The second edition of the Super High Roller Bowl is progressing to an end with only 7 survivors left to contend for the first-place prize and the great honor to become the champion of one of the highest stakes poker tournaments to be held this summer.
German player Rainer Kempe is leading the final 7 into Day 4 of the event. Players are set to return at Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas today at 3 pm local time and are to play down to a winner. Kempe is to kick off the day holding more than one-third of all chips in play and followed by fellow German Fedor Holz. As previously reported, the latter has recently topped the fields of two major high roller events, with the inaugural WPT National Philippines $200,000 Triton Super High Roller being one of these.
As for Kempe, the German currently has a total of $1,951,952 in live tournament earnings. Since the beginning of his career, he has taken part and has cashed in a number of prestigious international tournaments. Late in 2015, the player topped the field of the EPT Season 12 Prague €25,500 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller 8-Handed for €539,000, which has been his best live achievement so far.
Aside form the two German players, the Super High Roller Bowl’s final table of seven would be all-American. Here are all remaining players to compete in the tournament and their respective chip counts:
Rainer Kempe – 5,545,000
Fedor Holz – 2,190,000
Bryn Kenney – 2,085,000
Dan Shak – 1,650,000
Matt Berkey – 1,205,000
Erik Seidel – 1,120,000
Phil Hellmuth – 905,000
This year, as many as 49 players entered the Super High Roller Bowl with a buy-in fee of $300,000. Quite expectedly, some of the world’s most popular and profitable poker players were seen at the tables of Aria Resort & Casino, with Daniel Negreanu, Dan Colman, Isaac Haxton, and Erik Seidel being only few of those.
The winner is to collect a first-place prize of $5,000,000 and a special champion’s ring crafted exclusively for the tournament and the player who would top its star-studded field. In general, the top 7 finishers would get paid. Here it is also important to note that all 7 finalists left at the final table are guaranteed a minimum payout of $600,000.
Last year, Brian Rast won the inaugural edition of the Super High Roller Bowl. The event was then a $500,000 one and the champion was awarded a first-place prize of more than $7.5 million.
