Daniel Dvoress and Henrik Hecklen Latest High Roller Winners At European Poker Tour London

The European Poker Tour London festival may be centered around the ongoing £5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, but there were plenty of other big tournaments on the schedule including a number of high roller events. Two of the biggest buy-in tournaments on the schedule wrapped up recently. Below is a look at their results.

£25,000 Single-Day High Roller II

Earlier on in the series, which is being held at Hilton Park Lane, the first £25,000 buy-in single-day high roller saw Byron Kaverman emerge victorious with the title and the top prize of $306,555 USD.

The second fast-paced £25,000 buy-in event drew just 19 players, building a prize pool of $510,933 USD. The smaller field resulted in just the top four finishers making the money, with bracelet winner and high-stakes tournament regular Daniel Dvoress coming out on top in the end.

The Canadian poker pro earned $219,710 USD and his sixth career tournament title as the champion. The score increased his lifetime earnings to nearly $23.8 million. He also secured 168 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his second title and 15th final-table finish of the year. With more than $5.3 million in year-to-date POY earnings and 3,999 total points, he now sits in 20th place in the 2022 POY race standings presented by Global Poker.

Dvoress knocked out fellow Canadian Sam Greenwood on the bubble, beating A-Q with K-9 suited to narrow the field to four. He then sent bracelet winner Danny Tang packing in fourth when his pocket eights outran Tang’s pocket tens in a roller-coaster runout. Dvoress flopped a set, only to have Tang turn a higher set while giving Dvoress a backdoor flush draw. A fourth heart hit the board on the river, giving Dvoress the winning flush. Tang earned $61,309 as the fourth-place finisher.

Dvoress shoved into the short-stacked players in the blinds with 9-5 suited in the next key showdown. Pablo Brito called from the small blind with A-J. Dvoress made nines up by the river to secure the pot and take a massive lead into heads-up play.

Two-time bracelet winner Joao Vieira got the last of his short stack in with 7-6. Dvoress had him at risk with A-J. Vieira moved ahead by pairing his seven on the flop, but Dvoress caught an ace on the turn and a jack on the river for good measure, making two pair to lock up the win.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

Danish poker pro Henrik Hecklen is having one of his best years ever on the live tournament circuit in 2022. He has made seven final tables, with two titles won along the way. More than $4.8 million of his nearly $9.5 million in career earnings have been secured this year, including a massive win in the Triton Madrid €100,000 buy-in event for nearly $2.3 million.

Hecklen’s latest big score saw him defeat a field of 39 entries in the £50,000 buy-in high roller at EPT London. Hecklen earned $731,024 USD and 408 POY points for the win. He now sits in 38th place on the POY leaderboard.

The top six finishers cashed in this event, with none other than Sam Greenwood being the bubble boy this time around as well. Juan Pardo took the chip lead into the final day with the six in-the-money fishers remaining. Pardo knocked out Dvoress, taking the majority of his stack with an ace-high hero call to leave Dvoress on fumes. He got his single remaining chip in with A-4 leading Pardo’s Q-8, but the Spaniard made a pair of eights to send Dvoress home with $148,322 USD.

Bracelet winner Ben Heath ran A-Q into the pocket aces of Hecklen to finish fifth ($190,702 USD). Pardo then extended his lead by winning a flip against Bruno Volkmann. K-Q outran pocket sixes, making kings up on the river to eliminate Volkmann in fourth place ($243,678 USD).

Philip Sternheimer was left short after running kings up into the aces of Heckleb. He then got the last of his short stack in preflop with 6-5 facing A-4 for Hecklen, who flopped the wheel and held from there. Sternheimer earned $328,429 USD as the third-place finisher.

With that, heads-up play was set with Pardo holding 7 million to Hecklen’s 2.75 million. Hecklen was able to battle his way into the lead in time for the final hand of the event. With a final board of Q10923, Pardo moved all-in. Hecklen called with 109 for tens up, which was good against the J2 of Pardo (2nd – $476,762 USD).

This was the second big score of the series for Pardo, who had taken down the £10,200 buy-in mystery bounty event just days earlier for approximately $279,000 with bounty payouts included.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:

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