Joao Simao ran red hot, three times sucking out with his tournament life on the line, to defeat PokerStars ambassador Jason Koon in a marathon, back-and-forth heads-up match for the ages to win the $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl on Monday for $1,100,000.
Although he didn't come out victorious, Koon became just the third player ever to reach $70 million in live tournament cashes. The heads-up battle brought about some epic hands between two of poker's biggest stars. In the end, it was Simao who rallied twice from massive deficits, winning one of the most epic heads-up matches in recent memory, to conquer the 23-player no-limit hold'em tournament at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas.