Santhosh Suvarna wins the Biggest Buy-in Event of the WSOP for $5,415,152

The largest buy-in event of the 2024 World Series of Poker is now in the books, and it’s Indian casino-owner Santhosh Suvarna who wound up on top of the $250,000 WSOP Super High Roller event.

Suvarna won $5,415,152 for being the last player standing. Seventy-five entries meant the top 12 were paid at least $506,757 and included the cream of the crop of the world’s super high rollers: Johnathan Jaffe, Phil Ivey, Adrian Mateos, Sean Winter, Jermey Ausmus, and Benjamin Tollerene, who finished second for $3,537,135.

Unlike Tollerene, who, as one of the world’s greatest high stakes online players and have seen millions and millions of hands, Suvarna is relatively new at poker.

“I’m feeling very happy,” Suvarna told the WSOP. “Every day, I’m learning. I’m doing very good.”

He sure as hell is.

It’s Suvarna’s second million-dollar-plus win after winning $1,772,000 for finishing third in The Triton Poker $137,500 Main Event in Monte Carlo in October.

Two weeks later, he won his first WSOP bracelet in the €50,000 High Roller event at the WSOP Europe games in Cyprus. That was good for $695,291.

And then in April, Suvarna won the largest pot on PokerGO’s High Stakes Poker. His better full house beat Andrew Robl‘s own house for a $992,000 pot.

And now a victory in the biggest buy-in event at this year’s WSOP, and the 43-year-old is really only getting started event though the win pushes his lifetime tourney cash total up over the $13 million mark.

Not bad considering he’s only really been at it since 2022.

Nik “Airball” Arcot, whose popularity has skyrocketed thanks to his play as a high roller on the Hustler Casino Live streams and elsewhere, was there cheering his friend on and had nothing but nice things to say about Suvarna.

“He’s just, like, the sweetest guy you can find,” Arcot told the WSOP. “He’s just always happy, always nice, always cheerful, always helpful.

It takes a lot of balls to just pony up to 50K or 100K etc and battle all the wizards. He’s got no fear, and he gives it his all. And I think it’s awesome. It’s great for poker. It’s great for everyone. And I’m really happy for him.”