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The Popularity of Super High Roller Events; Derrick Oliver @ highrollerradioshow.com
Topic Started: Nov 19 2012, 05:43 PM (167 Views)
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The Popularity of Super High Roller Events

Today on High Roller Radio - the 10th largest top prize in the history of tournament poker! It goes to….Oy Oy Oy…one Stanley Choi. Talk about Super High Roller!
The big buy-in tournament is a phenomenon these days, high enough entry fees certain to weed out the pretenders and invite the contenders to a smaller field, but a stacked field of talented rip-your-throat-out high stakes playing machines. It gives players a chance to, realistically with the shorter fields, less tto navigate and dodge, become a multi-millionaire with one swing of the bat. Let’s face it; it’s easier to beat 100 people than it is to beat 4,000 people.

In Hong Kong, at the Star World Hotel Poker King Club, the High Stakes Challenge, a $2-million buy-in (Hong Kong currency,) a little more than a quarter-million by US standards, 73 players paid their way into the event, 21 of whom exercised their one re-buy option, creating a massive prize pool of nearly $24 million USD. Wow! Staggering high stakes action folks.

At the end of the day, Choi proved victorious, pocketing $6.4 million for his efforts. Not too shabby, as my granddaddy would say, not too shabby at all.

Super high roller events have grown in popularity in recent years, but this was by far the largest of its kind outside of the $1,000,000 buy-in “Big One for One Drop” at the 2012 World Series of Poker. There have been two previous $250,000 buy-in events, both held at the Aussie Millions, but neither featured a re-buy or drew as many players as this event.

Choi’s score of $6.4 million is the largest ever outside of the aforementioned Big One for One Drop and the past eight WSOP $10,000 main events.
Stanley Choi…Super High Roller.

-Derrick Oliver

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