Last Friday the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas hosted their second $100,000 Super High Roller. The event had 22 entries and a prizepool of almost $2.2 million, with many big names like Igor Kurganov, Andrew Robl, Doug "WCGRider" Polk, Philipp Gruissem and Brian Rast making an apperance.
Three places were paid, and the winner was Tom Marchese (pictured above). This $1.3 million score is Marchese’s second biggest of his career, his biggest score was finishing in 3rd place in the first ever Aria Super High Roller in June, which earned him $1.465 million. The $2.8 million he won in the Aria tournaments is a large percentage of his $7.5 million lifetime cashes.
The runner-up was businessman Cary Katz, in the final hand his KJ failed to improve against Marchese’s AQ in a preflop all-in. Katz recently came in 8th place in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop aswell, and the $653,000 he earned is his second biggest score aswell.
Brian Rast finished in third for $218,000, and Andrew Robl was the bubble boy after running his K9 into Rast’s KQ.
