After toppling 57 opponents, Sam Trickett took down the second event of the partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Super High Roller Series which is taking place all this week in Sochi, Russia. Trickett, Britain’s second-most successful tournament player in history behind Stephen Chidwick put in a great display to beat a final table full of wizards and bank an impressive $435,000 to boot.

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It was the second-biggest biggest win so far on this weeks’ worth of huge Super High Roller events, with Trickett’s win for $435,000 coming on the back of Jiang Xia He’s win in the opening Short Deck event for $378,000 saw He beat WSOP Main Event champion John Cynn heads-up. In the third event of the series, Wai Leong Chan won against recent Global Poker Award winner Paul Phua to take home the $457,500 top prize.

Event #2 got headlines, though. Packed with top poker professionals, the bubble burst at the end of Day 1, with Aleksey Gortikov’s elimination setting the final nine in place to battle for the win.