For most of poker’s weekend warriors, winning the buy-in to the World Series of Poker $250,000 Super High Roller would be one of the best results of their careers.
For example, the min-cash worth $516,393 is roughly equivalent to winning the $500 Colossus. Thus, the tournament features many of the games best with tens of millions in combined tournament earnings.
The event drew 63 entries and included names like Phil Ivey, Adrian Mateos and Jason Koon. The field was full of monsters of live and online poker. However, social media was buzzing after watching David Peters and Martin Kabrhel tangle on the stone bubble.
On Monday evening, Peters pulled off an incredibly high-level bluff to get Kabrhel to fold trip eights on the river. On the other hand, if Kabrhel called, he would’ve scored a huge double up and sent left Peters with just a couple of big blinds. In other words, Peters would’ve become the favorite to bust out on the bubble, letting everyone else take home at least $516,393.
Instead, he takes a middling stack into today’s final table. Kabrhel also made the final table, but is the second shortest stack with 12 big blinds.
Peters Pulls Off Rare River Check-Raise Bluff
With 11 players left in the tournament and 10 players finishing in the money, the feature table was playing six-handed. The blinds were 100,000-200,000 with a 200,000 big blind ante.
With an 8.4 million-chip stack, Kabrhel raised to 400,000 from under the gun with 10
8. Daniel Negreanu called from the cutoff with A
J and a 6.725 million-chip stack, and Peters defended his big blind with A
J
with just shy of 9 million.
The flop came 88J. Kabrhel continued for 200,000, and Negreanu called. Peters raised to 750,000, and Kabrhel three-bet to 1,450,000. Negreanu folded, and Peters called.
The turn brought the 3 and action went check-check.
The river was the 9 and Peters checked over to Kabrhel, who bet 2,000,000 into the 4,550,000-chip pot. After using two time extensions and nearly a third, Peters went all in for 6,575,000. Kabrhel folded.
You can watch the whole hand unfold in the video below:
SAY HIS NAME, MARTIN!!! pic.twitter.com/lZDBLays5w
— PokerGO (@PokerGO) June 17, 2025
