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After two days of action and fourteen grueling levels of poker, Sam Soverel found the overnight chip lead with 4,035,000 as five players remain in the third rendition of the Super High Roller Bowl: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha, with the final table set to continue at 1:00 P.M. PT from inside the PokerGO Studio on October 29th with the live stream avalible starting at 2:00 P.M. PT on PokerGO.com.
When the day began, seven players took advantage of the late entry window, taking their seats before cards got in the air, and among them was 2024 champion Seth Davies, who, despite an earlier triple up, could get nothing going before bowing out before reaching the money.
However, three players who were in the late registration group did manage to find a bag into Day Three as Soverel, John Riordan, and Joao Simao not only survived the day but are the three largest stacks left in the feild as Simao bagged 3,225,000, while Riordan sits in a comfortable third with 1,905,000.
Start of day chip leader Joni Jouhkimainen began Day Two with just shy of two million in chips, but was card dead for much of the day and put 1,070,000 into the bag for Day Three. Rounding out the players left in the field is Artur Martirosyan, who will be on the short stack with 865,000 when play resumes and the blinds increase to 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 big blind ante for the start of Level 15.
Overall, 37 entrants paid the $100,000 buy-in, creating a prize pool of $3,700,000 with the winner taking home a cool $1,250,000 plus 400 PGT points, while the final five players have locked up at least $300,000 plus 90 PGT points, with the top seven players finding a piece of the prize pool.
PGT regulars Chino Rheem, Jesse Lonis, Jason Koon, Isaac Haxton, and Stephen Chidwick all where apart of Day Two but none of the high flyers found a piece of the prize pool and while Dylan Weisman came close he would find himself on the outside looking in after Soverel flopped a flush to send him home in eighth place one spot shy of the money.
With Weisman out of the way and the $150,000 min-cash secured, the final seven players converged on one table, and it wasn't long before fireworks ensued as inaugural 2023 SHRB: PLO Champion Jared Bleznick tangoed with Soverel in a monster pot.
Bleznick, who has now made the final table in all three years of this event, was making magic happen on the money bubble as he scored three doubles in a row with aggressive plays, but that aggression would come back to bite him as Bryce Yockey was sitting on just shy of 25 big blind with the blinds at 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 big blind when Bleznick commited well over a million chips into the middle with two pair, the nut flush draw and a broadway straight draw on the turn with the board reading
.
Unfortunately for Bleznick, Soverel had turned the nut straight, and when the board failed to improve Bleznick on the river, he hit the rail in seventh place for $150,000 plus 45 PGT points.
Bleznick's misstep was Yockey's gain as he scored the ladder to sixth place, but he too would fall to the onslaught that was Soverel when, after five time extensions on the river with the board reading
, Yockey called with a set of jacks only for Soverel to table the queen-high flush, leaving him with just three big blinds.
All of Yockey's chips went into the middle from the small blind on the next hand with
against Soverel's
. The flop fell four high, and despite turning a flush draw, Yockey ended the hand with just ace-queen high, leaving him headed to the payout cage in sixth place for $225,000 plus 68 PGT points.
When play resumes, the button will be on Sam Soverel with John Riordan in the small blind and Joao Simao in the big blind for the start of Level 15 with the blinds at 25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 big blind ante for a full 60 minutes of play.
| Rank | Name | Country | Chip Counts |
| 1st | Sam Soverel | United States | 4,035,000 |
| 2nd | Joao Simao | Brazil | 3,225,000 |
| 3rd | John Riordan | United States | 1,905,000 |
| 4th | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | 1,070,000 |
| 5th | Artur Martirosyan | Russia | 865,000 |
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