Masashi Oya emerged victorious from a area of 30 entries within the $51,500 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion on the 2024 Super High Roller Bowl Series at Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus. The Japanese poker professional earned $535,000 because the champion, rising his profession event haul to $8.5 million.
In addition to the trophy and the cash, Oya additionally secured loads of rankings factors for the win. The 408 Card Player Player of the Year factors he was awarded grew his complete to three,234. With two titles and eight final-table finishes, he’s now the Thirty fourth-ranked participant within the 2024 POY standings offered by Global Poker. Oya additionally received 321 PokerGO Tour factors. With 518 complete, he’s no sitting in 79th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard.
The high 5 finishers made the cash on this occasion, with $1,470,000 cut up up between them. Danilo Velasevic was knocked out on the bubble, which meant at the very least $120,000 paydays for the remaining contenders. That sum in the end went to Sorel Mizzi when his Q-10 bumped into the dominating Q-J of Oya.
An identical state of affairs performed out within the subsequent massive conflict, with Matthias Eibinger’s Q-J pipped by the Okay-Q of who else however Oya. Eibinger earned $180,000 because the fourth-place finisher. The Austrian now has greater than $22.1 million in profession cashes.
That left Oya thre-handed with four-time bracelet winner Adrian Mateos and six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus.
Mateos was the subsequent to bow out. The Spanish event tremendous star had been whittled down just some massive blinds and ended up getting in with 9-3 dominated by 10-3 for Oya. Mateos was unable to come back from behind and was eradicated in third place ($262,000). This was his second final-table end of the collection, having additionally positioned second in occasion no. 3 for $231,000.
Mateos now has 15 final-table finishes in 2024, with greater than $9.1 million accrued throughout these deep runs. With two titles received and eight,124 factors, he stays the participant to beat on this 12 months’s POY race. This newest rating introduced his profession earnings to greater than $50 million. He is simply the tenth participant in poker historical past to surpass that milestone.
Oya held a 5:1 chip lead over Ausmus when heads-up play started. The American battled all the way in which again into the lead, however was quickly overtaken once more. In the ultimate hand of the event, Ausmus acquired all-in with Okay
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trailing the A6 of Oya on a A
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5 board. The river was the Q and Ausmus was eradicated because the runner-up ($373,000).
Ausmus now has greater than $21.8 million in profession cashes. He is ranked second within the PGT season-long standings and fifth within the POY race after this newest deep run.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the ultimate desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Masashi Oya | $535,000 | 408 | 321 |
| 2 | Jeremy Ausmus | $373,000 | 340 | 224 |
| 3 | Adrian Mateos | $262,000 | 272 | 157 |
| 4 | Matthias Eibinger | $180,000 | 204 | 108 |
| 5 | Sorel Mizzi | $120,000 | 170 | 72 |
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