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Super High Roller Bowl Expands to China

Poker Central Super High Roller Bowl has become the premier Super High Roller event in live poker. Starting in 2015, the event’s top prize is second only to the WSOP Main Event. It’s no surprise that Poker Central would seek to expand this event and on Tuesday they announced their latest expansion with the creation of the 2018 Super High Roller Bowl China.

Super High Roller Bowl China Will Feature a Guaranteed $100 Million HKD Prize Pool

Poker Central issued a press release on Tuesday announcing the creation of the Super High Roller Bowl China. The inaugural event will take play from March 20-22, 2018 at the Babylon Casino, Macau Fisherman’s Wharf in Macau, China.

The $2,100,000 HKD (~$268,602 USD) buy-in event will feature a guaranteed prize pool of $100 million HKD (~$12.79 million USD). Macau Billionaire Poker will guarantee the event. They have been running high roller tournaments since 2012 and opened their first live poker room at Babylon Casino in 2016.

There will be a 49 player cap and unlimited re-entries. According to Poker Central VP of content Sampson Simmons, “As the annual Super High Roller Bowl out of Las Vegas continues to be the gold standard for high roller tournament poker, we knew the time was right to expand the format globally. China is one of poker’s largest markets, and Macau Billionaire Poker is a natural partner to help bring the Super High Roller Bowl series to poker fans internationally.”

Event Will Be Invite-Only

The Super High Roller Bowl China will be an invite-only event unlike events in the United States that were at least partially open to anyone interested and able to post the buy-in. This format can be good and bad for the event depending on how Poker Central chooses to pursue players.

Odds are that Poker Central will reach out to major high stakes players around the world to take part in this event. We will certainly see common fixtures of the high stakes world such as Daniel Negreanu, Fedor Holz and even Erik Seidel.

However, this format does allow for non-professional high rollers to take part and we may even get to see some unknown foreign high stakes superstars we would normally not see on standard American poker TV programming.

Although not specifically stated in the presser, this event will likely be carried by Poker GO to help fill their promise of 100 days of live poker. Knowing thise, we can expect that those invited will have a combination of high stakes prowess and charisma needed to bring viewers to the platform.

With the regular expansion of High Roller events and the success of the Super High Roller Bowl in the United States, this type of event seemed inevitable. Should it prove successful, it will be another feather in the cap of Poker Central as they continue to establish themselves as the premier live poker content provider in the industry.

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