The record books show that Adrian Mateos won the $25,500 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller at partypoker MILLIONS WORLD Bahamas, but Brock Wilson was the real winner.
125-entrants created a $3.125m prize pool, and Wilson collected the most significant chunk of change after securing a favourable heads-up deal with Adrian Mateos that saw him earn a lifetime best of $619,536. After striking the agreement, the pair agreed to flip for the title; Mateos won.
Wilson won’t be too bothered about that. The win dwarfs his previous best score of $62,250, earned during a World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) victory in the summer of 2018.
Mateos banked $520,464 for his 15th win in 153 ITM finishes. It’s his first victory since taking down a $25k High Roller at the Aria in the summer of 2018, and his biggest win since taking fifth in the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl for $972,000.
The #1 Spanish All-Time Money earner now has $18.2m in live tournament cashes, $6.1m ahead of the legendary Carlos Mortensen.
Final Table Seat Draw
Seat 1: Adrian Mateos – 15,500,000
Seat 2: David Eldridge – 16,000,000
Seat 3: Michael Zhang – 8,300,000
Seat 4: Niall Farrell – 6,200,000
Seat 5: Christopher Fraser – 26,600,000
Seat 6: Orpen Kisacikoglu – 14,000,000
Seat 7: Brock Wilson – 18,800,000
Seat 8: Ben Pollak – 19,200,000
The Nutshell Action
Michael Zhang opened to 3,900,000 from midfield, and then called when Christopher Fraser moved all-in with the covering stack from the cutoff. It was a flip with Fraser ahead with pocket tens against Big Slick. The tens dodged both the ace and king’s sentry towers to send Zhang to the rail.
The next elimination pitted Niall Farrell in the role of the sheepdog, and Orpen Kisacikoglu as the sheep. Scotland’s number one moved all-in from the button holding pocket fives, and Kisacikoglu called with Kd8s. Farrell dodged both overcards and ushered the London-based entrepreneur quietly to the rail.
Benjamin Pollak was the next player to feel spit turning into foam. Brock Wilson made it 1,700,000 to play from under the gun and then called after the Frenchman moved all-in for 14,000,000 in the next seat. Wilson called, and his pocket aces made the ace-ten of Pollak want to climb back into the deck’s womb. The Js9d7h flop gave Pollak some hope; the turn and river did not.
Then we lost Niall Farrell in the fifth place. The No-Limit Gaming ambassador moved all-in from the button holding Ah7c and ten big blinds, only for Fraser to call and gobble him up like Desperate Dan eats meat pies with KsQh in the small blind – a king on the flop seeing Fraser wiping his mouth with glee.
Fraser wiped another player off the map when he called an all-in from David Aldridge holding pocket nines. Aldridge turned over pocket eights, the Poker Gods resisted the temptation to create an upset, and Aldridge was out.
Heading into three-handed action, Brock Wilson was the man.
Chip Counts
Brock Wilson – 82,300,000
Adrian Mateos – 25,700,000
Christopher Fraser – 17,000,000
Heads-up would become a battle between America and Spain after Wilson eliminated Fraser in third-place. Fraser shipped his final 15 bigs on a flop of Kx8x4x, and Wilson made the call. Fraser held 7x5x for the gutterball, and Wilson was ahead with Ks3s for top pair. The nefarious gutshot never showed, and Wilson took a massive lead into heads-up action.
Heads-Up Tale of the Tape
Brock Wilson – 98,500,000
Adrian Mateos – 27,500,000
Wilson caught Mateos’s hand in the cookie jar to extend his lead to 105,000,000 v 18,500,000.
Mateos doubled up when pocket tens beat Ks8s.
Brock Wilson – 80,600,000
Adrian Mateos – 44,400,000
It’s at this time that heads-up aficionados were left bitterly disappointed. The pair decided to run the numbers, Wilson banked $619,536, Mateos collected $520,464, and the couple then flipped for the trophy, title, and headlines – the Spaniard won.
Final Table Results
- Adrian Mateos – $520,464*
- Brock Wilson – $619,536*
- Christopher Fraser – $326,250
- David Eldridge – $255,000
- Niall Farrell – $200,000
- Ben Pollak – $160,000
- Orpen Kisacikoglu – $135,000
- Michael Zhang – $115,000
*Indicates a heads-up deal
Seven more high rollers who went deeper than an hour-long discussion on the existence of perversion were Darren Elias (9th), Rainer Kempe (12th), Peter Jetten (13th), Sean Winter (14th), Kristen Bicknell (15th), Alex Foxen (16th, and Elio Fox (17th).