R18k High Roller Update: Max leads on the bubble

African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-09-10

R18k High Roller

With 6 remaining and 5 paid, Max Deveson runs the High Roller final table with the big stack.

Play is on the bubble: 6 left, 5 paid, one more out before the money.

There are 10.7M chips in play, an average stack of 1,795,000.

Max Deveson leads with 4,37M in chips, which is 73 big blinds deep and 2.4 times the average. A very comfortable position as ICM pressure gets heavier.

Rudolf Fourie is next on 2.25M, while Muaaz Gani doubled up to third in chips with 1.97M.

Players are on Level 20, blinds are 3000-6000-6000.

Chip Counts

| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Max Deveson | 4,370,000 | 73 | | 2 | Rudolf Fourie | 2,250,000 | 38 | | 3 | Muaaz Gani | 1,970,000 | 33 | | 4 | Marc Joseph | 1,180,000 | 20 | | 5 | AH | 700,000 | 12 | | 6 | Stephen Courtney | 300,000 | 5 |