Super High Roller Bowl 2017

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The 2017 Super High Roller Bowl was the third edition of this poker tournament and was hosted by Poker Central . He was from May 28 to June 1, 2017 in the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas pitted and was with his buy-in of 300,000 US dollars , the most expensive poker tournament of the year 2017th

structure

Aria Resort & Casino (2013)

The tournament in the variant No-Limit Hold'em was played from May 28 to June 1 2017th As in the previous year, the buy-in was 300,000 US dollars. The sponsor was again the online platform 888poker . The maximum number of participants was raised to 56 players, but the demand for seats was so high that the participants were initially determined by drawing lots and then other players were invited. This approach has been criticized a lot. a. from the German high roller Fedor Holz .

transmission

The broadcast was handled by Poker Central . The first day of the tournament was streamed live and free of charge on Facebook , YouTube , Twitch and PokerGo . From the second day of the tournament, a paid subscription to PokerGo was required for the live broadcast . The event was moderated by Kara Scott and Jesse Sylvia , with Nick Schulman and Ali Nejad as commentators . Interviews with the players were conducted by Maria Ho and Drea Renee .

Attendees

With Lauren Roberts a woman took part in the tournament. Bobby Baldwin and John Morgan had to cancel their participation at short notice and were replaced by Ben Lamb and Brandon Steven . The 56 participants were:

On the by Mike McDonald opened betting site Poker shares was Fedor wood the clear favorite to win and had the correspondingly highest markup of 1.43. Winner Christoph Vogelsang was in second place with 1.39.

Results

The prize pool was $ 16.8 million. There were seven paid places for the participants. The starting stack was 300,000 chips. After the first day of the tournament there were still 44 players in the tournament and Byron Kaverman led the field. Kaverman was also the first player to break the one million chip mark. After the second day, Justin Bonomo took over the leadership of the remaining 19 participants. At the end of the third day there were eight players in the tournament and Jake Schindler was the chip leader. The fourth day of the tournament started with the final table, Jason Koon was the first player to drop out and thus missed the money ranks. The day ended with only three participants. Schindler had a massive chip lead to Christoph Vogelsang and the short stack Stefan Schillhabel . On the final day, Schillhabel von Vogelsang was initially removed from the tournament. The subsequent heads-up began Schindler with a 2: 1 chip lead over Vogelsang. After hitting a flush against Schindler's top pair, Vogelsang took the lead. In the final hand, Jake Schindler bluffed with J 8 on the board 3 10 2 7 2 . Vogelsang called with 10 7 and secured the title and a six million dollar bonus.

space origin player Prize money (in $ )
1 GermanyGermany Christoph Vogelsang 6,000,000
2 United StatesUnited States Jake Schindler 3,600,000
3 GermanyGermany Stefan Schillhabel 2,400,000
4th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Leon Tsoukernik 1,800,000
5 United StatesUnited States Byron Kaverman 1,400,000
6th United StatesUnited States Pratyush Buddiga 1,000,000
7th United StatesUnited States Justin Bonomo 0.600,000

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. Tsoukernik, Negreanu, Holz and Kempe at the Super High Roller Bowl on pokerzeit.com on February 23, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2017.
  3. Schedule on the official website, accessed on May 29, 2017 (English).
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  5. Topped up - Super High Roller Bowl with Leon, Tony G. and Negreanu on hochgepokert.com on February 23, 2017, accessed on March 29, 2017.
  6. All odds for the Super Highroller Bowl: Fedor Holz the clear favorite on pokerolymp.com from May 26, 2017, accessed on July 4, 2017.
  7. Payouts ( memento of March 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on the official website, accessed on March 29, 2017 (English).
  8. Aria Super High Roller Bowl ($ 300,000 No Limit Hold'em) in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 1, 2017.
  9. Christoph Vogelsang Wins 2017 Super High Roller Bowl ($ 6 million) on pokernews.com, accessed June 2, 2017.