2017 Super High Roller Bowl

$300,000 Super High Roller Bowl
Day: 1
Event Info

2017 Super High Roller Bowl

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
107
Prize
$6,000,000
Event Info
Buy-in
$300,000
Prize Pool
$16,800,000
Entries
56
Level Info
Level
27
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
100,000

$16.8 Million Prize Pool, 56 Players, and a $300,000 Buy-In; Welcome to the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl!

Kevin Hart will be one of the 56 Super High Roller Bowl players!
Kevin Hart will be one of the 56 Super High Roller Bowl players!

Welcome to the ARIA Resort & Casino for the opening day of the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl! Summer may not officially begin for a few more weeks here in the Northern Hemisphere, but in the poker world, the Super High Roller Bowl kicks off the action-packed summer of poker right here in Las Vegas.

One of the most anticipated events of the year sees the Super High Roller Bowl grace the floor of the ARIA Resort & Casino for the third time. This year the capped field size was expanded to 56 following the overwhelming interest of people wanting to be involved in one of the marquee events of the next couple of months.

“These additions will give more players a chance to play in the best event of the year and also play for an even bigger prize pool," said ARIA’s Director of Poker Operations Sean McCormack to Poker Central. "Bigger is always better and the increase in prize pool and first-place payout, along with the enormous prestige of the Super High Roller Bowl, will be welcomed by the players.”

You can’t talk about the 56 players without first discussing the previous champions in Brian Rast and Rainer Kempe. In 2015, Rast topped a field of 43 entries to capture the $7,525,000 first-place prize in an event that featured a $500,000 buy-in once he defeated Scott Seiver for the title. In 2016, it would be Kempe topping the 49-player field to earn the $5,000,000 first-prize after defeating fellow German Fedor Holz heads-up.

These players are just a few of the many taking a seat today. Two-time final table member Erik Seidel will be hoping to break through with a victory in his third shot, while other final tablists such as Connor Drinan, David Peters, Thomas Marchese, Phil Hellmuth, and Bryn Kenney will all be looking to repeat their past performances. Past results may be littered with American flags, but Europeans such as Christoph Vogelsang, Dominik Nitsche, Igor Kurganov, and Tony G will be looking to alter that, while businessmen Cary Katz, Dan Shak, David Einhorn, Bill Klein, and John Morgan will be hoping to show these poker pros that they mean business on the felt too.

One of the new entrants for 2017, and easily one of the most famous people to ever play a poker tournament is Kevin Hart. Hart has taken a seat at two of the biggest high roller events in the world this year with appearances in the $100,000 Super High Roller at PokerStars Championship Bahamas in January, and most recently at the €100,000 Super Higher Roller at the PokerStars Championship in Monte Carlo in April. Hart will now turn his attention to his biggest recorded tournament buy-in to date with the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl.

Hart is one of the most successful comedians, writers, producers, and movie stars of our generation. He’s now looking to add poker player to that list. Actually, he’s looking to add Super High Roller Bowl Champion to that list. And with a combined 86 million followers across Twitter and Instagram, Hart will be bringing a whole lot of attention to not only this event, but to the game of poker as a whole.

The 2017 Super High Roller Bowl will feature a jaw-dropping $16,800,000 prize pool that will ensure the final seven players heading home with some cash. $6 million is reserved for the eventual winner while $3.6 million will be a fair prize for the runner-up. The other paid places will receive $2.4 million for third, $1.8 million for fourth, $1.4 million for fifth, $1 million for sixth, and $600,000 for seventh.

The cards are expected to be in the air at 1:00 p.m. (PST) with the PokerNews Live Reporting Team providing continuous live updates of all the Super High Roller Bowl action live from the ARIA Resort & Casino. 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 ever assembled!

Starting Table and Seat Draw

TableSeatPlayerCountry
11Dan ShakUSA
 2Koray AldemirGermany
 3David EinhornUSA
 4Ben SulskyUSA
 5John JuandaIndonesia
 6Fedor HolzGermany
 7Isaac HaxtonUSA
    
21Tony GuogaLithuania
 2Jason LesUSA
 3Sam SoverelUSA
 4Pratyush BuddigaUSA
 5Daniel NegreanuCanada
 6Jason MercierUSA
 7Tom MarcheseUSA
    
31Jason KoonUSA
 2Antonio EsfandiariUSA
 3Stefan SchillhabelGermany
 4Scott SeiverUSA
 5Brian RastUSA
 6Jake SchindlerUSA
 7Ankush MandaviaUSA
    
41Bill PerkinsUSA
 2Rainer KempeGermany
 3G.I.Argentina
 4Dan SmithUSA
 5Andrew RoblUSA
 6Andrew LichtenbergerUSA
 7Matt BerkeyUSA
    
51Nick PetrangeloUSA
 2Dominik NitscheGermany
 3Dan ColmanUSA
 4Ben LambUSA
 5Bill KleinUSA
 6Brandon StevenUSA
 7Talal ShakerchiUK
    
61Sean WinterUSA
 2Connor DrinanUSA
 3Dan PreperUSA
 4Steffen SontheimerGermany
 5Leon TsoukernikCzech Republic
 6Erik SeidelUSA
 7Zachary HymanUSA
    
71Byron KavermanUSA
 2Doug PolkUSA
 3Igor KurganovRussia
 4David PetersUSA
 5Christian ChristnerGermany
 6Lauren RobertsUSA
 7Christoph VogelsangGermany
    
81Haralabos VoulgarisCanada
 2Phil HellmuthUSA
 3Justin BonomoUSA
 4Kevin HartUSA
 5Bryn KenneyUSA
 6Ben TollereneUSA
 7Cary KatzUSA

Tags: Brian RastKevin HartRainer KempeSean McCormack