Millionaires Made at the Bellagio in 100K Super High Roller, Dan Smith Second Only to Ivey in 2014

This weekend, while @Phil Ivey was battling for his 10th bracelet, the ladies were flocking into the Rio for the WSOP Ladies Championship, and the Monster Stack was breaking attendance records, a few dozen high rollers quietly slipped off to the @Bellagio for a $100,000 buy-in event. The top four finishers in the #SuperHighRoller made a chop deal and ended up scoring their biggest career wins:

It was meant to be a 10k event, but was changed to a $100,000 buy-in as there appeared to be greater interest in  a super high roller. Indeed, 66 players entered and 21 re-entered so the resulting prizepool soared to $8,613,000. Among those who paid up but failed to get into the paid places were @Phil Hellmuth and @Phil Galfond, as well as some of the top German players who are in Vegas for the WSOP (and notably The Big One for One Drop) - @Philipp Gruissem and @Fabian Quoss.

Chopping was reportedly first discussed when the field was down to five but @Douglas Polk backed out and ironically ended up the next one to leave the final  table, for $602,910. The deal was quickly worked out among the remaining four: @Jason Somerville @Tom Marchese @Jason Mercier and @Dan Smith. With his $2,044,000 prize Dan Smith shot up to number 2 in the US 2014 earnings ranking, second only to Phil Ivey:

On Sunday Dan used one of his newly earned millions to enter The Big One for One Drop where he was eliminated at the end of Day 1, just like Jason Mercier... As Jason Somerville never entered, the only one of the Bellagio super highrollers still in the #OneDrop game is Doug Polk, who will start Day2 14th  in chips among the 31 survivors.