The fifth of the High Roller competitions at the Pokerstars Championship Macau hosted by the City of Dreams is in the record books, with a hard-earned win by German poker pro Oliver Weiss after a tough heads up against Belarus ace Mikita Badziakouski.
Weiss collected $402,860 for his win in the HK$ 206,000 buy-in Single Re-Entry Shot Clock II competition, which pulled in 38 players and nine re-entries and took just twelve hours to finalise.
Among those who bought into the game were formidable players like JC Alvarado, Dario Sammartino, Isaac Haxton, Bertrand Grospellier, Mustapha Kanit and Steve O’Dwyer.JC Alvarado, and John Juanda.
Weiss found the Belarussian a hard nut to crack in the fast-moving heads up but was fortunate to score a major pot on the third hand, followed by another big win on the very next hand, putting paid to Badziakouski’s plan and sending him home with a second placing prize worth $278,657.
It was Weiss’s biggest career win yet by a long way, eclipsing his previous highest cash of $154,940 in a March 2015 high roller contest.
Other finali tables to cash were:
Canlin Chen $177,877
Timothy Adams $136,437
Zuo Wang $106,829
John Juanda $83,020