The Super High-Roller Bowl China was a big deal, Phil Ivey came out to play, Fedor Holz blew through USD$1.8 million in rebuys before bombing out, and the big heads up clash was between the titanic Patrik Antonius and Justin Bonomo, and these two guys ended the day with HK$ 37,830,000 and HK$ 24,735,000 in cash respectively. How they handled their windfall was rather different.
Bonomo went with a nice crisp five foot long cheque, Antonius decided on something a little more balla for his second place money: cold hard cash.
Antonius could perhaps have requested a currency exchange to a more manageable stack of hundred dollar bills, but since he was apparently intent on filling a Scrooge McDuck vault – or at least a bathtub – with paper currency, he had the casino crack open their cash bucket and scoop him out some bricks.
Either way, we now know what HK$24,735,000 looks like, and the expression a person pulls when asked to count that much out by hand for someone showing off for their Instagram followers.