A tournament super high roller will be held in Macau on 31 August

Friday August 31 will be launched the Super High Roller Turbo at the hotel StarWorld Hotel and Casino in Macau.

The Macau High Stakes Challenge is a huge Super High Roller tournament at 2 M from HK$ equivalent to a quarter of a million. This tournament will give the opportunity to 1 rebuy. The rebuy will be possible only in the first 4 levels until the player has 100,000 tokens and less, either the starting stack. It will therefore be possible to redeem the first seconds of the thus play more deep. The tournament has a turbo structure and for this reason, the blinds will rise every 30 minutes. It is therefore a tournament high roller and high variance!

This event will obviously about attract the same kind of players as the Big One for One Drop to the latest WSOP, i.e. players pros and rich businessmen.

The number of maximum entries were set at 80 and there are already more that a dozen, so hurry!

3 per cent of total scholarships will be charged as a rake. This 3%, one-third will go to a good cause and the two - remaining one-third will go to the Organization of the tournament.

Several big names in poker have already confirmed their presence. Among them: Phil Ivey, Sam Trickett who had a fine performance during the Big One, John Juanda, Gus Hansen, Erik Seidel, Johnny Chan, Andrew Robl, Joe Hachem, Philipp Gruissem and Igor Kurganov. No one yet knows if the great Phil Hellmuth will be event!

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