2017 Super High Roller Bowl Sells Out, Players Turned Away

The $300,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl won’t kick off until May 28, but all of the 35 open seats have already been filled. In fact, a total of 54 players put up a deposit for the buy-in, hoping to get a spot in the high-stakes tournament through a random drawing.

The Aria event, presented by Poker Central, will actually have a total field size of 50 and will be played rake free with a prize pool of $15 million and $5 million reserved for the winner.

German poker pro Rainer Kempe banked $5 million when he won the 2016 edition and Brian Rast pocketed $7.525 million for taking down the 2015 tournament, when the buy-in was $500,000.

“The lightning speed of the Super High Roller Bowl’s sellout confirms it’s now the world championship of high stakes poker,” said Joe Kakaty, president of Poker Central. “Every player wants to play in the Super High Roller Bowl.”

The remaining 15 seats are reserved for players chosen by Aria, with one seat reportedly saved for a celebrity to be named later.

Here is the field of 35 who locked up a seat via the random drawing.

According to Poker Central, the 35 runners have combined live tournament earnings of more than $323 million, including 33 World Series of Poker bracelets

Among the players who were left on the outside looking in were notables such as Daniel Negreanu, Justin Bonomo, Dan Smith, Jason Koon, Cary Katz, Max Altergott, Darren Elias, Bill Klein, Andrew Robl, Dan Shak, Jason Mercier, Charlie Carrel and Daniel Colman.

Phil Hellmuth, who tweeted that he would be playing this year after finishing fourth in 2016 for $1.6 million, was also not among those selected.

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