Chad Eveslage Wins $100,000 Mixed Game Super High Roller Bowl for $1.2m

Chad Eveslage piled up $1.2m in winnings in Las Vegas this weekend after capturing as the biggest Mixed Games event in title ever in Sin City. Winning the $100,000-entry Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games event for $1.2 million, Eveslage outlasted the seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu and British mixed game specialist Benny Glaser, as he passed $9.47 million in lifetime live earnings.

First-Ever Mixed Games Super High Roller Bowl Fills Up

The inaugural Super High Roller Bowl in the mixed games format was a massive success in Las Vegas this week as the $100,000-entry tournament on PokerGO saw Chad Eveslage win the $1.2 million top prize after five players make the money in a fierce battle for high stakes mixed games bragging rights. Taking place at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada, there were 29 entries in total, creating a prizepool of $2.9 million.

Over the past fortnight, PokerGO have cornered the market in mixed games worth playing for high rollers, with the PGT Mixed Games series welcoming hundreds of players to Las Vegas to play different formats in the PokerGO Studio at the ARIA. Players such as Josh Arieh and Chino Rheem won hundreds of thousands of dollars between them, and this time, the $100,000 Mixed Games Super High Roller Bowl paid just five players.

Bubbling the event was the sometime PokerGO commentator Nick Schulman, who lost out as Texas Mike, otherwise known as Michael Moncek. Schulman slunk out of the building while the five remaining players celebrated not only making the final table but the elimination of such an illustrious opponent.

Top of the chipcounts was Texas Mike with a stack of 2.51 million chips with the Brazilian player Yuri Dzivielevski (2.37m), British mixed game specialist Benny Glaser (1.53m), Chad Eveslage (1.32m), and the short stack, Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu, on 975,000 chips.

Kid Poker Can’t Get the Candy

With five left, it wasn’t Negreanu who suffered the opening defeat of the final day. The British multiple WSOP bracelet winner and mixed game specialist Benny Glaser was all-in from the small blind in a hand of No Limit 2-7 Single Draw hand against Brazilian pro Yuri Dzivielevski but across the board, Dzivielvski made ten-nine and Glaser couldn’t match him, cashing for $225,000 in fifth place.

Poker Hall of Famer and Canada’s best Daniel Negreanu was out next, winning $300,000 in fourth place. In a hand of Badugi, Texas Mike made six-four on his final draw and Negreanu stood pat, only making for a nine-five Badugi, leaving with a sizeable score but not the trophy to match the one he picked up in the PGT Mixed Games series the week before (pictured below).

As a protracted period of three-handed play took place, both Chad Eveslage and Texas Mike doubled up having both been short stack.  It turned out Dzivielevski would miss out on heads-up, as he was defeated in NL 2-7 Single Draw by Texas Mike, a double pair not enough to save the Brazilian as he cashed for $450,000 in third place.

Eveslage Battles Back in Heads-Up Play

Heads-up, Texas Mike had a big lead over Chad Eveslage, but the latter fought back doubling up with ace-king in Limit Hold’em after he made top pair of kings against Mike’s nine-seven which only paired the latter. Eveslage took the lead soon after in the same format, a flush beating Texas Mike’s two-pair.

Eveslage didn’t let go of the lead with Moncek’s regularity and in No Limit Hold’em, a board of A-Q-T-Q-2 saw Eveslage shove with king-jack. Texas Mike thought it was a stone-cold bluff and pulled the trigger with just jack-high, but he was dead wrong and that killed his chances of victory as he claimed the $725,000 runner-up prize.

For Chad Eveslage, the top prize of a record $1.2 million in a mixed games event was his, and with his fifth PGT victory and 11^th overall lifetime ranking title, he moved past the $9.47 million mark on The Hendon Mob as the latest winner on the PokerGO Tour.