Chad Eveslage piled up the dollars in Las Vegas as he captured the biggest Mixed Game title in many years in Sin City. Taking down the $100,000-entry Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games tournament for $1.2 million. With appearances at the final table by the seven-time WSOP bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu as well as Kid Poker’s fellow PokerStake player Benny Glaser, it was a thrilling ride to the finish line.

Inaugural Mixed Games Super High Roller Bowl a Huge Success

The first-ever Super High Roller Bowl was a roaring success in Las Vegas this week as the $100,000-entry Mixed Games tournament saw five players make the money at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, Nevada. When the chips settled, it was Chad Eveslage who won the $1.2 million top prize after beating Michael ‘Texas Mike’ Moncek heads-up.

It was the jewel in the crown of a stunning week at the mixed games felt for players such as Josh Arieh and Chino Rheem, who won the overall title and a $10,000 PGT Passport after he and Arieh chopped one of the biggest two prizes in the series last week. With 29 entries creating a $2.9m prizepool, Nick Schulman was the unfortunate player who finished in sixth place and thus missed out on a return on his six-figure investment in the event.

Schulman’s exit meant each of the final five were now in profit in the highest-entry Mixed Game tournament of all, and heading into the final day, Texas Mike led the way, with a stack of 2.51 million chips. Behind him was the Brazilian player Yuri Dzivielevski with 2.37 million, with PokerStake seller Benny Glaser very healthy in chips on 1.53 million. Chad Eveslage, the eventual winner, started with 1.32 million, while Daniel Negreanu, whose selling package to the WSOP always goes quickly each summer on PokerStake, was on 975,000 as short stack.

Kid Poker Crashes Out

Everything that could go wrong did for the British multiple WSOP bracelet winner and mixed game specialist Benny Glaser. Coming into the No Limit 2-7  Single Draw hand against Dzivielevski, Glaser needed to push for a double and was all-in from the small blind. The Brazilian was the only caller and across the board, managed to make ten-nine and Glaser fell short, exiting for a very respectable score of $225,000, more than doubling his investment and that of PokerStake backers.

Next to go was the Canadian Daniel Negreanu. The chip flew around, changing hands on multiple occasions for over an hour before Kid Poker lost in Badugi to Texas Mike. Moncek made six-four on his final draw and Negreanu stood pat on the final draw for a nine-five badugi. Negreanu cashed for $300,000, adding to his event win in the PGT Mixed Games series as a great week at the mixed game felt ended.

Both Chad Eveslage and Texas Mike needed to double-up from the bottom of the pile at separate points over an epic period without an elimination. Eventually, it was Dzivielevski who ducked out, losing to Texas Mike in NL 2-7 Single Draw, as the Brazilian had a double pair but was still busted, cashing for $450,000 in third place.

Eveslage Wins Bumper Top Prize

Heads-up, Texas Mike had a big lead, but Chad Eveslage fought back bravely, doubling with in Limit Hold’em when a board of gave him top pair, top kicker against Texas Mike’s for a pair of sevens. Eveslage soon took the lead in the same format, with a flush topping Texas Mike’s two-pair.

That switched the lead and Eveslage wasn’t about to relinquish it so swiftly. In No Limit Hold’em, Both men limped to a flop of whereupon Eveslage bet and Texas Mike called. A on the turn led to another bet and call in the same order before a completed the board.

Eveslage shoved with the bigger stack holding and Texas Mike called for his final scraps with just jack-high, winning $725,000 as runner-up, as Eveslage claimed $1.2 million as the winner. Taking home his fifth career PGT title, Eveslage’s victory was only smaller than the $1,415,610 he won as the 2022 WSOP $25k High Roller champion, bringing his overall winnings on The Hendon Mob to over $9.47m in lifetime tournament earnings.

PGT Mixed Games $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Final Table Results:
Place	Player	Country	Prize
1st	Chad Eveslage	United States	$1,200,000
2nd	Michael Moncek	United States	$725,000
3rd	Yuri Dzivielevski	Brazil	$450,000
4th	Daniel Negreanu	Canada	$300,000
5th	Benny Glaser	United Kingdom	$225,000