Greenwood Does it Again; From One Big Blind to €1,000,000 Victory!
The 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Grand Final at the Casino Barcelona has crowned another champion and the first player scooped a seven-figure payday in the record-setting festival. Only seven players returned to their seats on the feature table out of 57 entries, and a lengthy bubble in the previous night resulted in four very short stacks for the final day of the €51,000 Super High Roller.
Among those was also Sam Greenwood, who led the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Season 1 leaderboard in terms of cashes prior to Barcelona. After an amazing trip to Punta Cana, he had more than $1.3 million racked up on the newly established tour, and he almost doubled that after staging an impressive comeback. In the Caribbean, the Canadian high stakes regular had been down to a few big blinds. In the second most-expensive event of the Barcelona festival, it was even more incredible after Greenwood came back from 600,000 chips at blinds of 250,000/500,000.
Several double ups later, he was suddenly in heads-up against Sergio Aido and that's when the action slowed down a lot. No big pots were played, but Greenwood eventually pulled away to establish a decent lead. In the final hand, he barreled three streets with ace-nine for flopped top pair, and Aido called him down with jack-ten for a double gutshot on the turn and third pair on the river.
“He is a tough player, we didn't have much to play with on 30 big blinds at heads up. I just had the best hand most of the time on the river, so that was easy.” Aido had to settle for second place and a payday of €600,000, he is the second Spaniard to finish runner-up in a Super High Roller during this festival. It is the third-biggest cash for Aido, who will boost his earnings on the live circuit to more than $7 million.
While Greenwood has been a regular in the High Roller tournaments and ran extremely hot at the 2017 partypoker LIVE Caribbean Poker Party on Punta Cana with a victory in the Main Event, the triumph here in similar comeback fashion feels special to the Canadian.
“I got a second in a couple 50k before, I actually got second to Fedor (Holz) in a 50k here before, so it feels really nice to win one.”
The next high stakes event is just around the corner with the ongoing €100,000 Super High Roller, and Greenwood confirmed that he will be in the hunt for another trophy after taking a short break.
“I didn't get too much sleep, because the bubble went so long last night. I will probably get something to eat and caffeine, then jump into the 100k.”
Final Result €51,000 Super High Roller
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in EUR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sam Greenwood | Canada | €1,000,000 |
| 2 | Sergio Aido | Spain | €600,000 |
| 3 | Patrik Antonius | Finland | €400,000 |
| 4 | Keith Tilston | United States | €284,500 |
| 5 | Jean-Noel Thorel | France | €210,000 |
| 6 | Joao Simao | Brazil | €160,000 |
| 7 | Matthias Eibinger | Austria | €110,000 |
The event attracted a field of 57 entries in total for a prize pool of €2,764,500. Seth Davies ended up as the bubble boy in the previous night, while partypoker ambassador Joao Simao continued his hot run in 2018 by adding another €160,000 score after finishing 6th. Start-of-the-day chip leader Patrik Antonius fell in 3rd place for €400,000.
The Super High Roller action continues right away as the €101,000 Super High Roller is currently in level five with up to 35 entries. Late registration remains open for eight levels and that may very well see the guarantee of €2,000,000 to be doubled.