Philipp Gruissem Leads Record-Breaking PCA10 $100k Super High Roller

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Jan/06/2013
Philipp Gruissem Leads Record-Breaking PCA10 $100k Super High Roller

A total of 47 total players bought in to today's PCA Super High Roller making it the largest ever turn-out for a $100k tournament. The current chip leader - with 771,500 - is EPT London High Roller winner Philipp Gruissem who was one of ten players to re-enter today. Three players (businessman Paul Newey, Bryn Kenney and Igor Kurganov) bust twice and, so far, have not entered a third time. A total of 37 players are left at present. Players have until the first hand tomorrow to decide if they want to re-enter. The seat draw will be published at noon.

See: PokerStars blog report | Day 1 survivors

Saturday’s survivors included Team PokerStars Pros Jonathan Duhamel, Vanessa Selbst, Daniel Negreanu, Eugene Katchalov, Jason Mercier and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier as well as Team Online's Isaac Haxton, Phil Ivey, Justin Bonomo, Tom Marchese, businessman Bill Perkins and last year's runner-up Dan Shak. The Super High Roller is being filmed every day and spectators are very welcome. Please come along and encourage others to watch the event too. The final will be broadcast live on #PCALive on Monday, January 7 at 20:00 (14:00 ET)

PCA 2013 
A total of 40 tournaments are taking place at Atlantis during the 2013 PCA festival, being billed the "best ten days of the poker on the planet". Aside from the Super High Roller, events include the $10k Main Event, the $25k High Roller, Ladies Event, the first-ever live $1,000 buy-in ZOOM Mobile Challenge, the first Open-Face Chinese poker tourney to be hosted on any live tournament schedule, the World Cup of Poker, the Canada Cup, $1k HORSE, Triple Stud and Omaha 8 events, nightly turbo tournaments - not to mention plenty of Sit and Go and cash game action.

 

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