2023 GOLIATH Champ Todd Makes High Roller Final Table
After two full days of action, the £1,500 High Roller is down to its final table. From a field of 264 entries, just nine players remain in the hunt for the £75,170 top prize, with each already guaranteed £8,130 for making it this far.
The final table kicks off at 12 p.m., with the live stream getting underway shortly after at 12:20 p.m. over on Grosvenor Poker’s YouTube channel.
Tianyi Jiang leads the way with 4.9 million chips (49 BBs), followed by Ciaran Mccullagh and Ahmed Abdin, who sit neck and neck with just under 4 million apiece. There’s still plenty of play in the stacks, with a wide open race to the trophy.
One of the most notable names at the table is Alex Todd, who famously won the 2023 GOLIATH Main Event, topping a then-record 11,493 entries.
Todd turned a £150 buy-in into a life-changing £178,860, winning the trophy after a six-way deal. The Englishman has since been playing tournaments full time across the world, and regularly posts poker content on his socials which is always makes for good viewing. Now, he finds himself with another shot at GOLIATH glory, this time in the High Roller spotlight.
High Roller Final Table Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Stack | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tianyi Jiang | 4,900,000 | 49 |
| 2 | Ciaran Mccullagh | 3,985,000 | 40 |
| 3 | Ahmed Abdin | 3,925,000 | 39 |
| 4 | S S | 3,710,000 | 37 |
| 5 | Richard Owen | 3,000,000 | 30 |
| 6 | Les Packer | 2,945,000 | 29 |
| 7 | Alex Todd | 1,800,000 | 18 |
| 8 | Yuzhou Yin | 1,675,000 | 17 |
| 9 | Yonghao Zhou | 975,000 | 10 |
Remaining Payouts – £1,500 High Roller
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | £75,170 |
| 2 | £56,200 |
| 3 | £38,940 |
| 4 | £26,070 |
| 5 | £18,280 |
| 6 | £13,550 |
| 7 | £10,830 |
| 8 | £9,210 |
| 9 | £8,130 |
The top 29 players made the money, with the min-cash being set at £3,350.
Unfortunately for Alex Montgomery, he was the last player to leave empty-handed after he was eliminated on the stone bubble.
His ace-jack was out-turned by another player's king-queen. Here are the players who made the money yesterday:
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | Michael Casson | £7,040 |
| 11 | Alexander Goulder | £6,190 |
| 12 | Brandon Harris | £5,360 |
| 13 | Raymond Power | £4,500 |
| 14 | Stephen Watson | £4,500 |
| 15 | Yiannis Liperis | £4,160 |
| 16 | Conor Berry-Grimsley | £4,160 |
| 17 | Adam Bonham | £3,930 |
| 18 | Armaan Kochhar | £3,930 |
| 19 | Mason Rees Kanabar | £3,720 |
| 20 | Kenechukwu Otti | £3,720 |
| 21 | Xiaoyun Li | £3,560 |
| 22 | Andrew Toole | £3,560 |
| 23 | Zhicheng Miao | £3,560 |
| 24 | John Kelly | £3,420 |
| 25 | Joshua James Boulton | £3,420 |
| 26 | Neil Woolfrey | £3,420 |
| 27 | Lewis Wood | £3,350 |
| 28 | Mitchell Johnson | £3,350 |
| 29 | Jiaze Li | £3,350 |