Martin Kabrhel has been quite the closer in 2025. The fast-talking Czech player has made eight final tables so far this year and secured the title four times along the way.
His latest triumph saw him mount a massive heads-up comeback, overcoming a 14:1 chip deficit to take down the Brazilian Series of Poker Super High Roller Series $30,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em event.
Kabrhel took home $422,000 as the champion, growing his career earnings to nearly $16.3 million in the process. More than $3.3 million of that has been earned across his 29 cashes to date in 2025. He had kicked off his year strong with a victory in a €15,000 pot-limit Omaha event for $149,520. He then added two World Series of Poker bracelets to grow his collection to five. He took down the mini main event in July for $843,140 and then won the €10,000 pot-limit Omaha mystery bounty event at the WSOP Europe for another $220,545.
This latest score came with 420 Card Player Player of the Year points. Kabrhel’s total of 5,452 is currently enough to place him in 19th on the 2025 POY leaderboard presented by CoinPoker.
Just won the 30k Super High Roller at @BSOPoficial 🌞
The rail created an amazing atmosphere and the 🦛 power turned the heads-up in his favor.
You can watch the replay on the BSOP YouTube channel with commentary by the one and only @MariaHo.
And the High Roller Series… pic.twitter.com/gfDJW8ob4u
— Martin Kabrhel (@martinkabrhell) November 19, 2025
Comeback Kabrhel
This event drew a field of 44 entries to build a prize pool of $1,320,000. Only the top eight cashed, with notables like bracelet winners Andre Akkari (4th – $142,000) and Rodrigo Seiji (3rd – $186,000) among those to make the money.
Ottomar Ladva busted Seiji in third to take roughly a 3:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Kabrhel. The early action largely went the way of the Estonian. He won a big pot with trip queens, forcing a fold on the river when his Kabrhel bricked his flush draw. That saw Ladva chip up to 10 million while Kabrhel slid to 725,000, making for a nearly 14:1 chip disparity.
The momentum soon shifted in Kabrhel’s favor, though. He doubled up with K-7 besting 10-5 suited to get back over ten big blinds. He chipped up further before finding K♠K♣ in the big blind after Ladva shoved from the button with A♥4♦. Kabrhel flopped top set and held from there to close the gap considerably.
Soon after that, he had worked his way into the lead. Then he began to pull away. Ladva was down to below 10 big blinds by the time the final hand was dealt. Kabrhel shoved with 3♥3♦ and Ladva called off his remaining stack from the big blind with Q♣7♥. The board came down A♣10♣6♦4♣4♦ to lock up the pot and the title for Kabhrel.
Ladva earned $292,000 as the runner-up, the third-largest recorded score of his career. He now boasts more than $3.6 million in lifetime cashes.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Payout | POY Points |
| 1 | Martin Kabrhel | $422,000 | 420 |
| 2 | Ottomar Ladva | $292,000 | 350 |
| 3 | Rodrigo Seiji | $186,000 | 280 |
| 4 | Andre Akkari | $142,000 | 210 |
| 5 | Thiago Macedo | $111,860 | 175 |
| 6 | Rafael Moraes | $86,800 | 140 |
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