$300,000 Buy-In, 48 Players, and a $14.4 Million Prize Pool; Welcome to the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl!
Welcome to the ARIA Resort & Casino for the opening day of the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl! An action-packed summer of poker in Las Vegas is about to kick off with the Super High Roller Bowl often regarded as the starting point of what can be a heart-breaking or dream-delivering two months of poker.
Easily one of the most anticipated event so the year sees the Super High Roller Bowl return to the ARIA Resort & Casino for the fourth time. However, this year things will be slightly different because of instead of being held in the convention center, the Super High Roller Bowl will be played in the brand new PokerGO studio built specifically for events such as this.
This year will see a capped field size of 48 players fighting over the $14.4 million prize pool that will have $5 million reserved for whoever can capture one of the toughest tournaments of the year, while $3 million will be a fair prize for the runner-up. The other paid places will receive $2.1 million for third, $1.6 million for fourth, $1.2 million for fifth, $900,000 for sixth, and $600,000 for seventh as the final table of seven will all be in the money.
That top prize has seen three players vault up poker’s all-time money list after they claimed the Super High Roller Bowl in their respected year. In 2017, Christoph Vogelsang defeated a 56-player field to capture the $6 million first prize, while in 2016 Rainer Kempe topped a 49-player field to earn the $5 million first prize. In it’s inaugural running in 2015, Brian Rast topped a field of 43 entries to take home the $7,525,000 first-place prize in an event that featured a $500,000 buy-in.
Here are the players for the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl
| Seat | Table 1 | Table 2 | Table 3 | Table 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom Marchese | Andrew Lichtenberger | Phil Ivey | Christian Christner |
| 2 | Matt Hyman | Cary Katz | Seth Davies | Brandon Adams |
| 3 | Christoph Vogelsang | Antonio Esfandiari | Nick Petrangelo | Stephen Chidwick |
| 4 | Sam Soverel | Mikita Badziakouski | David Peters | Jake Schindler |
| 5 | Sergio Aido | Markus Durnegger | Dan Smith | John Andress |
| 6 | Arne Ruge | Igor Kurganov | Isaac Haxton | Ben Tollerene |
| Table 5 | Table 6 | Table 7 | Table 8 | |
| 1 | Timofey Kuznetsov | Kathy Lehne | Steffen Sontheimer | Daniel Negreanu |
| 2 | Jason Koon | Dennis Blieden | Phil Hellmuth | Doug Polk |
| 3 | Justin Bonomo | Brian Rast | Dan Shak | Talal Shakerchi |
| 4 | Byron Kaverman | Bryn Kenney | Koray Aldemir | Fedor Holz |
| 5 | Adrian Mateos | Erik Seidel | Bill Perkins | Andreas Eiler |
| 6 | Kahle Burns | Larry Greenberg | Keith Tilston | Rainer Kempe |
The structure for the tournament will see players start with 300,000 in chips and play 90-minute levels that feature a big blind ante structure (where the big blind is posted before the ante). Players will play 7 levels on Day 1 and 2 before playing down to the final six players on Day 3. The final day of play will see the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl winner crowned.
The cards are expected to be in the air at 12:00 p.m. (PDT) with the PokerNews Live Reporting Team providing continuous live updates of all the Super High Roller Bowl action live from the ARIA Resort & Casino and the PokerGO Studio.
Stay tuned right here to PokerNews.com as we write the path of the next Super High Roller Bowl Champion, as they navigate one of the toughest tournament fields of the year!