PokerStars Network: the story of the Sunday High Roller of the back-to-back by ‘Gasparotto10’, with the hands of all the final table eliminations

This week, PokerStars Poker – Sisal Poker’s Sunday High Roller recorded a true feat. As we saw in Tuesday’s report, the victory went to Gaspare ‘Gasparotto10’ Sposato, who won the high stakes tournament for the second Sunday in a row.

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The player from Elba thus achieved a prestigious back-to-back, the kind that only a few regulars can boast. Let’s immediately see how ‘Gasparotto10’ managed the repeat win, with the story of the PokerStars Network high stakes tournament accompanied by the hands of all the eliminations from the final table.

The Situation

This week’s Sunday High Roller Bounty Elite 8-max had 144 entries for a prize pool of €32,400, distributed between payouts and progressive bounties.

Among the 27 paid positions were Ivan ‘mrbluff234’ Gabrieli (27th), Valentina ‘Dirac84’ Galeandro (21st), Daniele ‘Canelupo96’ Venditti (16th), Stefano ‘ANTILIMP’ Fioravanti (13th), and Dario ‘dario6990’ Pieruzzini (12th).

The final table began with blinds at 2,000-4,000, with ‘M3ssiD10s’ as the chip leader and ‘SirDomsuo’ in pursuit, as shown in the table reporting positions and stacks at the first hand of the final table.

‘Carbonaus’ Ninth

After the first level-up, at blinds of 2,500-5,000, ‘Carbonaus’ pushed just over 3x from the big blind with 5 A on an x2 open from ‘M3ssiD10s’ on the button. ‘M3ssiD10s’ called for odds and showed up at showdown with 7 Q .

The flop 4 Q K 6 7 eliminated ‘Carbonaus’ and gave ‘M3ssiD10s’ a progressive bounty of €112.50.

‘x-muccio-x’ Eighth

After another level-up, at blinds of 3,000-6,000, ‘SirDomSuo’ opened x2 with 9 A from mp. Immediately to his left, ‘realaddicted66’ pushed 9,840 with Q 7 . From the cutoff, ‘BlackDomo97’ 3-bet K A to 66,000. On the small blind, ‘x-muccio-x’ cold 4-bet pushed 52,000 with 10 A . On the big blind, ‘Gasparotto10’ isolated by pushing 32x. ‘BlackDomo97’ called, and it was a four-way showdown.

The board 6 3 5 *Q 5 gave ‘realaddicted66’ a quadruple-up. ‘Gasparotto10’ won the two side pots and also the progressive bounty of €297.07 from ‘x-muccio-x’, becoming the chip leader with a stack of 415,470. ‘BlackDomo97’ dropped to 155,472 chips. Here is the replay of the heated hand.

‘Gasparotto10’ Double Player Out

At blinds of 3,500-7,000, ‘realaddicted66′ open-pushed 40,575 from hijack. After the opponents’ folds, ‘Gasparotto10’ isolated with a push from the small blind with 4 J , evidently for the progressive bounty, and found a re-push from ‘BARBANA’ from the big blind for 19x with Q A .

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The board 9 8 7 10 8 allowed ‘Gasparotto10’ to achieve a double elimination, collecting a progressive bounty of €239.05 and another of €344.52. Here is the replay of the hand:

‘pippo8823’ Fifth

Still at blinds of 3,500-7,000, ‘Gasparotto10’ open-pushed 10 Q from the button. On the small blind, ‘pippo8823’ called for 126,634 with J A .

The board 7 K Q 2 5 allowed Sposato to claim another victim for a progressive bounty of €363.86.

‘SirDomsuo’ Fourth

With a commanding chip lead, holding almost one million chips while the combined stacks of his opponents did not reach half a million, ‘Gasparotto10’ open-pushed 3 K from UTG, finding a call from ‘SirDomSuo’ for almost 20x from the button with Q Q .

The board 8 8 5 * J K gave ‘Gasparotto10’ a progressive bounty of €434.17 and brought the Sunday High Roller into the podium zone.

‘BlackDomo97’ Third

After the level-up, at blinds of 4,000-8,000, ‘Gasparotto10’ opened x2.1 with A K from the button. On the small blind, ‘BlackDomo97’ 3-bet more than half his stack with K 9 and then called after the push from the original raiser.

The board 7 A Q 10 9 brought the Islander a progressive bounty of €196.87.

The Final Showdown

The heads-up match began with ‘Gasparotto10’ at 1.24 million chips against ‘M3ssiD10s’ at 195,628. The last hand was not long in coming. On ‘Gasparotto10’s open-push from the small blind with 5 7 , ‘MessiD10s’ called 15x from the big blind with 6 A .

The board 7 Q 10 9 9 ended the tournament and allowed ‘Gasparotto10’ to collect the last substantial progressive bounties remaining in play and achieve the incredible back-to-back. Here is the replay of the hand that concluded the Sunday High Roller:

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