Online Poker Ace Wins Super High Roller For $1.12 Million

By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Sep 16, 2016

Even the runner up gets over a million dollars

The $102,000 buy-in online Super High Roller competition that has had everyone agog over the past few days has been decided in dramatic fashion, with player "bencb789" emerging victorious and taking home $1, 1772, 461 after a two-way chop with German poker prodigy Fedor Holz, who delivered yet another impressive performance at the table.
Holz's runner up prize added another $1, 067, 639 to his already bulging bank account after a series of big wins in recent months.
The inaugural Super High Roller was a component in this year's Pokerstars World Championship of Online Poker and awarded prizes only to the top three finishers, with Salman "salfshb" Behbehani from the United States claiming the third prize of $560,000 after starting the final table as chip leader.
Mikita "fish2013" Badziakouski, Igor "lechuckpoker" Kurganov and Isaac "philivey2694" Haxton were the others members of the final table but left with nothing to show for their big investment and two days of tough online poker.
Holz eliminated Haxton at fourth to decide the final three who would cash, and that was followed by Behbehani's elimination at third by "bencb789".
The two finalists then went into a huddle and agreed a chop that would give Holz $1,067,639.40 and "bencb789" $1,116,360.60, with $56,000 and the trophy left to play for.
Soon after bencb789 won a huge pot on an audacious bluff and was able to leverage that equity into a victory in the fourth hand of the heads up.

Online Casino News Courtesy of Infopowa

Brian Cullingworth

Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.

We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.

His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.


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