Third Smallest Field in SHRB History Capping what has been an amazing fortnight of poker, Michael Addamo outlasted a small field in the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl VI to capture the championship. This comes on the heels of Addamo’s stunning run at the 2021 Poker Masters, where he went from nowhere to the overall championship after winning the final two events on the schedule. Over the past two weeks, Addamo has taken down more than $5.2 million in High Roller paydays.
Perhaps because of the upcoming World Series of Poker (which started on Thursday), the field for the sixth running of the Super High Roller Bowl was an intimate affair. Only fifteen entries were registered in the first day of competition, with only six more coming in before the start of Day 2. The 21 entries made it the third smallest SHRB competition in the history of the competitions, only besting the 2019 Super High Roller Bowl London (12 entries) and the 2020 Super High Roller Bowl Australia (16 entries).
With that said, there was some drama, especially in the departure of one of the major competitors. In the very first level of the tournament, Daniel Negreanu would misread Addamo, and it would cost Negreanu his tournament existence. Many have debated that Negreanu overplayed his hand, but some have stated that there was a good chance that Negreanu beat Addamo’s range and therefore had the best hand.
In the situation (and with the players still extremely deep stacked from their 300,000 starting stacks), Negreanu made a standard two and a half times raise (2500) on the button but holding Big Slick. As has become standard, Addamo defended his big blind with only an 8-6 off suit for battle. What came afterward is where the debate begins.
The flop came 5-7-9 rainbow, giving Addamo the nearly unbeatable nuts in the hand, but he chose to slow play the situation and Negreanu decided to see another card also. The Ace on the turn gave Negreanu top pair but also left him drawing dead in the hand. Addamo innocently checked his option and Negreanu acquiesced […]
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