But before he tackles the high-roller regs with whom he's butted heads so many times, he said he's looking get back to a different strategy game. One with less ROI but that he's been enjoying immensely of late: chess. Negreanu has already played in one tournament, and he's got another coming up pitting him against other big names in the poker. One who spends freely and extravagantly, as for luxuries or entertainment.

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After nearly ten hours of play, Ludovic 'Gr4vyB04t' Geilich took down Event #30: Super High Roller $25,500, $2.5M Gtd. for $635,080. Geilich made it through the 127 player field to get heads up with Belgian grinder Bert Stevens, who is perhaps better known as 'girafganger7'.

The two cut a deal before heads-up play when Stevens had slightly more chips than Geilich, meaning Stevens actually earned slightly more than Geilich despite finishing second.

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Geilich is no stranger to big results. With more than $3 million in earnings on the live felt and more than $4 million in the virtual arena, Geilich is one of the best in the world no matter where the cards are dealt. The $635K he earned from this event represents his biggest score either live or online, eclipsing both the $300K+ score he earned live in 2013 at EPT London for 4th place, as well as his $462,182 win in 2016's WCOOP-70: $21,000 PL Omaha [6-Max, High-Roller].

Final Table Results

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Event #30: Super High Roller $25,500, $2.5M Gtd. got underway at 3 p.m. Eastern time with five hours of late registration. By the time the registration window was closed, 127 entries swelled the prize pool to $3,175,000, more than 25% above the guarantee.

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There were still 44 players left at the tables when registration closed, fighting for 17 paid spots. It took a little over an hour before Seth Davies was eliminated on the money bubble after getting it in good with kings over queens, but then losing out to Finland's Sami Kelopuro when a queen hit the river.

Along the way, big-name players like Isaac Haxton and Mikita Badziakouski lost their chips just before the money, as did Chi Zhang, who fired six bullets in this one before busting near the money bubble.

Just over an hour passed before they were down to the final table. Wiktor Malinowski, better known on the online cash streets as 'limitless', was the unfortunate player to bubble the final table. He lost a race with eights to Geilich's ace-king when the Scotsman flopped a king.

That set up a final table that took just over two hours to complete. Among the big names to make the final table were American David Coleman (8th for $102,648), Finnish player Kelopuro (7th for $135,992), and Canadian Daniel Dvoress (5th for $238,691).

They played four-handed for about an hour, even trying to cut an ICM deal at one point that was rejected by 'hashtag_fold', before David Yan became the next casualty when his king-seven couldn't hold against the queen-seven of Stevens, and that opened the floodgates. 'hashtag_fold' followed Yan to the exit immediately after, and after Stevens and Geilich cut a deal heads up, they only played two hands before Geilich took it down.

The deal was cut at the start of heads-up play when Stevens had the slight edge in chips. That gave Stevens the biggest payout at the end, $655,298 to $635,080 for Geilich, but it was Geilich who got the official win.

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