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Before today, John Riordan's largest career cash sat at just north of $200,000 and came all the way back in 2011 when he won the WSOP Circuit stop at the Palm Beach Kennel Club, but after coming back from a nearly four-to-one chip disadvantage during three-handed play, he now has a new high score after taking down the Super High Roller Bowl: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 2025 for $1,250,000 plus 400 PGT points after three grueling days inside the PokerGO Studio.
Riordan, who came into the day as a clear third in chips, could do nothing but sit back and watch as Sam Soverel, who went into the day as the chip leader, could do no wrong for the first thirty minutes of play, as the Florida native sent Artur Martirosyan home in fifth place for $300,000 plus 90 PGT points and Joni Jouhkimainen home in fourth place for $400,0000 plus 120 PGT points.
Soverel's hot streak would continue for the next level and a half as he took down pot after pot to widen his chip advantage over Riordan and Joao Simao to a nearly five-to-one chip lead over the pair, as at one point Soverel had amassed almost 75% of the chips in play three-handed.
However, as the players returned from their first break of the day for the start of level 18 with the blinds at 40,000/80,000 with an 80,000 big blind ante, cracks began to form in Soverel's mountain of chips, with the first big chunk falling off when Riordan turned a higher two pair to double.
Riordan would then score his second double of the level through the chip leader when his pocket aces held against Soverel's flopped top pair to move him into a solid second in chips, leaving Simao on the short stack.
Simao attempted to put some chips back into his stack with a river-check raise moments later, but when Soverel snap called with top two pair, Simao's queen-high bluff went down in flames and left him with just over ten big blinds.
Those last big blinds ended up in the middle one hand later with Simao holding 
on a 
and appeared in decent shape when Soverel tabled 
for just top pair. Unfortunately for the Brazilian, the turn fell the 
and when the river fell the 
Soverel improved to a full house and Simao was headed to the payout cage in third place for $550,000 plus 165 PGT points.
The elimination gave Soverel just over a two-to-one chip lead to start the heads-up match, and with both players sitting north of 40 big blinds, a long, drawn-out battle appeared in the cards, but the deck had other plans.
On the second hand of heads-up play, after Riordan potted pre and checked the 
flop. Soverel made queens and sevens on the 
turn, putting in a bet of 290,000. Riordan called, and when the river fell, the 
a pot size bet of over one million was slid into the middle by Soverel, only for Riordan to snap call, tabling sixes and sevens for a turned full house to draw even in chips. Riordan took the chip lead a few hands later when he sniffed out a Soverel check-raise on the flop to flip the script entirely.
The first three-bet pot of the heads-up match would put an end to the tournament moments later, when on a flop of 
the rest of Soverel's 3,795,000 found their way into the middle courtesy of the 
for a flopped two pair.
Riordan tabled 
for just the nut flush draw, but when the turn fell the and the river failed to come up a five or a six, his turned nut-flush was best to send Soverel home in second place for $825,000 plus 248 PGT Points.
SHRB: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 2025 Final Table Payouts
| Place | Name | Country | PGT Points | Prize |
| 1st | John Riordan | United States | 400 | $1,250,000 |
| 2nd | Sam Soverel | United States | 248 | $825,000 |
| 3rd | Joao Simao | Brazil | 165 | $550,000 |
| 4th | Joni Jouhkimainen | Finland | 120 | $400,000 |
| 5th | Artur Martirosyan | Russia | 90 | $300.000 |
Sam Soverel Moves to Number Two on Season Leaderboard
With his second-place finish at the Super High Roller: $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 2025, Sam Soverel added 248 points to his season total to vault Chino Rheem for second place on the season leaderboard with 2,505 points. Alex Foxen still sits atop the leaderboard with 2,816 points, 311 points ahead of Soverel.
Rounding out the top five are 2025 WSOP Main Event Champion Michael Mizrachi, who sits in fourth with 2,250 points, but has only two of the three required cashes to qualify for the championship, and Nick Schulman, who sits in fifth with 1,921 points.
With the win, Riordan picked up his first title of the 2025 season to go along with his 28th cash and added 400 points to his total to move into the top ten with 1,549 points, 41 points behind Jesse Lonis for eighth on the leaderboard.
Just on the outside of the top ten, looking in, is third-place finisher Simao, who picked up 165 points to bring his 2025 season total to 1,398 points, 118 points behind Andrew Lichtenberger for the 10th-place spot.
A complete list of the Top 40 and beyond can be found here.
2025 PGT Season Leaderboard - Top Ten
| Rank | Player | Points | Wins | Cashes | Winnings |
| 1 | Alex Foxen | 2,816 | 4 | 24 | $5,926,948 |
| 2 | Sam Soverel | 2,505 | 3 | 23 | $3,414,128 |
| 3 | Chino Rheem | 2,340 | 5 | 28 | $2,616,703 |
| 4 | Michael Mizrachi | 2,250 | 2 | 2 | $11,331,322 |
| 5 | Nick Schulman | 1,921 | 1 | 25 | $2,154,753 |
| 6 | Adam Hendrix | 1,610 | 1 | 6 | $2,408,632 |
| 7 | Daniel Negreanu | 1,597 | 2 | 20. | $2,397,441 |
| 8 | Jesse Lonis | 1,590 | 3 | 19 | $1,873,692 |
| 9 | John Riordan | 1,549 | 1 | 28 | $2,414,813 |
| 10 | Andrew Lichtenberger | 1,516 | 1 | 14 | $2,318,032 |
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