John Riordan Halts Sam Soverel in PLO Super High Roller Bowl for $1,250,000
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Sam Soverel dominated the final table of the Super High Roller Bowl: $100k Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table in PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, but it was John Riordan who ended up on top to win the ring and a career-best $1,250,000.
Soverel eliminated four of his Day 3 opponents before fellow Floridian Riordan flipped the script during heads-up play.
The final table also included American pros Jared Bleznick (7th - $150,000) and Bryce Yockey (6th - $225,000), Russia's Artur Martirosian (5th - $300,000), Finland's Joni Jouhkimainen (4th - $400,000) and Brazil's Joao Simao (3rd - $550,000)
2025 Super High Roller Bowl: $100k Pot-Limit Omaha Final Table Results
| Place | Name | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | John Riordan | United States | $1,250,000 |
| 2 | Sam Soverel | United States | $825,000 |
| 3 | Joao Simao | Brazil | $550,000 |
| 4 | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | $400,000 |
| 5 | Artur Martirosian | Russia | $300,000 |
| 6 | Bryce Yockey | United States | $225,000 |
| 7 | Jared Bleznick | United States | $150,000 |
Riordan Closes Out
The third-ever PLO SHRB, advertised as the world's biggest PLO tournament, drew 37 entrants for a prize pool of $3.7 million. Notably absent was Daniel Negreanu, who plays most Super High Roller Bowl events inside the PokerGO Studio and won the 2022 $300,000 buy-in no-limit Hold'em SHRB for $3.3 million.
Bleznick, who won the inaugural event in 2023 and later finished fourth in the 2024 edition, made another deep run in what may soon need to be renamed the Jared Bleznick Invitational.
The sports card enthusiast doubled multiple times on the money bubble on Tuesday's Day 2 with eight players remaining, outlasting PLO wizard and coach Dylan Weisman to secure a seventh-place finish worth $150,000.
After the elimination of Yockey to close out Day 2, five players returned for Day 3 with Soverel leading the PLO pack.
Day 3 was all Soverel as Martirosian soon found himself all in and in bad shape. The Russian endboss jammed into Soverel's flopped trips to be drawing nearly dead. Finland's Jouhkimainen also fell at the hands of Soverel as he had his aces cracked a rivered flush.
After that, Brazilian two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Simao had his kings cracked by the eventual runner-up as Soverel made a runner-runner full house after getting it in behind on the flop with a low pair.
According to PokerGO updates, Riordan won a key pot early during heads-up play to level out the match and soon after took the lead over the sun-running Soverel.
The two then got into a flop raising war as Soverel looked for his two pair to hold up against Riordan's nut flush draw. Sadly for him, the turn gave Riordan his flush and the river failed to give Soverel a full house as his hot streak finally reached an end.
Riordan is a longtime pro from Florida who now has over $6.3 million in Hendon Mob earnings. He has plenty of PLO cashes under his belt and finished runner-up in a PGT PLO Series II $5,000 event earlier this month for $103,700.
The career-high cash brings Riordan more than five times his previous biggest score of $210,180, which he earned from a Circuit ring victory in the 2011 WSOPC West Palm Beach Main Event.
$100k Super High Roller Bowl PLO Winners
| Year | Entrants | Winner | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | John Riordan | United States | $1,250,000 |
| 2024 | 42 | Seth Davies | United States | $1,500,000 |
| 2023 | 38 | Jared Bleznick | United States | $1,292,000 |
*Photos courtesy PokerGO
