Maher Nouira Wins Super High Roller Series Event #3 for $333,000

The 2024 Super High Roller Series continued from the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus, as Maher Nouira claimed the victory in Event #3: $25,750 No-Limit Hold'em (6-Max) to win his first PGT title.

The Tunisian topped a 41-entrant field and won his second event of 2024 after he won the EPT Monte Carlo €25K No-Limit Hold'em for €369,210 in May. This win for $333,000 ranks as Nouira's third-largest career score, with the biggest being a fourth-place finish in the 2024 Triton Montenegro $100K No-Limit Hold'em event for $933,000. Nouira now has amassed more than $3.5 million in lifetime tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob, where he is also first in Tunisia's All-Time Money List by more than $2.7 million.

The final table action picked up with seven players remaining, and only six of them would take home a piece of the prize pool. Both Samuel Ju and Ren Lin began sliding down the leaderboard, while Spaniard Adrian Mateos moved up as he pressured the short stacks. Ju then lost ace-queen to Jamil Wakil's kings to have less than a small blind, but he survived two all-ins to be back with over four big blinds. As Lin and Ju tried to outlast each other, it would Lin being eliminated on the bubble when he was forced all-in from the big blind with queen-deuce and was against the jack-three-suited of Mateos. Mateos turned a jack, and when Lin bricked his straight draw and overcard on the river, he was eliminated in seventh place.

Ju would follow Lin out the door shortly after when he was all-in with eight-five-suited against the king-jack-suited of Wakil. Ju turned a gutshot and was drawing live to pairing his hole cards, but when the river bricked, Event #3 was down to the final five players. Canadian Daniel Dvoress was then at-risk for his last five big blinds holding queen-jack against the ace-queen of Nouira. Dvoress turned a straight, but when the river bricked, he was eliminated in fifth place.

The short stack was now Bulgarian Yulian Bogdanov, and although he found one double through Nouira, his end would come shortly after. Bogdanov was all-in holding ace-five against Nouira's pocket queens, and although he flopped a gutshot, no help came for Bogdanov and was eliminated in fourth place. As the two chip leaders traded pots back and forth, eventually, Canadian Jamil Wakil would find himself all-in with king-eight-suited against the jack-four of Nouira. Both players flopped a pair, but Nouira rivered two pair to eliminate Wakil in third place to take a 7,070,000-chip advantage into heads-up play against Mateos' 1,135,000. 

Mateos found a double with ace-king, and then rivered trips to draw to nearly event with Nouira. However, the final hand would see Nouira turn the second nut straight and Mateos would shove the river with ten-high to be eliminated as the runner-up. Nouira collected the $333,000 first-place prize, 200 PGT points, and PGT Gold Cup.

2024 Super High Roller Series Event #3 Results

After his victory, Maher Nouira moved to 219th on the PGT leaderboard with 200 PGT points. Adrian Mateos parlayed his second-place finish into 24th place on the PGT leaderboard with 1,091 PGT points. 

Jamil Wakil sits 399th on the PGT leaderboard, while Yulian Bogdanov is 262nd on the PGT leaderboard with 152 PGT points from three PGT cashes. Daniel Dvoress claimed his first PGT cash of the season, while this was Samuel Ju's second cash as he sits 398th on the PGT leaderboard with 100 PGT points.

PGT Leaderboard Top 10 

These are the leaderboard standings as of Tuesday, August 20, 2024. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.

The next event on the Super High Roller Series schedule is Event #4: $51,500 No-Limit Hold'em (7-Max). Following that on Wednesday will be the Event #5: $102,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event, followed by Event #6: $25,750 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty on Thursday, and then the $306,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl IX on Friday.

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