |
🔎 Tournament Spotlight 🌍 PokerGO Tour – PGT Heads-Up Showdown
📅 21-23 April
📍 Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas 🇺🇸
🔗 Schedule: https://t.co/E8pDmtgZpH
ℹ https://t.co/MBnr6Mmhje @PokerGOTour pic.twitter.com/DforCmx59P— The Hendon Mob (@TheHendonMob) April 16, 2022
