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Today sees the start of Event #38: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas.
This three-day event gets underway at 12 p.m. local time, with late registration open for 12 levels, which comes after the second level of Day 2. There will be 15-minute breaks every two levels, and this tournament is played with a 30-second shot clock. Each player is permitted one reentry.
The starting stack is 600,000 chips, with the plan for Day 1 to play ten 60-minute levels. For the surviving players and late entrants, Day 2 resumes at 12 p.m. on Thursday and concludes after ten more levels have been completed. Day 3 is when a winner will be crowned.
Last summer, Chris Hunichen topped a star-studded final table and Jeremy Ausmus in heads-up play to capture his first bracelet and $2,838,389. One hundred and twelve entrants were recorded, creating the massive $10,932,750 prize pool. Can those figures be surpassed this time around?
"No one’s ever due in poker, but I feel like I was due," Hunichen told PokerNews in a winner's interview. "And I’ve been in this position a couple of times, got unlucky, a couple of seconds. It was my time.”
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 112 | Chris Hunichen | United States | $2,838,389 |
| 2023 | 93 | [Removed:564] | Netherlands | $2,576,729 |
| 2022 | 62 | Aleksejs Ponakovs | Latvia | $1,897,363 |
| 2021 | 64 | Michael Addamo | Australia | $1,958,569 |
| 2019 | 99 | Keith Tilston | United States | $2,792,406 |
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