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High Roller online tournaments don’t come much bigger than the $25,000-entry Super high Roller SCOOP Event #52(H) which ended last night. Steve O’Dwyer, popular poker professional and all-round entertaining guy in the poker world, took it down for $521,598, triumphing against overnight leader Andras Nemeth.

With 89 entries, the event had a massive $2.1 in the prizepool and saw 59 unique players add 30 re-entries into the prize fund. O’Dwyer, who has now won over $6.5 million online and over $30 million in live tournaments, in a high-profile winner of the SCOOP title and keeps PokerStars’ flagship online festival duking it out with GGPoker’s WSOP Super Circuit Series for bragging rights as the biggest poker tournament of all-time. Prizepools and time extensions aside, that may be proven in the final shakedown by how many players attend and it’s hard to look past ‘Stars for sheer numbers on that front.

The final day kicked off with just 10 players still involved. First to depart and miss out on the final table was Ben Sulsky, who moved all-in with nine-eight and was busted by O’Dwyer’s ace-seven. An eight on turn but a rivered ace was the cruel hope before despair that Sulsky cannot have enjoyed.