Mystery Player leads the High Roller pack

African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-09-10

R18k High Roller

16 players remain. Mystery Player 1 leads on 1,422,000, average stack 646,000.

16 players remain in contention for the High Roller title, with R400,000 up top for first, action will only continue to heat up from here.

10,343,000 chips are in play, an average stack of 646,000.

Mystery Player 1 leads on 1,422,000, 89 big blinds deep, 2.2 times the average.

Muaaz Gani is next on 1,065,000.

Blinds 8,000/16,000, level 14.

What The Counts Mean

6 return with 50 big blinds or more, deep enough to play post-flop rather than just shove.

The top three hold 34% of the chips in play, so the counts are still tightly packed.

8 of the 16 sit at or above the 646,000 average.

Chip Counts

| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Mystery Player 1 | 1,422,000 | 89 | | 2 | Muaaz Gani | 1,065,000 | 67 | | 3 | AH | 1,014,000 | 63 | | 4 | Stephen Courtney | 975,000 | 61 | | 5 | Rudolf Fourie | 831,000 | 52 | | 6 | Imran Bhojani | 827,000 | 52 | | 7 | Ricky Toker | 708,000 | 44 | | 8 | Max Deveson | 700,000 | 44 | | 9 | Marc Joseph | 620,000 | 39 | | 10 | Giovanni Zanette | 478,000 | 30 | | 11 | Patmasleen Naicker | 421,000 | 26 | | 12 | Alvin Pillay | 375,000 | 23 | | 13 | Jaime Vilela | 332,000 | 21 | | 14 | Hennie Appel | 226,000 | 14 | | 15 | Benjamin “Guppie” Lingenfelder | 198,000 | 12 | | 16 | Jono Hyman | 151,000 | 9 |