Marcus Farthing Wins This Week's The High Roller Big Game
Marcus Farthing raised to 4,000,000 from the button for Jens Lakemeier to make the call.
The flop came for Lakemeier to check. Farthing took some time and continued with a bet of 6,187,500. Lakemeier tanked for a bit and then shoved for 30,486,208 for Farthing to call with the bigger stack after he had taken the chip lead back in the previous hand.
Jens Lakemeier:
Marcus Farthing:
Lakemeier had flopped the open-ended straight draw while Farthing had picked up the gutshot to a straight.
The turn was the for Farthing to improve to an open-ended straight draw too and got there when the came on the river to win the tournament outright without a deal for $65,609.
The High Roller Big Game Final Table Results May 2
Place | Player | Country | Prize |
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1 | Marcus Farthing | United Kingdom | $65,609 |
2 | Jens Lakemeier | Austria | $42,307 |
3 | David Peters | United States | $29,106 |
4 | Wiktor Malinowski | Poland | $20,654 |
5 | Joakim Andersson | Sweden | $15,391 |
6 | Andras Nemeth | Hungary | $12,366 |
7 | Pier-Luc Martin | Canada | $10,492 |
8 | Peter Tschernigg | Austria | $8,993 |
9 | Laszlo Bujtas | Hungary | $7,694 |