Stevens Wins Battle of Malta High Roller; Other HUGE Sunday Scores

November 09, 2020

Bert Stevens won a massive $393,362 a couple of months ago when he finished on top of a pile of incredibly talented players in the GGPoker Super MILLION$. On November 8, Stevens beat this huge score by triumphing in the Battle of Malta High Roller Championship. His reward weighed in at a gargantuan $437,548!

Battle of Malta High Roller Championship Final Table Results

The $5,250 buy-in Battle of Malta High Roller Championship saw 495 players take to the GGPoker felt and created a $2,475,000 prize pool, almost half a million dollars more than the advertised $2 million guarantee.

Former WSOP Main Event champion Ryan Riess was the unfortunate soul who burst the money bubble, paving the way for a cash of at least $11,454 for the remaining 71 players.

The likes of Chris Moorman, Samuel Vousden, Stephen Chidwick, Mikita Badziakouski, Fedor Holz, Rainer Kempe, Adrian Mateos, Dzmitry Urbanovich, and Kristen Bicknell were among the in-the-money finishers.

Damian Salas busted in 10th place to set the official final table where everyone would take home at least $36,462.

That sum went to the first of two Israelis who reached the final table, namely “natykkk”. Norway’s “CharlieD23” finished in eighth for $49,744 before Israel’s “kukuriko” fell in seventh for $67,864.

Dario Sammartino collected $92,584 when his tournament ended abruptly in sixth-place. This was the last prize not to weigh in at six-figures.

Triple Crown winner Davidi Kitai banked $126,309 for a fifth-place finish with Rissian star “JokerFace” scooping $172,318 when they became the next player to fall by the wayside.

Canada’s Kyle Menard’s exit in third place earned him $235,088 and sent the tournament into the heads-up stage. This pitted Darren Elias and Bert Stevens against each other in a one-on-one battle where the difference in prize money was $117,000!

Elias may have a record four WPT titles, but he couldn’t win this event. That honor went to Stevens who got his hands on $320,721 after firing three bullets. Stevens, on his initial buy-in, reeled in the $437,548 top prize and the title of champion.

Aku Joentausta Takes Home $271,790 and PLO High Roller Title

Finland’s Aku Joentausta is regarded as one of the best Pot-Limit Omaha players on the plane and those accolades gain more credit after he won the High Roller Week PLO event at GGPoker.

Joentausta came out on top of a 124-strong field to secure a cool $271,790. Three of Joentausta’s opponents won six-figure prizes in this $10,300 buy-in affair.

Turkey’s “somebodyelse” won $119,633 for their fourth-place exit with Isaac Haxton enjoying a $157,269 haul for his third-place finish. “smbcall911” of Ukraine wad the tournament’s runner-up; they banked $206,747.

Just look at the size of some of these huge sums won in GGPoker events on November 8.

• Cantaloupe7 – first-place in the HRW 01: GGMasters High Rollers for $233,813
• Daniel Hindin – first-place in the HRW 04: NLHE High Roller for $132,239
• Dan Smiljkovic – first-place in the GGMasters $150 for $82,223
• Gero Nagy – first-place in the High Rollers Blade PLO for $60,087
• DJdave_en – first-place in the Sunday High Rollers $1,500 for $57,446
• David Yan – first-place in the Bounty Grand Master HR $3,150 for $55,927*
• indiligs – first-place in the PLO Crusaders HR for $50,134
• Georgios Manousos – first-place in the High Rollers Marathon $840 for $49,784
• Andreas Torbergsen – first-place in the High Rollers PLO Bounty for $48,155*
• MagicKing – first-place in the Bounty Grand Master for $47,568*
• 107dalmatass – first-place in the Bounty Hunters Malta HR for $38,513*
• Andreas Christoforou – first-place in the High Rollers Main Event $1,050 for $36,725
• Ghazbaran – first-place in the Sunday Main Event for $35,470
• Scopesman – first-place in the Bounty Hunters Main Event $210 for $34,197*
• Adam Hendrix – first-place in the Sunday Forty Stack for $33,603
• VSMPZD – first-place in the Let the Battle begin $100 for $32,802
• CheckEtoFold – first-place in the Sunday High Roller Six Shooter for $32,319*

*includes bounties

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Jonathan Proudfoot Wins High Roller Big Game For Almost $90,000

Jonathan Proudfoot was partypoker’s biggest winner this weekend after he overcame plenty of talented grinders in the $2,600 High Roller Big Game.

