What happened
Brandon Wilson of Chicago won Super High Roller Bowl XI in Las Vegas on October 10, taking $1,125,000 and the championship ring. The $100,000 buy-in drew 28 entries, up from 23 in December 2025, for a $2,800,000 prize pool. Five places were paid.
Heads-up, Wilson held 4,740,000 chips to Nick Petrangelo's 3,660,000. On the last hand Wilson raised to 130,000 on the button with queen-ten of spades. Petrangelo three-bet to 500,000 with pocket sevens and Wilson called. The flop was ace of diamonds, queen of clubs, nine of spades, and the turn was the jack of clubs. The river was the eight of hearts, which gave Wilson a queen-high straight. Petrangelo moved all in for 1,325,000 and Wilson snap-called.
Petrangelo took $700,000. Alex Foxen finished third for $450,000, Jeremy Ausmus fourth for $310,000 and Adrian Mateos fifth for $215,000. Kristen Foxen went out in sixth on day 2, when her ace-eight lost to Wilson's pocket nines, one place short of the money.
Earlier on day 2, Alex Foxen's pocket tens lost a pot to Petrangelo's pocket sixes when the board brought the one six left in the deck for sixes full. The hand cost the Foxen household hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity, at least, by one estimate.
Why it matters
Twenty-eight entries built a $2,800,000 pool and five people got paid. The winner took about 40 percent of it.
Two members of one household played. One lost a pot to a one-outer, the other missed the money by a single place, and between them they cashed $450,000. Petrangelo's river shove into a board with a straight on it got a snap-call, which is the usual price of that shove.
