R25K High Roller Update: Ray takes the chip lead
African Ace Poker Desk · 2026-07-31
After his big bluff against Marko Nortje in the last hand before the supper break, Ray Adam is the new chip leader.
We enter the late session on Day 3 with six players remaining. Blinds will resume on 80000-160000-160000.
There 23,050,000 chips are in play, an average stack of 3,842,000.
Ray Adam leads on 9,645,000, 80 big blinds deep, 2.5 times the average.
Max Deveson is next on 5,235,000.
What The Counts Mean
Only one player returns with 50 big blinds or more. Ray is expected to use his aggression with this pole position.
The top three hold 85% of the chips in play, so the field is top heavy.
Only 3 of the 6 sit at or above the 3,842,000 average, which will put plenty of pressure on the bottom three stacks.
Chip Counts
| # | Player | Chips | Big Blinds | | ---: | :--- | ---: | ---: | | 1 | Ray Adam | 9,645,000 | 80 | | 2 | Max Deveson | 5,235,000 | 44 | | 3 | Marko Nortje | 4,680,000 | 39 | | 4 | Rudolf Fourie | 1,495,000 | 12 | | 5 | Cliton Taliwanth | 1,220,000 | 10 | | 6 | Rajeev Poonhath | 775,000 | 6 |