Day 1 of Event #83: $100,000 No-Limit High Roller Gets Underway at 3 p.m.
Welcome to Day 1 of Event #83: $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em High Roller.
Last year, Nick Petrangelo won the corresponding event, which took place fifth on the schedule. In doing so, Petrangelo outlasted 105 competitors to take home the first-place prize of $2,910,227, defeating Elio Fox heads-up to claim the title while Fox took home $1,798,658 for his second-place finish.
Aymon Hata (3rd place - $1,247,230), Andreas Eiler (4th place - $886,793), Bryn Kenney ($646,927), Stephen Chidwick ($484,551), Jason Koon ($372,894), and Adrian Mateos ($295,066) were the other big names that made the final table.
Some other champions who took a shot at this event included Phil Ivey, Fedor Holz, Jason Mercier, and Ryan Riess, so we can expect to see some stellar names in this year's line-up, with an attractive prize-pool to go with the obvious bragging rights of winning an event of such magnitude.
This is a three-day event and cards will be in the air at 3 p.m. local time with blinds of 1,000/1,000 and a 1,000 ante. Players will start with 600,000 in chips and levels will be of 40 minutes each. There will be a 15-minute break every three levels and a 60-minute dinner break at the completion of Level 6, at approximately 7:15 p.m. Late registration will be available till the start of Day 2.
Day 1 will play twelve levels, while on Day 2 play will resume at 1 p.m. and will conclude once six players remain, with the final table returning on Saturday, July 13, at noon PDT, with the final denouement being live-streamed on a one-hour delay.
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