Quan Zhou has gained occasion no. 2 of the 2024 Super High Roller Bowl Series on the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus. The Chinese participant bested a 39-entry subject within the $25,750 buy-in no-limit maintain’em event to earn $316,000 and his third title of 2024.
This victory got here simply over two weeks after Zhou took down a Red Dragon Poker Tour occasion in Jeju, South Korea for $110,889. Back within the spring, Zhou additionally gained a $25,000 excessive curler on the Triton Poker cease in Jeju for $530,000. Zhou now has 3,059 Card Player Player of the Year factors due to his three titles and ten closing tables, good for fortieth place within the 2024 POY standings introduced by Global Poker.
Zhou was additionally awarded 190 PokerGO Tour factors because the champion of this occasion, sufficient to hitch the highest 200 within the (*2*)
This occasion featured seven-handed tables, however solely the highest six finishers earned a share of the $955,500 prize pool. Aram Zobian was knocked out on the bubble, making certain that the remaining half dozen gamers had all locked up at the very least $62,000 for his or her efforts.
That sum finally went to six-time bracelet winner Jeremy Ausmus after he misplaced a preflop race with A-Q in opposition to the pocket tens of Ren Lin. This was the fifteenth final-table exhibiting of 2024 for Ausmus, who now sits in seventh place within the POY rankings and fifth on the PGT leaderboard after this sixth-place end.
Felipe Ketzer of Brazil was the following to fall, incomes $83,000 because the fifth-place finisher. Bracelet winner Ben Heath’s run concluded when his Q-J was unable to finest the A-3 of Zhou in a preflop all-in confrontation. Heath earned $116,500 for his fourth-place exhibiting, rising his profession earnings to greater than $23 million within the course of.
Three-handed play featured loads of swings. Eventually it was Ren Lin who ran out of chips subsequent after his Ok-J working into the A-Ok of Zhou. Lin picked up a straight draw however was unable to enhance any additional and was eradicated in third place ($158,000). This was his ninth closing desk of 2024. He is now ranked twenty first within the POY standings and forty second within the PGT race.
Heads-up play started with Zhou in entrance and the UK’s Spencer Lewis scorching on his heels. The battle was brief lived, as all the chips went in on the second hand. Zhou min-raised to 250,000 from the button with A
2 and Spencer three-bet to 900,000 from the large blinds with 6
6
. Zhou four-bet shoved for simply over 30 large blinds efficient and Spencer referred to as. The board ran out A10
753 to convey the occasion to a detailed.
Spencer earned $220,000 because the runner-up, rising his profession haul to extra then $4.5 million.
Here is a have a look at the payouts and rankings factors awarded on the closing desk:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Quan Zhou | $316,000 | 336 | 190 |
| 2 | Lewis Spencer | $220,000 | 280 | 132 |
| 3 | Ren Lin | $158,000 | 224 | 95 |
| 4 | Ben Heath | $116,500 | 168 | 70 |
| 5 | Felipe Ketzer | $83,000 | 140 | 50 |
| 6 | Jeremy Ausmus | $62,000 | 112 | 37 |
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