Steve O’Dwyer has beaten Roger Sippl, in heads-up action, to win the record breaking $1.8m first prize at the $100,000 Super High Roller at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

When it comes to winning Heads-Up Limit Hold’em games then a computer program called Cepheus is the undisputed master, yet when it comes to winning $1.8m first prizes there is nobody better than Steve O’Dwyer.

Steve O’Dwyer was an absolute revelation in 2013. He won over $2.4m in live tournament earnings, including victory at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monte Carlo, for his first-ever seven figure score.

So when 2014 seemed to be running towards his lowest annual haul since he started playing the game, he could be forgiven for taking his foot off the gas a little. Then – BOOM! O’Dwyer took a trip to Macau, threw HK$500,000 into the ring and walked away with the title of the APPT Asia Championship Super High Roller winner and $1.8m in prize money.

Today, O’Dwyer becomes the only player in history to have consecutive $1.8m wins on his Hendon Mob profile, after winning the $100,000 Super High Roller at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) just two months later.

The event didn’t just break all PCA records for a Super High Roller event, it broke the PokerStars record for any of their $100,000 buy-ins worldwide. 50 unique players, and 16 players mental, or rich enough, to re-enter, created a total prize pool of $6,402,000, with the winner getting their hands on $1,872,580, a $15k Steel and Diamond SLYDE watch, and the bragging rights belonging to the victor of the first major tournament of 2015.

Day 1 ended with Sam Greenwood in charge, and it was a rather expensive day for Dan Shak, Mike McDonald, Scott Seiver, Cary Katz and Daniel Colman (2 buy-ins) and Bill Perkins (3 buy-ins).