The third and final $25,750 buy-in no-limit hold’em event of the 2024 Super High Roller Bowl Series at Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino in Cyprus ended up with 41 total entries, resulting in a prize pool of $1,004,500.
After two days of high-stakes six-handed tournament action, Maher Nouira emerged victorious with the title and the top prize of $333,000.
This was the third-largest live payday yet for Maher Nouira, who has recorded four of his top-five paydays this year. His biggest score came with a fourth-place showing in the $100,000 buy-in event at Triton Montenegro, which earned him $933,000. He now has nearly $3.5 million in career cashes.
Nouira earned 420 Card Player Player of the Year points for this, his second title of the year. With 2,241 total points earned across six POY-qualified final tables, he is now tied with Raminder Singh for 104th place in the 2024 POY standings presented by Global Poker.
Maher Nouira earned his first 200 PokerGO Tour points of the year with this triumph, which were sufficient to move him into 219th place in the season-long PGT points race.
Nouira had plenty of stiff competition to contend with down the stretch, including Samuel Ju (6th – $65,000), two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Daniel Dvoress (5th – $87,500), Yulian Bogdanov (4th – $122,000), and Jamil Wakil (3rd – $166,000).
It came down to a heads-up clash between Nouira and current POY race leader Adrian Mateos for the title. The Spanish superstar entered the final showdown with 1,135,000 to Nouira’s 7,070,000. He managed to fight his way back to nearly even, only to run a failed bluff attempt against a straight to finish as the runner-up.
Mateos earned $231,000 and 350 POY points for his 14th final-table finish of 2024. With two titles and more than $8.8 million in to-date POY earnings, he remains the player to beat in the POY race. His 7,825 points give him a 605 point lead over second-ranked David Coleman in the standings.
Maher Nouira also secured 139 PGT points, enough to climb into 24th place on that high-stakes-centric leaderboard. He now has nearly $49.8 million in career cashes to his name.
Final table Results:
| Place | Player | Earnings | POY Points | PGT Points |
| 1 | Maher Nouira | $333,000 | 420 | 200 |
| 2 | Adrian Mateos | $231,000 | 350 | 139 |
| 3 | Jamil Wakil | $166,000 | 280 | 100 |
| 4 | Yulian Bogdanov | $122,000 | 210 | 73 |
| 5 | Daniel Dvoress | $87,500 | 175 | 53 |
| 6 | Samuel Ju | $65,000 | 140 | 39 |