A field of 157 players competed for a share of the $398,750 and it was Proudfoot who secured the largest slice of the pie, one worth $89,997. Proudfoot secured this sum after defeating Abdelhakim Zoufri heads-up, the Dutch runner-up locking in a $64,788 consolation prize.

Others who reached the final table included Pascal Hartmann, Mark Radoja, Elio Fox, and Team partypoker’s Mikita Badziakouski and Kristen Bicknell.

These are some of the other highlights from partypoker’s biggest tournaments on November 8:

• FLYZIONFLY – first-place in the $1,111 High Roller One Shot for $44,281
• Sander Totuli – first-place in the $530 Big Game for $42,477
• SentaPua – first-place in the $320 300 for $23,998*
• LickMyCev – first-place in the $109 Weekender for $21,088*
• PilnToTheWin – first-place in the $111 One Shot for $17,217
• POCTOK – first-place in the $55 Gladiator for $14,744*
• Tomasz Kwiecinski – first-place in the $55 Mini Big Game for $14,731
• rafiaobs – first-place in the $215 Warrior for $13,715*
• PougDolk – first-place in the $215 Deepstack for $10,032

*includes bounty payments

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efkinis24 Locks up $52,154 at PokerStars

Lithuania’s “efkins24” won one of the largest prizes at PokerStars this weekend after coming out on top of the $1,050 Sunday High Roller. This impressive finish saw a $52,124 prize head to the Lithuanian’s account. It would have been chunkier but they struck a deal with Francisco “Tomatee” Benitez heads-up; Benitez collected $49,862.

The rest of the final table read like a who’s who of online poker, with such luminaries as Thomas “MarToMchat” Boivin, Fabian “!$eveeeeeeeen!” Gumz, Dominik “Bounatirou” Nitsche, Ole “wizowizo” Schemion, and Viktor “papan9_ps$” Ustimov all present and correct.

Other PokerStars resulted included:

• CPUrul0r – first-place in the $215 Bounty builder for $36,122*
• VICTOR TXR1 – first-place in the $109 Bounty Builder for $28,876*
• RayRuduks – first-place in the $215 Bounty Builder for $25,646*
• czechpepe – first-place in the $109 Sunday Cooldown for $25,575*
• serrazina11 – first-place in the $215 Sunday Warm-Up for $24,013
• Andras “probirs” Nemeth – first-place in the $1,050 Sunday Supersonic for $19,741
• Andras “probirs” Nemeth – first-place in the $1,050 Sunday Cooldown for $19,577*
• Berinde “bogdanel27” Bogdan – first-place in the $109 Sunday Kickoff for $14,779
• Artem “veeea” Vezhenkov – first-place in the $215 Fat Sunday for $11,739

*includes bounty payments

What went down on Day 1 of the EPT Online festival?

Finally, the key results from 888poker. Here, “Billy_Slater” took down the $100,000 Mega Deep which once again, you guessed it, missed its guarantee, doing do by 73-entrants. This resulted in an $18,750 top prize. “moderator88” and “nolimitbud” won the tournament’s other five-figure prizes, namely $13,500 and $10,000 respectively.

Shout out too to “AlwaysTimed” whose second $109 bullet resulted in victory in the $25,000 Sunday Challenge PKO. That finish weighed in at a combined $5,827 with bounties included.

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