Event #26: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed Will Be Starting Soon

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The action will soon be starting in Event #26: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas. This three-day event will begin at 12 p.m. with 60-minute levels and 150,000 starting stacks. Play will continue for eight blind levels.

Players will get a 15-minute break every two blind levels, and no dinner break is scheduled for Day 1.

Day 2 will then resume on June 10 at 12 p.m. Levels will be 60 minutes on Day 2 and play will continue for another 10 levels, with a 60-minute dinner break slated for after Level 14 (approximately 6:30 p.m.). The Day 3 restart on June 11 has a TBD start time, and will play down to the final table.

Isaac Haxton is the defending champ. The poker legend beat out 301 entrants in 2023 to win $1,698,215 and his first bracelet.

"I've finished second and third many times for my biggest cashes so it's nice to finally win. A three hundred-player field for a $25k, yeah I guess it's gotta be up there with one of my biggest accomplishments," Haxton said after winning.

Year	Entries	Winner	Country	Payout
2023	301	Isaac Haxton	United States	$1,698,215
2022	251	Chad Eveslage	United States	$1,415,610
2021	139	Tyler Cornell	United States	$833,289

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