Event 8: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em Commences Today at 1 P.M. PT
The 2022 WSOP at Bally's and Paris Las Vegas continues today with the kickoff of the always competitive Event 8: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em in the Paris Ballroom.
The exciting high roller events consistently attract a plethora of top-name professionals in the poker world. That promises to be the case today when the second high roller event on this year's schedule gets going this afternoon at 1 p.m. local time.
Last year, Tyler Cornell claimed his maiden gold bracelet, besting a field of 139 entrants and claiming the $833,289 up top.
2022 WSOP High Roller ($25,000+) No-Limit Hold’em Event Schedule
| Date | Event | Buy-in |
|---|---|---|
| Tue, May 31 | Event #2: High Roller Bounty | $100,000 |
| Thu, June 2 | Event #6: Heads Up Championship | $25,000 |
| Sat, June 4 | Event #8: High Roller 8-Handed | $25,000 |
| Mon, June 6 | Event #12: High Roller 8-Handed | $50,000 |
| Sun, June 19 | Event #42: High Roller | $100,000 |
| Thu, June 23 | Event #50: Super High Roller | $250,000 |
| Thu, July 14 | Event #83: High Roller | $50,000 |
The $25,000 buy-in will get players a starting stack of 150,000. Levels will be 60-minutes with 15-minute breaks taking place every two levels. Day 1 will feature eight levels of play, and registration will be open all the way until the beginning of Day 2 tomorrow, which is also scheduled for a 1 p.m. start.
There will undoubtedly be no shortage of action as the biggest names in the poker world collide in search of gold bracelet glory.
PokerNews will be here covering the entire event, so tune in for updates on all of the high roller action.
. Bill Klein checked to Thomas Boivin, the in-position player, who put out a bet of 6,000 into a pot of 16,000. 
fell and made the board even more connected and Klein didn't stop firing. He bet of 31,000 and after thinking for 30 seconds, Boivin let his cards go and Klein scooped the early pot.
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for the over-pair. Lamb mucked and Daniels raked the nice-sized Level 1 pot.
. About 32,000 was in the pot. 
flop. 
turn, Kornuth bet again, once more to the tune of 21,500. Farber thought for a bit and made the call to head to a river in a swelling pot. 
rolled off on the river. Chance Kornuth took a few seconds assembling his chips then slid all 67,500 he had left into the middle. 
for the drilled gutterball that made the nuts on the river. 
hit the turn and Dimov kept up the pressure with a bet of 41,000. Again, both other players made the call and the pot was growing into a big one. 
, completing the front door flush, and now Dimov checked. Guilbert also checked. Cheong thought about it, and decided to go all in for 105,000, barely covering Dimov. 
for a pair and missed flush draw. Dimov flipped 
and Negreanu rolled over 
