The second day of the $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Pot-Limit Omaha extravaganza wrapped up play at the PokerGO Studio late Tuesday night, bagging up the final five players for the Day 3 finale on Wednesday.
Seven more entries jumped in on Day 2, bringing the grand total to 37 with 18 players left to go on Tuesday afternoon. The top seven would get paid with $1,250,000 waiting up top for the winner.
Joni Jouhkimainen entered the second day as leader, trailed by Jesse Lonis, Bryce Yockey, and Dylan Weisman in a top four that all broke the one million chip mark on Day 1. Jouhkimainen would end up squeaking into the final five, while Yockey busted on the Day 3 bubble. Weisman was ousted on the final table bubble in eighth place, just outside the money, and Lonis hit the rail in 10th. Jared Bleznick also jumped in for more action on Day 2, but fell short of a second SHRB PLO title with a seventh-place finish, just inside the money.
What's left is a final group led by Sam Soverel with a hair over 4 million chips with the blind levels approaching 25K50K/50K. Behind him in the quest for $1.25M is Joao Simao, John Riordan, Jouhkimainen, and Artur Martirosian.
Let's take a look at the final five:
Soverel turns on the jets
Sam Soverel – 4,035,000 (81 BBs)
Sam Soverel- Career earnings: $27,051,755
- 2025 PGT Points: 2,257 (3rd)
Soverel finished fourth just last week in the $25,000 PLO Championship to wrap up the PGT PLO Series II, his fourth cash of that series and second final table. It's been a banner year for the three-time bracelet winner, who added another the third in the $10K Six-Max Championship this summer. Soverel doesn't play much outside of Vegas, but he's a regular crusher in the PokerGO Studio. His 22 cashes and three tour wins have him just behind Chino Rheem for second on the PGT Leaderboard while both chase Alex Foxen for first.
Joao Simao — 3,245,000 (65 BBs)
Joao Simao- Career earnings: Unknown (many millions)
- 2025 PGT Points: 1,233 (16th)
Simao is always in the mix in PLO events. The Brazilian finished third in the $25K Championship at the end of the PGT PLO Series II, his third cash of that series. Add that to three cashes in the first edition of the PLO Series in March and 13 others throughout the year on tour and Simao is right in the mix for the PGT Championship at the end of the year. He will return will the second-best chip stack after a brief appearance at the top of the counts in the later stages of Day 2.
John Riordan — 2,085,000 (42 BBs)
John Riordan- Career earnings: $5,097,205
- 2025 PGT Points: 1,149 (28th)
Riordan has 27 cashes on tour this year, good enough to keep him inside the top-40 bubble for the season-ending PGT Championship. He cashed five times in the PLO Series II last week, including one runner-up finish for $103K. Another Vegas regular, you'll rarely find him outside of Nevada, but he has been stacking up points at the PokerGO Studio all season long. The top five finish in the $100K will help him, but Riordan probably wants a few more scores before the end of the year to lock up a good spot in the finale.
Joni Jouhkimainen — 890,000 (18 BBs)
Joni Jouhkimainen- Career earnings: $12,146,920
- 2025 PGT points: 397 (143rd)
Jouhkimainen loves a big buy-in PLO tournament, and he's been shipping big scores all year long in them. The native Finnish pro finished third in one of the $15Kevents in the PLO Series II, grabbing $161K and a handful of PGT points in the process. He has a long way to go to crack the top 40, but the bubble is sitting at around 1,000 PGT points right now so it's not totally out of the question. Jouhkimainen has been all over the world this year, including a $1.3 million PLO win at Triton Jeju, but he could be setting up for a final sprint in Las Vegas.
Artur Martirosian — 765,000 (15 BBs)
Artur Martirosian- Career earnings: $28,917,591
- 2025 PGT points: 358 (157th)
Martirosian is another high-stakes pro that hasn't put his full focus on the PokerGO Tour, but whenever he shows up he is trouble for the Vegas regulars. The Russian has been on a tear throughout 2025, with five final table finishes at Triton Jeju in September and several others throughout the world. His WSOP bracelet in the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship was probably a career highlight, but Martirosian has three seven-figure scores in 2025, including a $2.6M win in the $100K Main Event at Triton Jeju in March.
Players will return for Day 3 on Wednesday at 1pm Vegas time for a livestream that will kick off on PokerGO at 2pm with a security delay.
Images courtesy of Antonio Abrego/PokerGO.
Data provided by The Hendon Mob.
