$500,000 Super High Roller Bowl
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2015 Super High Roller Series
$500,000 Super High Roller Bowl
Day: 3
Event Info
2015 Super High Roller Series
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
$500,000
Entries
43
Level
23
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
Players Left 1 / 43
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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
| Seat | Player | Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brian Rast | 7,980,000 | 133 |
| 2 | Scott Seiver | 3,950,000 | 66 |
| 3 | Erik Seidel | 1,930,000 | 32 |
| 4 | Connor Drinan | 1,295,000 | 22 |
| 5 | Timofey Kuznetsov | 1,725,000 | 29 |
| 6 | David Peters | 3,015,000 | 50 |
| 7 | Tom Marchese | 1,705,000 | 28 |
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.
The start of play has been pushed back an undisclosed amount of time.
Level: 17
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 5,000
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 
. Both players checked, the 
appeared on the turn, and action repeated itseld. The 
river saw both players check for a third time, and Kuznetsov tabled the 
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.
Level 17
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
8,080,000
100,000
|
100,000 |
|
||
|
4,145,000
195,000
|
195,000 |
|
||
|
2,900,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
||
|
1,815,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
||
|
1,765,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
1,745,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
1,150,000
145,000
|
145,000 |
|
|
||
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 
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 
and Seiver check-called 125,000 from Marchese to see the 
turn, which both players checked. The 
river completed the board and both checked again.
"Straight," announced Seiver.
Marchese, though, tabled 
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.
Level 17
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
8,015,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
3,830,000
315,000
|
315,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
3,170,000
270,000
|
270,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
2,045,000
300,000
|
300,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,805,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
1,700,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,035,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
|
||
Level 17
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
Hand #11: Timofey Kuznetsov limped the small blind, David Peters checked his option from the big, and the flop fell 
. Kuznetsov led out for 90,000, Peters called, and the dealer burned and turned the . Kuznetsov bet again, this time 200,000, but he couldn't shake Peters, who called to see the 
turn.
Kuznetsov slowed down with a check, and Peters followed suit. Kuznetsov tabled the 
for a pair of jacks, and Peters rolled over the same hand with the 
. Chop it up.
Hand #12: Tom Marchese received a walk in the big blind.
Hand #13: Scott Seiver raised to 150,000 under the gun and won the pot.
Hand #14: Erik Seidel raised to 135,000 under the gun, Seiver defended his big blind, and the flop came down 
. Seiver checked and then folded when Seidel bet 150,000.
Hand #15: Brian Rast raised to 135,000 from the button, Seiver called from the small blind, and it was heads-up action to the 
flop. Seiver checked, Rast bet 190,000, and Seiver snap-folded.
Level 17
: 30,000/60,000, 5,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
8,130,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
3,660,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
3,130,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
2,055,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,815,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
1,800,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
|
1,010,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
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