R25K High Roller: Steven Wylie takes the chip lead
African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-07-30
The R25K High Roller has grinded down to 24 players. We have a new chip leader in Steven Wylie.
Boasting a R3.06M prize pool, with R1M for first place, the R25K High Roller is catching plenty of attention.
Blinds are 10000-25000-25000.
There are 22,429,000 chips in play, an average stack of 897,000.
Steven Wylie leads on 2,315,000, 93 big blinds deep, over 2.5 times the average.
Ray Adam is next on 1,850,000.
What The Counts Mean
Six players return with 50 big blinds or more, deep enough to play post-flop rather than just shove.
The top three hold 27% of the chips in play, so the counts are still tightly packed.
10 of the 25 sit at or above the 897,000 average.
Chip Counts
| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Steven Wylie | 2,315,000 | 93 | | 2 | Ray Adam | 1,850,000 | 74 | | 3 | Marko Nortje | 1,800,000 | 72 | | 4 | Maneesh Singh | 1,685,000 | 67 | | 5 | Max Deveson | 1,640,000 | 66 | | 6 | Jehan Richards | 1,300,000 | 52 | | 7 | Imran Bohjani | 1,195,000 | 48 | | 8 | Lambo | 1,150,000 | 46 | | 9 | Chris Gower | 1,125,000 | 45 | | 10 | Patrice AH Nien | 1,050,000 | 42 | | 11 | Muaaz Gani | 769,000 | 31 | | 12 | Craig Hartland | 745,000 | 30 | | 13 | Gavin Sardini | 720,000 | 29 | | 14 | JP Okes | 700,000 | 28 | | 15 | Rajeev Poohath | 645,000 | 26 | | 16 | Rudolf Fourie | 535,000 | 21 | | 17 | Cliton Taliwanth | 525,000 | 21 | | 18 | Anonymous 6 | 510,000 | 20 | | 19 | Mystery Player | 420,000 | 17 | | 20 | Steven Radloff | 410,000 | 16 | | 21 | Ruben Moodley | 400,000 | 16 | | 22 | Nick Ioannou | 375,000 | 15 | | 23 | Simon Solomon | 225,000 | 9 | | 24 | Jaime Viela | 50,000 | 2 |