WCOOP-14-H: $10,300 NLHE High Roller Kicks Off at 5:05 p.m. GMT
The $100 million guaranteed World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) progressed to it's third day at PokerStars.
Some of the biggest names in poker will be in action today as the WCOOP-14-H: $10,300 NLHE [8-Max, High Roller] features the largest buy-in thus far in the festival.
The two-day event guarantees at least a $1 million prize and comes on the heads of another big buy-in event just completing with Brazil's Pedro "pvigar" Garagnani defeating Peru's Diego "Die Ventura" Ventura heads-up in the WCOOP-04-H: $5,200 NLHE High Roller for $195,690.
The High Roller is a deep-stacked affair with all players beginning with 250,000 in chips. The blinds will increase every 15 minutes during the first four levels before the action becomes deeper with 20-minute blind levels the rest of the way on Day 1. Any player can re-enter two times during the late registration period which last is available for the first 5 hours of play.
Day 1 of this event will play down until the action is down to just a final table of nine players. Those advancing to the final table will then resume their battle until a winner is declared on Wednesday, Aug 25 at 5:05 GMT.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be bringing all of the updates throughout this event so stay tuned.