Aria Resort & Casino and Poker Central have joined forces to debut the Poker Masters high roller poker festival this September. The week-long series will run from September 13-20 and will feature four $50,000 buy-in events as well as a $100,000 buy-in one.
Featured and final tables will be streamed throughout the festival via PokerGO, known to be Poker Central’s video subscription service. Content from Poker Masters will be streamed every day, with Sunday 17 being the only exception.
Each of the $50,000 buy-in tournaments will be held over two days. As for the $100,000 event, it will take three days for the winner to be determined.
The series will begin with a $50,000 buy-in tournament on September 13. Another such event will kick off on each of the next three days. The $100,000 buy-in tournament will take place on September 18-20.
The $50,000 buy-in events will allow a single re-entry option, while the $100,000 one will be a freezeout with no re-entries allowed. Organizers have decided not to put a cap on the number of participants in each of the tournaments to take place. There will be no rake for entries who join the field on time. However, latecomers will be charged a rake. Each of the five tournaments will feature a 30-second shot clock per hand. In addition, players in each of the events will be allowed three 60-second time banks every day.
The player who rakes in the most throughout the series will become the Poker Masters Champion and aside from their hefty payout will also be awarded the Poker Masters Purple Jacket, designed by popular fashion designer Waraire Boswell.
Located in the heart of Las Vegas, Aria Resort & Casino has become a preferred choice for quality poker action among high roller players. The gambling venue has been hosting regular $25,000, $50,000, and $100,000 tournaments for several years now. It is also the organizer of the annual Super High Roller Bowl, known to be one of the highest buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments to be taking place once every year.
This year, the event featured a $300,000 buy-in fee and a prize pool of $16.8 million. Germany’s Christoph Vogelsang topped a field of 56 entries, represented by some of the world’s most accomplished poker pros as well as by wealthy poker enthusiasts, to emerge the victor and scoop the specially crafted Super High Roller Bowl championship ring and the $6-million first-place prize.
The event was first held in 2015 when US poker pro Brian Rast took it down for $7.525 million. In 2016, Rainer Kempe defeated Fedor Holz in an all-German final to win the tournament for $5 million.
