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.
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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.
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Marcus Farthing: ![]()
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |