A round-up of some serious scores at both the Asian Championship of Poker in Macau and the PokerStars Festival in Sochi including more German success and a new record for a member of PokerStars Team Pro.

Watching a German poker player say ‘cheese’ at the end of a Super High Roller event is as common as finding jars of screws and nails in a ‘real man’s’ garage. So, it should come as no surprise to learn that Dietrich Fast took down the HK$800,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller at the 2017 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP).

The big buy-in event held at the PokerStars LIVE City of Dreams, Macau, attracted 79 entrants (57 unique, 22 re-entries) and created a total prize pool of HK$60,690,960 ($7.8m).

Fast arrived at the final table third in chips behind the Global Poker Index (GPI) World #1, Bryn Kenney, and the chip leader Timothy Adams, but managed to grind out a significant chip lead when heads-up against the High Roller kingpin Steve O’Dwyer.