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The latest winner at the 2024 Super High Roller Series is Maksim Vaskresenski. He captured the title in Event #5: $102,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event (8-Max) to win $1,250,000. Vaskresenski topped a 35-entry field to get the win.
For Vaskresenski, it was the first live tournament victory of his career, according to TheHendonMob.com. He had previously never finished better than third place in a live event, and had a previous best career score of $337,000 for a sixth-place result from a Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Jeju event. It was Vaskresenski's second cash of the 2024 Super High Roller Series after he placed sixth in the opening event.
2024 Super High Roller Series Event #5 Results
| Place | Player | Country | Prize Money | PGT Points |
| 1st | Maksim Vaskresenski | Poland | $1,250,000 | 400 |
| 2nd | Thomas Santerne | France | $870,000 | 261 |
| 3rd | Brian Kim | United States | $610,000 | 183 |
| 4th | Adrian Mateos | Spain | $420,000 | 126 |
| 5th | Artsiom Lasouski | Belarus | $280,000 | 84 |
On the final day of the event, nine players returned. Only the top five spots would make the money, and the money bubble burst when recent Poker Hall of Fame inductee Patrik Antonius hit the rail in sixth place. That allowed the final five players to secure a $280,000 score.
With five players remaining and all in the money, the action moved to the PokerGO livestream set from the Onyx Club at Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus. It was on the livestream that we saw Artsiom Lasouski bust in fifth place when he ran pocket sixes into the pocket nines of Adrian Mateos. A clean runout left Mateos nines best and Lasouski was out the door with a fifth-place payout worth $280,000.
Next to go was Mateos. After Thomas Santerne, holding pocket queens, raised from the button to 220,000 with the blinds at 50,000-100,000, Mateos three-bet jammed for 1,930,000 from the big blind with ace-three. Santerne made the call, the queens held up, and Mateos was eliminated because Santerne had the covering stack.
For Mateos, the result was his third consecutive final table at the 2024 Super High Roller Series, and this finish earned him $420,000. With a second-place finish in Event #3, a third-place finish in Event #4, and a fourth-place finish in Event #5, Mateos has cashed for $913,000 and picked up 422 PGT leaderboard points. With those added points, Mateos climbed to eighth on the season leaderboard.
During three-handed play, Brian Kim three-bet jammed with jack-ten of diamonds over the top of a raise from Maksim Vaskresenski. Vaskresenski had ace-king of hearts and called. Vaskresenski's hand held, leaving Kim short. Kim was able to find one double up when his ace-queen beat Santerne's pocket queens, but the next time his money went in would be his last. Kim was all in with ace-eight of diamonds against the ten-nine of hearts for Santerne. A ten-high flop gave Santerne the lead, but Kim did have plenty of outs with two diamonds on the flop. The turn and river bricked off for Kim to eliminate him in third place. Kim earned $610,000 and 183 PGT leaderboard points, moving to 13th on the season leaderboard.
The stacks were close to start heads-up play. Santerne led 4,725,000 (37 big blinds) over Vaskresenski's 4,025,000 (32 big blinds). Each player was guaranteed $870,000 and they were battling for a difference of $380,000 in prize money.
Vaskresenski took the lead early in the heads-up duel and stretched out a gap from there. Eventually, the money went in with his king-seven up against Santerne's queen-six. A king hit the flop and another king hit the turn, giving Vaskresenski the victory and $1,250,000. Santerne earned $870,000 for his second-place finish.
PGT Leaderboard Top 10
| Rank | Player | PGT Points | Wins | Cashes | Winnings |
| 1st | Michael Rocco | 1,835 | 1 | 7 | $2,156,811 |
| 2nd | Jeremy Ausmus | 1,760 | 0 | 17 | $3,969,576 |
| 3rd | Jonathan Tamayo | 1,730 | 1 | 2 | $10,180,000 |
| 4th | Jesse Lonis | 1,713 | 1 | 13 | $2,568,339 |
| 5th | Daniel Negreanu | 1,660 | 2 | 15 | $2,019,231 |
| 6th | Aram Zobian | 1,438 | 2 | 13 | $1,307,392 |
| 7th | Dylan Weisman | 1,405 | 3 | 14 | $1,475,099 |
| 8th | Adrian Mateos | 1,374 | 0 | 9 | $2,492,514 |
| 9th | David Coleman | 1,357 | 4 | 13 | $1,073,228 |
| 10th | Jordan Griff | 1,350 | 0 | 1 | $6,000,000 |
These are the leaderboard standings as of Thursday, August 22, 2024. The complete and current PGT leaderboard is at pgt.com/leaderboard.
The next event on the Super High Roller Series schedule is Event #6: $25,750 No-Limit Hold'em Mystery Bounty (6-Max). Then it's time for the headlining event of the series, the $306,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl IX.
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