It's Time for the Biggest Ever Buy-In Online Poker Tournament: the WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller
Today, September 11, 2016, will go down in the online poker history books, if there were such a thing. At 12:30 Eastern U.S. Time (18:30 Central European Time, 6 hours and 30 minutes from posting this entry), the biggest ever buy-in tournament commences on PokerStars. Players are going to buy in for a whopping $102,000 for the 8-Max Super High Roller, event number 28 on the World Championship of Online Poker schedule. With a guaranteed $2,000,000 prize pool, it's the second biggest event on the schedule, only outdone by the Main Event.
Last year, the Super High Roller format debuted online as part of WCOOP 2015 with a $51,000 buy-in event. Ben "Ben86" Tollerene took down the tournament, beating a field of 46 to walk away a $616,518.34 winner after striking a deal with Jose "Cejakas14" Angel Latorre (second, $560,412.13) and Nikita "fish2013" Bodyakovskiy (third, $594,069.53).
PokerNews.com will provide you with live updates so you can keep track of who's winning and who's losing if you're not able to follow along with the action in the PokerStars client or live stream. We'll bring you all the big hands, all the bad beats and all the drama of this phenomenal event!