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The third and closing $25,750 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion of the 2024 Super High Roller Bowl Series at Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus ended up with 41 whole entries, leading to a prize pool of $1,004,500.
After two days of high-stakes six-handed event motion, Maher Nouira emerged victorious with the title and the highest prize of $333,000.
This was the third-largest reside payday but for Nouira, who has recorded 4 of his top-five paydays this 12 months. His largest rating got here with a fourth-place exhibiting within the $100,000 buy-in occasion at Triton Montenegro, which earned him $933,000. He now has almost $3.5 million in profession cashes.
Nouira earned 420 Card Player Player of the Year factors for this, his second title of the 12 months. With 2,241 whole factors earned throughout six POY-qualified closing tables, he’s now tied with Raminder Singh for 104th place within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker.
Nouira earned his first 200 PokerGO Tour factors of the 12 months with this triumph, which had been ample to maneuver him into 219th place within the season-long PGT points race.
Nouira had loads of stiff competitors to deal with down the stretch, together with Samuel Ju (sixth – $65,000), two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress (fifth – $87,500), Yulian Bogdanov (4th – $122,000), and Jamil Wakil (third – $166,000).
It got here right down to a heads-up conflict between Nouira and present POY race chief Adrian Mateos for the title. The Spanish famous person entered the ultimate showdown with 1,135,000 to Nouira’s 7,070,000. He managed to battle his approach again to just about even, solely to run a failed bluff try towards a straight to complete because the runner-up.
Mateos earned $231,000 and 350 POY factors for his 14th final-table end of 2024. With two titles and greater than $8.8 million in to-date POY earnings, he stays the participant to beat within the POY race. His 7,825 factors give him a 605 level lead over second-ranked David Coleman within the standings.
Mateos additionally secured 139 PGT factors, sufficient to climb into twenty fourth place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard. He now has almost $49.8 million in profession cashes to his title.
Here is a take a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Maher Nouira | $333,000 | 420 | 200 |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | $231,000 | 350 | 139 |
| 3 | Jamil Wakil | $166,000 | 280 | 100 |
| 4 | Yulian Bogdanov | $122,000 | 210 | 73 |
| 5 | Daniel Dvoress | $87,500 | 175 | 53 |
| 6 | Samuel Ju | $65,000 | 140 | 39 |
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