It’s usually a rare occasion when a player who has battled up the levels in poker wins a Super High Roller Bowl. So, when Timothy Adams scaled that peak in early February this year, winning the Super High Roller Bowl Australia for $1,446,112, he could have been forgiven for thinking that sort of result might not happen again for a very long time.

Adams would have been as utterly wrong as he could be if he thought that, as he proved by winning the very next Super High Roller Bowl to be held, this time in Sochi, for a massive $3.6 million.

With a 40-player field, Adams took down the record-breaking title after a heads-up victory against German crusher Christoph Vogelsang, who himself would have become a two-time champion if he’d won the final duel. Before that, however, there was a money bubble to burst, as although six players would be paid, the final day began with seven still in the hunt.

The bubble boy would turn out to be British tournament king Stephen Chidwick, who busted when Vogelsang busted him, and it was the German who also eliminated Malaysian player Ivan Leow in sixth place for $600,000.