Timothy Adams Wins Back-to-Back Super High Roller Bowl Titles
Timothy Adams won the 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Sochi event less than a month after he triumphed in the inaugural Australian event. This latest victory netted Adams a career-best $3,600,000, surpassing the $3,536,550 he netted for winning the 2019 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju Main Event.
2020 Super High Roller Bowl Sochi Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Timothy Adams | Canada | $3,600,000 |
| 2 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | $2,400,000 |
| 3 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | $1,600,000 |
| 4 | Ben Heath | United Kingdom | $1,000,000 |
| 5 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $800,000 |
| 6 | Ivan Leow | Malaysia | $600,000 |
Forty entries, each costing $250,000, were processed while late registration was open, thus a $10 million prize pool was created.
Day 1 ended with Jason Koon as the chip leader courtesy of a 745,000 stack. Paul Phua, a recent partypoker MILLIONS Super High Roller Series Sochi champion, was close behind Koon with 666,500 chips. Adams finished the opening flight in 10th place.
The second day��s action finished with only seven players in contention for a slice of that $10 million pie, meaning the tournament was on the stone-cold bubble.
Ben Heath held the chip lead with fellow Brit Stephen Chidwick being the final table��s shortest stack.
| Seat | Player | Country | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ivan Leow | Malaysia | 720,000 |
| 2 | Mikita Badziakouski | Belarus | 960,000 |
| 3 | Ben Heath | united Kingdom | 2,500,000 |
| 4 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | 2,060,000 |
| 5 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | 430,000 |
| 6 | Timothy Adams | Canada | 1,380,000 |
| 7 | Christoph Vogelsang | Germany | 1,950,000 |
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It didn��t take too long for the money bubble to burst on Day 3, despite there being a min-cash of $600,000 on the line.
Chidwick was attempting to rebuild his stack and had just won a set of blinds and antes with a raise. He now faced a raise to 70,000 from Christoph Vogelsang, which he decided to call from the big blind with jack-nine. The flop came queen-high and gave Chidwick a gutshot straight draw. He led out for his last 140,000 and Vogelsang called with ace-three. Vogelsang caught an unnecessary ace on the river to bust Chidwick on the bubble.
Ivan Leow was the first player to collect some prize money. Chidwick��s seat hadn��t even gone cold when Vogelsang raised to 60,000 with queen-seven of diamonds and Leow called on the button with ace-seven. Vogelsang made two pair on the flop, Leow a pair of sevens. Leow jammed for 300,000 over the top of Vogelsang��s 55,000 continuation bet and the German called. No ace on the turn or river resulted in Leow falling in sixth-place for $600,000.
Mateos Goes From hero to Zero In 30-Minutes
Adrian Mateos soared into the chip lead after doubling through Adams, but then lost three flips in a row, the third sending him home in fifth-place for $800,000.
That final hand saw Heath open from the small blind with ace-queen and Mateos three-bet all-in for exactly 1,000,000 with pocket deuces. Two aces on the flop left Mateos drawing thin and he was drawing dead by the turn.
Four-handed play spanned seven hours and end with Heath falling by the wayside. Heath chose queen-six to move all-in with for 12 big blinds from the small blind. Adams called with ace-deuce, which somehow held despite heath flopping an open-ended straight draw.
A few hands later and heads-up was set with the exit of Mikita Badziakouski. The Team partypoker pro won a Super High Roller event in Sochi only a few days ago and collected an additional $1,600,000 for this third-place finish.
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Badziakouski Busts to Set Heads-Up
Vogelsang was first to act in the small blind and he raised enough to set Badziakouski all-in. The bet was instantly called and Badziakouski turned over ace-queen which was ahead of Vogelsang��s jack-three. That was until the flop came down with a jack and a three on it! The turn put four spades into view but the river was a brick and Badziakouski was gone.
Adams held 4,425,000 chips to Vogelsang��s 5,575,000 and a long heads-up battle looked likely. Action went back and forth before Adams started to forge a lead for himself. Vogelsang clawed his way back in, Adams pulled back ahead and that��s how it went for a while.
The players decided to completely skip the 75,00/150,000 blind level and go straight to 100,000/200,000. It was game over not long after.
All the chips went into the middle, Vogelsang holding ace-six and Adams ace-nine. A ten-high flop changed nothing, nor did the jack on the turn. A nine on the river sent Vogelsang home in second-place, a finish worth $2,400,000 and gifted Adams back-to-back Super High Roller Bowl titles plus $3,600,000.
