As you probably already know there will be no $1,000,000 tourney (Big One for One Drop) at this summer's World Series of Poker, however, there will be a $500,000 buy-in event called Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) in the beginning of July - just days before the 2015 WSOP Main Event begins.
The massive buy-in tournament will be played at Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas from 2-4 July[...] Read more » Almost 60 Players Confirmed for $500K Buy-in Tournament!
Joined: May '13
Location: Mauritius
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 2688
Wow they can afford to have so much money and to buyin with such a huge amount i cannot even buying to a one dollar tournament , lost all my money and all recently busted yet another roll and i cant do anything about it thinks i gotta stop now , just losing too much of the mob points i get lol, anyway good luck at the tables hope you have fun and also if you watching it might be a good tournament and all peace out guys! Cheers going to rest and sulk lol!
Joined: Jun '13
Location: Canada
Age: 80 (M)
Posts: 3700
Ijust went and see the players that are already entered in this tournament and besides the one that are mentionned in the news there are not to many moore that i know. IMO most of these guys are sponsored by a pool of peoples to get the 500K. entry fee. which is a lot of money for one person.
Joined: May '08
Location: Lithuania
Age: 39 (M)
Posts: 10090
we have 641,339 mobbits on BRM- it only takes a single dollar from them and i agree to take part in this super high roller bowl whatever tourney. i can even tattoo brm logo on my left ball and wear special edition jeans with my left tattooed ball sticking out through the precut hole near the pocket.
Joined: Aug '12
Location: Slovakia
Age: 36 (M)
Posts: 688
Posted by pochui: we have 641,339 mobbits on BRM- it only takes a single dollar from them and i agree to take part in this super high roller bowl whatever tourney
I like this part cause Einstein would laugh about it. The rest of your comment was some simple minded sheeeeet I can only add one joke to this with no connection whatsoever:
One redneck is invited to dinner by his friend lawyer and his wife doctor. At the table redneck is asking the doctor: R: Ms. Doctor, are you doctor? D: Yes. R: And do you believe in god? D: No. I cant understand how can anybody believe. R: Why? D: There is no proof, nobody have seen him ever. R: I also didnt see your p***y, but I believe you have one.
Joined: Feb '14
Location: Tunisia
Age: 35 (M)
Posts: 2135
big surprise lot of rich poker players i guess 500K is nothing for most of those of course it is crazy for us , but for those guys are just like playing the sunday million on pokerstars i hoped to see the 1M tournament but this one is good enough the first one to go , just like that 500k out of the window that would change my life
Joined: Feb '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 59 (M)
Posts: 5712
Could you imagine paying 1/2 a million to play a game of poker? That is just beyond imagination. Even if I won the euromillions when it was at about 147million euros I couldn't and wouldn't imagine paying this much to play poker. Good luck to them all.
Joined: Mar '11
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 55 (M)
Posts: 7371
What a great tournament this promises to be and i am really looking forward to seeing how it plays out. I agree that it is an obscene amount of money just to play a game of poker though
Posted by pochui: we have 641,339 mobbits on BRM- it only takes a single dollar from them and i agree to take part in this super high roller bowl whatever tourney. i can even tattoo brm logo on my left ball and wear special edition jeans with my left tattooed ball sticking out through the precut hole near the pocket.
No ugly ring would worth the effort to buy you into this.
Joined: Mar '12
Location: United Kingdom
Age: 45 (F)
Posts: 2261
It must be nice to have half a million dollars to hand to buy into a tournament that doesn't start until July.It would be nice to watch this kind of tournament on TV but in the UK the WSOP seems to be forgotten by any broadcasters.Hopefully the new poker central TV channel will be successful.
Joined: Jan '12
Location: Portugal
Age: 32 (M)
Posts: 405
After see the tournament with 1 million on buy.in, and lot of the big names get into, and esfandiari won, see half of the inicial buy.in, is not surprise me that more other players beside the regulares try to put their name there. And win that ring, that is a litle bit equal of the superbowl, and see the name bowl there, and is in america, maybe they try to put some categorie on poker a long with football
Joined: Jan '17
Location: Lithuania
Age: 66 (M)
Posts: 1756
I cannot imagine how people can pay such nig money to play poker, half a million is big money even for multimillionaires so these players are probably very rich almost billionaires if they can risk half a million of dollars in one single tournament, some people just have to much money
Joined: Oct '14
Location: Serbia
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 4358
Posted by Gerimantas: I cannot imagine how people can pay such nig money to play poker, half a million is big money even for multimillionaires so these players are probably very rich almost billionaires if they can risk half a million of dollars in one single tournament, some people just have to much money
trust me in those 500k and 1m$ buy in, nobody have more than 20% of themself...they all sell actions...
Joined: Dec '12
Location: New Zealand
Age: 33 (M)
Posts: 504
Posted by StheP:
Posted by Gerimantas: I cannot imagine how people can pay such nig money to play poker, half a million is big money even for multimillionaires so these players are probably very rich almost billionaires if they can risk half a million of dollars in one single tournament, some people just have to much money
trust me in those 500k and 1m$ buy in, nobody have more than 20% of themself...they all sell actions...
same goes for most events. practically like prostitutes and pimps
i thought they were having the 1drop but no pros were allowed to play?
Joined: Oct '14
Location: Serbia
Age: 34 (M)
Posts: 4358
Posted by Robbo1990:
Posted by StheP:
Posted by Gerimantas: I cannot imagine how people can pay such nig money to play poker, half a million is big money even for multimillionaires so these players are probably very rich almost billionaires if they can risk half a million of dollars in one single tournament, some people just have to much money
trust me in those 500k and 1m$ buy in, nobody have more than 20% of themself...they all sell actions...
same goes for most events. practically like prostitutes and pimps
i thought they were having the 1drop but no pros were allowed to play?
Even when they sell actions, I can see many of them deeply in debt despite being bankrolled by somebody else since the dawn of their carrier... The narrative of the world of gambling is never strong on success stories and I bet many of these people would consider a success if they could just walk away from grinding - even at this level.
Joined: Apr '09
Location: Australia
Age: 40 (M)
Posts: 6483
My understanding is that a lot of the poker pros don't own all their own action when they play with buyins this big. They definitely aren't 'rolled for it' in the general sense of saying you should have 50-100 BIs for MTTs to allow for variance.
The ones that own all their own action, despite their skill level, are gambling. Even a pro can get AA cracked by s**t, all in PRE.
