Daniel Dvoress Wins $250,000 Buy-In Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas

Daniel Dvoress has won the first-ever running of the Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas. The Canadian poker pro outlasted a field of 51 entries in the $250,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament to earn the largest payday of his career: $4,080,000. The score brought the Mississauga, ON native’s lifetime earnings total to $15,230,748. As a result, Dvoress climbed into fifth place on the Canadian all-time money list, behind only Daniel Negreanu ($40,877,235), Sam Greenwood ($20,530,269), Tim Adams ($18,258,108) and Jonathan Duhamel ($17,981,623).

In addition to the title and the money, Dvoress was also awarded 600 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion of this event. This was his first title and tenth final-table finish of the year. With $8,132,452 in year-to-date earnings and 3,393 points accrued, Dvoress has climbed into 32nd place in the 2019 POY race standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker.

“This is the most prepared I’ve felt for a tournament relative to the rest of the field. I felt really comfortable all day and coasted through it without emotional swings,” Dvoress said after securing the biggest win of his career. “It all kind of came together in this event.”

Dvoress entered the final table of this event in the middle of the pack. Dvoress won a few pots and then picked off a bluff from Jason Koon early on to surge up the leaderboard in the early going. Justin Bonomo was the first player to be eliminated. He was left with a single chip after he bet 545,000 of his 550,000 stack on the river, only to fold to a shove from Erik Seidel. He was eliminated shortly afterwards by Wai Leong Chan, who flopped trips with A4 against Bonomo’s 76 out of the big blind. The former champion of both the Super High Roller Bowl and the Super High Roller Bowl China was unable to come from behind and was knocked out in eighth place ($510,000).

Jason Koon was the next to go. He had lost a preflop coinflip earlier in the day with AK against the pocket jacks of Wai Leong Chan. This time around it was Koon who had the pocket pair. His 33 failed to outrun the AK of Kathy Lehne and Koon was sent to the rail in seventh place ($637,500).

Steve O’Dwyer’s run came to an end when he moved all-in from the cutoff with A9 and recieved a call from Erik Seidel, who had been dealt the A10 in the small blind. Neither player improved and O’Dwyer was knocked out in sixth place. He took home $765,000 for his strong showing in this event.

The remaining five players were now all guaranteed a seven-figure payday in this event. Seth Davies was the next to be eliminated. In a blind-on-blind battle he called off the last of his short stack with K7 on a Q9982 board after Daniel Dvoress had checked the flop, bet the turn and shoved the river. Dvoress had the best hand with Q3 for queens up. Davies earned $1,020,000 as the fifth-place finisher.

Eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel lost a huge chunk of his stack to Dvoress when his flush draw and top pair ran into the Canadian’s flopped set of threes. Seidel got all-in not long after that with 76. Dvoress called with KJ. Dvoress paired his king on the river to secure the pot, knocking Seidel out in fourth place ($1,275,000).

Three-handed play continued for quite some time. In the final hand before heads-up play, Dvoress raised to 200,000 from the button and Kathy Lehne called from the small blind. Wai Leong Chan moved all-in from the big blind for around 2,800,000 with 66. Dvoress folded and Lehne called for her last 2,400,000 with AA. Lehne was in fantastic shape to earn the key double up, but the KKQ76 runout saw Chan spike a full house on the river. Lehne was eliminated in third place, earning $1,785,000 for her impressive run in this event.

Heads-up play began with Dvoress holding just less than a 2:1 advantage over Wai Leong Chan. He was able to expand that lead to more than an 8.5:1 advantage by the time the final hand arose. Chan moved all-in for his last 1.5 million with J7 from the button. Dvoress called from the big blind with A9. The board came down 873106, giving Dvoress a straight on the river to lock up the pot and the title. Chan earned $2,677,500 as the runner-up finisher.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded in this event:

Winner photo provided by Poker Central.

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