Sam Soverel Wins 2016 Aria Super High Roller For $1 MillionPoker Pro Tops Field of 34 Entries, Captures Title After Three-Handed Deal With Brian Rast and Jake Schindler |
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A total of 34 entries were made in the 2016 Aria Super High Roller 12 $100,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event, building a prize pool of $3,332,000.
In the end Sam Soverel emerged victorious, capturing his third title of 2016 and the first-place prize of $1,024,364. The high-stakes cash game player has now made a total of 10 final tables this year, cashing for $2,468,886 in live poker tournaments along the way.
Soverel earned 600 Card Player Player of the Year points for this latest huge score. With 4,765 points to his name he has climbed into fourth place in the POY standings.
Current POY race leader Fedor Holz finished fourth in this event for $299,880 and 300 points. He now has 7,058 POY points, the most any player has accumulated in the past decade. With 15 final table finishes and six titles in 2016 Holz has cashed for $16,288,714 so far this year, with just over two months left to play.
With Holz’s elimination in fourth place the remaining three players decided to make a deal based on the current chip counts, with Jake Schindler being awarded $835,956 as the third-place finisher and Brian Rast getting $971,880 as the runner up.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded in this event:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Sam Soverel | $1,024,364 | 600 |
| 2 | Brian Rast | $971,880 | 500 |
| 3 | Jake Schindler | $835,956 | 400 |
| 4 | Fedor Holz | $299,880 | 300 |
| 5 | Tom Marchese | $199,920 | 250 |
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