2015 Super High Roller Series

$500,000 Super High Roller Bowl
Day: 3
Event Info

2015 Super High Roller Series

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
a9
Prize
$7,525,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$500,000
Entries
43
Level Info
Level
23
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000

Marchese Chipping Up

Level 17 : 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante

Hand #6: David Peters raised to 135,000 from the button and Brian Rast called from the big blind.

The flop came down {3-Spades}{A-Spades}{7-Hearts} and Rast checked to Peters who bet 140,000. Rast folded, giving Peters the pot.

Hand #7: Tom Marchese raised to 135,000 from the button and Scott Seiver called from the big blind.

The flop fell {J-Hearts}{J-Diamonds}{Q-Hearts} and Seiver check-called 125,000 from Marchese to see the {9-Hearts} turn, which both players checked. The {J-Spades} river completed the board and both checked again.

"Straight," announced Seiver.

Marchese, though, tabled {10-Clubs}{9-Diamonds} for jacks full of nines to win the pot.

Hand #8: Peters raised to 135,000 from the hijack and took down the blinds and antes.

Hand #9: Rast opened to 135,000 from the cutoff and took down the pot.

Hand #10: Timofey Kuznetsov received a walk in the big blind and showed ace-king.

Tags: Brian RastDavid PetersScott SeiverTimofey KuznetsovTobias PetersTom Marchese

Slow Action in First Five Hands

Level 17 : 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante

Hand #1: Chip leader Brian Rast started with the button. Tom Marchese opened the action with a raise to 135,000 from the cutoff and took down the blinds and antes.

Hand #2: Scott Seiver raised to 130,000 on the button and took down the blinds and antes.

Hand #3: Connor Drinan limped the small blind and Timofey Kuznetsov checked his option in the big to see a flop of {7-Clubs}{a-Hearts}{3-Hearts}. Both players checked, the {10-Spades} appeared on the turn, and action repeated itseld. The {4-Hearts} river saw both players check for a third time, and Kuznetsov tabled the {k-Diamonds}{8-Diamonds} to win the pot.

Hand #4: Rast opened for 135,000 from middle position and swiped the blinds and antes.

Hand #5: Seiver raised to 135,000 from middle position and took down the pot.

Tags: Brian RastTimofey KuznetsovScott Seiver

Level: 17

Blinds: 30,000/60,000

Ante: 5,000

Let the Fireworks Fly on Day 3 of the $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl

Brian Rast
Brian Rast

Welcome back to the third and final day of the inaugural $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl. This tournament started with 43 entrants, who created a prize pool of $21.5 million, but now just seven players remain. Each of them is guaranteed at least $860,000 — their reward for making the money at the top seven — but each of them have their eyes firmly fixed on the $7.525 million first-place prize.

The man best positioned to make a run at the top prize is Brian Rast, who leads the final table with 7.98 million.

"I have a lot of chips, and I'm in a really good situation right now," Rast said at the end of the night. "My seat's not too bad, but there are a lot of good players. There are no amateurs. Hopefully I'll have some good luck and things will go well. Maybe I can take this big stack and win the tournament."

Rast is looking for the fourth seven-figure score of his career. His first came in 2011 when he won the World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players' Championship for $1,720,328, and then a year later he took sixth in the inaugural Big One for ONE DROP for $1,621,333. More recently, he took home $1,083,500 for winning the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic High Roller in December 2013.

However, in order for Rast to claim victory, he'll have to navigate a tough final table that includes Scott Seiver, who recently took to social media to explain he's playing some of the best poker of his life; Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel; online poker superstars Timofey "Trueteller" Kuznetsov; Day 1 chip leader David Peters; Vegas high roller veteran Tom Marchese; and the short stack coming into the day, Connor Drinan.

The $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl Final Table

SeatPlayerCountBig Blinds
1Brian Rast7,980,000133
2Scott Seiver3,950,00066
3Erik Seidel1,930,00032
4Connor Drinan1,295,00022
5Timofey Kuznetsov1,725,00029
6David Peters3,015,00050
7Tom Marchese1,705,00028

Action will kick off at 2:00 p.m. local time, which is less than an hour from now. Stay tuned as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team brings you all the action on the way to crowning a winner.

Tags: Brian Rast

$500,000 Super High Roller Bowl

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