2018 Super High Roller Bowl Final Table Set – Negreanu and Bonomo Headline

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The final table for the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl is set. After three days of play, Mikita Badziakouski will take the chip lead into the final table. On his heels is six-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu and Super High Roller Bowl China winner Justin Bonomo.

Last year’s winner Christoph Vogelsang is still in the hunt but will start the final table as the short stack. Jason Koon is continuing his recent remarkable run with another final table and will start fourth.

Steffen Sontheimer Finishes as Bubble Boy

Day 3 of the Super High Roller Bowl started with 15 players looking to make the money and ultimately the final table. Play quickly reached the final ten as Byron Kaverman, Sergio Aido, Sam Soverel, Matt Hyman and Kahle Burns were quickly eliminated.

Play continued ten-handed for quite a while as players didn’t want to bust on the bubble. Ultimately, it was Steffen Sontheimer that found himself at risk. After raising to 38k pre-flop, Nick Petrangelo moved all-in with Ad-Kh. Sontheimer made the call with Kc-10c and found himself dominated.

The tables quickly turned as the flop of Jh-10d-3d gave Sontheimer a pair. The turn 3c missed both players but the river Ac give Petrangelo a pair of aces and made Steffen Sontheimer the bubble boy.

Technically, this event was only supposed to pay eight players. However, the Super High Roller Bowl is set up as rake-free and anyone forfeited deposits are added to the prize pool. Three players backed out of this year’s event at the last moment, leaving $90,000 extra. That $90k was added to the prize pool and awarded to the eighth-place finisher.

Seth Davies Finishes in 8th

Play continued eight-handed for a while after Sontheimer’s elimination and it seemed it would go well into the night. Jason Koon, Seth Davies, and Christoph Vogelsang were all hovering as the short stacks while the rest of the field waited to see who would bust.

Ultimately, it was a battle of two short stacks that broke the big money bubble. Most figured it would take a big hand to bust someone and that finally happened when Seth Davies looked down to pocket tens, shoved, and was called by Jason Koon holding pocket jacks. The board ran out eight-high and Seth Davies finished in 8th.

Davies was one of three players that Poker Central followed in their series Insiders and his story will end with a $210k net loss.

Stephen Chidwick Bubbles Final Table

With Seth Davies’ elimination, the final seven players convened on the last table to play to the final table of six. Stephen Chidwick found himself severely short stacked with only about 12 big blinds left.

In the last hand of the night, Chidwick was in the big blind, which was effectively two big blinds since this event uses the big blind ante format. Action folded to Jason Koon who raised to put Chidwick all-in.

Chidwick called with Ac-2c and was happy to see Koon turn over 9s-8h. He was not so happy to see the flop of Ks-Qh-9c as it left him drawing to two outs. The turn fell the 3h and river the 5c and Stephen Chidwick finished in seventh place. He earned $600,000 for his awesome run in this year’s Super High Roller Bowl.

Negreanu Headlines Super High Roller Bowl Final Table

Daniel Negreanu will headline the final table of the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl, staring second in chips with 4 million. Mikita Badziakouski will start with the chip lead and 4.2 million on Wednesday.

Justin Bonomo will start the final table third with 3.96 million. At one point eight-handed, Bonomo was all-in and behind with Ac-10c against the pocket kings of Christoph Vogelsang. However, Bonomo hit a Barry Greenstein on the river to keep his tournament alive. He spun it up from there and has a chance to become the first person to win both the Vegas Super High Roller Bowl and the Super High Roller Bowl China.

Below is the final table chip counts. Play will resume on Wednesday and continue until a winner is crowned. Action will be live streamed on PokerGo with a running blog of the event kept at PokerNews.com.

Mikita Badziakouski – 4,205,000
Daniel Negreanu – 4,000,000
Justin Bonomo – 3,965,000
Jason Koon – 1,185,000
Nick Petrangelo – 600,000
Christoph Vogelsang – 445,000