Adrian Mateos, Christopher Brammer, and Daniel Dvoress Win Big in The Bahamas
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The 2019 partypoker LIVE Caribbean Poker Party crowned another three champions on the fourth day of the festival with Adrian Mateos, Christopher Brammer and Daniel Dvoress walking away with wallet-filling prizes.
Mateos’ victory came in the $25,500 MILLIONS Super High Roller, a tournament that saw 125 entries processed. Only the top 17 finishers received a slice of the $3,125,000 pie and it was Elio Fox who was the first to cash; Fox banked $60,000.
Fox gained some company on the rail when Alex Foxen and Kristen Bicknell busted. Sean Winter,Peter Jetten, Rainer Kempe, and Davidi Kitai then crashed out to leave only 10 players in the hunt for the title.
Ten became nine when Jeremy Ausmus busted and the official eight-handed final table was set when Darren Elias lost his stack.
The prize money had now grown to $115,000 and this sum went to Michael Zhang, who already has a MILLIONS Super High Roller title to his name, fell in ninth. Zhang lost a coinflip wth ace-king against Christopher Fraser’s pair of tens.
Orpen Kisacikoglu also lost a flip when his king-eight failed to connect with the board when he was all-in against Niall Farrell’s pocket fives.
France’s Benjamin Pollak will count himself unlucky with how his tournament ended. Pollak three-bet all-in with ace-ten when Brock Wilson had opened with a raise. Wilson had initially raised with a pair of aces in the hole so had a simple call. Call he did and Wilson’s hand held, leaving five players in contention to become the champion.
Those five became four when Farrell got the last of his chips into the middle with ace-seven and found himself up against the king-queen of Fraser. A king on the flop put Fraser in the lead, but the three community cards were all clubs and Farrell held the seven in that suit. No help arrived on the turn or river and Farrell’s tournament ended abruptly.
David Eldridge jammed with eights into the nines of Fraser before Fraser got his stack in with a draw against the top pair of Wilson to send the tournament into the heads-up stage. This hand gave Wilson a massive chip advantage with his 105,000,000 chips playing Mateos’ 18,500,000.
Mateos’ class shone through and he managed to pull almost level, prompting Wilson to agree to a deal that saw him walk away with $619,536 and Mateos scoop $520,464. The pair decided to flip for the tournament and the flip went Mateos’ way. Comeback completed!
$25,500 MILLIONS Super High Roller Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $520,464* |
| 2 | Brock Wilson | United States | $619,536* |
| 3 | Christopher Fraser | United Kingdom | $326,250 |
| 4 | David Eldridge | United States | $255,000 |
| 5 | Niall Farrell | United Kingdom | $200,000 |
| 6 | Benjamin Pollak | France | $160,000 |
| 7 | Orpen Kisacikoglu | Turkey | $135,000 |
| 8 | Michael Zhang | United Kingdom | $115,000 |
*reflects a heads-up deal
Brammer Takes Down Mini Main Event
Christopher Brammer padded his bankroll with $165,000, the fourth-largest live score of his career, by taking down the $1,100 MILLIONS Mini Main Event. Brammer overcame a tough final day that saw the likes of Ryan Riess and Jeff Gross bust before the final table.
That final table was the home to a talented bunch of players, including Joe Cada who ran out of luck in fifth-place for a $40,000 score.
Brammer eventually found himself heads-up with Joseph Cheong. Cheong and Brammer have clashed dozens of time at the virtual felt but were no face-to-face for the title and the not-so-small matter of $165,000. It was Brammer who emerged victorious, resigning Cheong to the $110,000 consolation prize which takes his lifetime live winnings past $14.5 million.
$1,100 MILLIONS Mini Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Brammer | United Kingdom | $165,000 |
| 2 | Joseph Cheong | United States | $110,000 |
| 3 | Andreas Putz | Germany | $75,000 |
| 4 | Sasa Lalos | Austria | $54,250 |
| 5 | Joe Cada | United States | $40,000 |
| 6 | Christopher Taylor | Canada | $29,000 |
| 7 | Paul Michaelis | Germany | $21,000 |
| 8 | Karim Kamal | Canada | $15,000 |
Dvoress Wins Again!
Daniel Dvoress may have won $4,080,000 in the Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas event but his hunger for success is as large as ever. Dvoress was one of 45 entries in the $25,000 Short Deck event and he took down the whole shebang for another $375,000.
Dvoress defeated Danny Tang heads-up for the title with the recent WSOP bracelet winner having to make do with a $250,00 runner-up prize.
Earlier at the final table, former WSOP Main Event champion John Cynn busted in sixth-place for $70,000 before Isaac Haxton collected $95,000 for his fifth-place finish. The legendary Phil Ivey busted in fourth for $126,250 before Chin Wei Lim became the penultimate bust-out, his third-place exit being worth $175,000.
$25,000 Short Deck Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Dvoress | Canada | $375,000 |
| 2 | Danny Tang | Hong Kong | $250,000 |
| 3 | Chin Wei Lim | Malaysia | $175,000 |
| 4 | Phil Ivey | United States | $126,250 |
| 5 | Isaac Haxton | United States | $95,000 |
| 6 | John Cynn | United States | $70,000 |
