Thirty-five of the fifty-four players who registered to play in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl at the Aria Resort & Casino were selected through a lottery process by Aria’s director of poker operations, Monday.
The $300,000 buy-in event, which is billed as the richest poker event of 2017, is due to run May 28 to 31, 2017.
The event, capped at 50 seats of which the Aria retains the right to pick the remaining fifteen players, will offer a rake-free prize pool of $15 million, $5 million of which is guaranteed for the winner.
The 35 players selected today were:
1 Christian Christner
2 Antonio Esfandiari
3 Igor Kurganov
4 Matt Berkey
5 Connor Drinan
6 Steffen Sontheimer
7 Jake Schindler
8 Pratyush Buddiga
9 Rainer Kempe
10 Sean Winter
11 John Juanda
12 Dominik Nitsche
13 Christoph Vogelsang
14 Stefan Schillhabel
15 Andrew Robl
16 Brian Rast
17 Bryn Kenney
18 Fedor Holz
19 David Peters
20 Jason Les
21 Ben Tollerene
22 Tom Marchese
23 Erik Seidel
24 Sam Soverel
25 Scott Seiver
26 Ankush Mandavia
27 David Einhorn
28 Nick Petrangelo
29 Haralabos Voulgaris
30 Isaac Haxton
31 Andrew Lichtenberger
32 Doug Polk
33 Ben Sulsky
34 Byron Kaverman
35 Koray Aldemir