The first tournament at the first major tournament series on the 2013 tournament schedule turned out to be a record-breaking affair, as the 2013 PCA $100k Super-High-Roller tournament attracted a field of 47 players, which along with 12 reentries pushed the total prize-pool to nearly $5.8 million. This is the largest field in the short history of the six-figure buy-in tournaments, and it marks the first-time since the 2011 Aussie Millions $250k Super-High-Roller that a tournament outside of the WSOP Main Event and the Big One for One Drop has offered a $2 million first-place prize to the winner.
Eight players will make the money in the event, with the top two finishers becoming instant millionaires (although most of the entrants in the tournament are already millionaires), so if you –like me—thought these tournaments were unsustainable I’ll share my plate of crow with you!
Here is a look at the payout schedule for the tournament:
• 1st place: $2,003,480
• 2nd place: $1,259,320
• 3rd place: $744,140
• 4th place: $543,800
• 5th place: $400,700
• 6th place: $286,200
• 7th place: $257,580
• 8th place: $228,960
As you can see, the payouts are very flat for the 8th, 7th, and 6th place finishers, before steadily increasing. The biggest jumps (percentage-wise) occur when you reach the Top 3 spots, which should see the final table participants going for the win, and not simply content with a pay-jump.
Day 3 will begin with just eight players still in contention, as Antonio Esfandiari was the tournament’s bubble-boy (an elimination that will cost him at least $300,000, as he goes from earning $228k for 8th place to down $100k for being eliminated in 9th place). The players who did make the official final table include some of the best-known and brightest young stars in the game, led by the massive chip-leader David “Doc” Sands, who is now an odds-on-favorite to score his first seven-figure win.
Here is a look at the chip counts for the players still in the hunt heading into the final day of the 2013 PCA $100k Super-High-Roller tournament:
1. David Sands — 6,680,000
2. Nick Schulman — 2,295,000
3. Philipp Gruissem — 1,610,000
4. Greg Jensen — 1,500,000
5. Dan Shak — 870,000
6. Scott Seiver — 755,000
7. Cary Katz — 540,000
8. Vladimir Troyanovsky — 505,000
If you’ve ever wondered what kinds of players have the liquidity to enter a six-figure buy-in event on the regular, here is a look at the complete entrants’ list for the event –many of these players are regulars in all of the Super-High-Roller tournaments played throughout the year:
1. Nick Schulman
2. Scott Seiver
3. Dan Shak
4. Vanessa Selbst
5. Jason Mercier
6. Greg Jensen
7. Cary Katz
8. Antonio Esfandiari
9. David Sands
10. Phil Ivey
11. Vivek Rajkumar
12. Daniel Negreanu
13. Philipp Gruissem
14. Fabian Quoss
15. Mike Watson
16. Vladimir Troyanovsky
17. Bill Perkins
18. Tom Marchese
19. Erik Seidel
20. Steve O’Dwyer
21. David Benefield
22. Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier
23. Tobias Reinkemeier
24. Timothy Adams
25. Anthony Gregg
26. Daniel Alaei
27. Noah Schwartz
28. Jonathan Duhamel
29. Marc-Andre Ladouceur
30. Sam Stein
31. Eugene Katchalov
32. Jason Somerville
33. JC Alvarado
34. Ashton Griffin
35. Tom Dwan
36. Justin Bonomo
37. Jeff Gross
38. Olivier Busquet
39. Isaac Haxton
40. Paul Newey
41. Bryn Kenney
42. Phil Hellmuth
43. Andrew Lichtenberger
44. Mike McDonald
45. Brandon Steven
46. Igor Kurganov
47. Jason Koon
