Fun Facts and Stats Concerning This Weekend's Super High Roller Bowl

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The 2018 Super High Roller Bowl begins this Sunday at ARIA Resort & Casino. The fourth edition of the tournament, which has established itself as one of poker��s most prestigious events, will see 48 players pony up the $300,000 buy-in for their shot at a roughly $5 million first-place prize.

only 23 players have participated in all three prior SHRB tournaments.

Thirty players were selected by random draw, while another 16 were invited by ARIA. The final two spots will be awarded in a $10,000 satellite to be held this weekend.

The Super High Roller Bowl will be live streamed on PokerGO while also filmed for later broadcast on NBC Sports Network, NBCSports.com, and the NBCSports app. Additionally, PokerNews will be providing exclusive live updates straight from the tournament floor.

In anticipation of the tournament, we thought it��d be fun to offers you some stats and facts regarding the Super High Roller Bowl.

For example, did you know that only 23 players have participated in all three prior SHRB tournaments? Of those, eight of them currently don��t have a seat in the 2018 edition including Scott Seiver, Pratyush Buddiga, Andrew Robl, Ben Lamb, Brandon Steven, Dan Colman, Jason Les, and Jason Mercier.

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Adrian Mateos will play the Super High Roller Bowl for the first time

Meanwhile, 14 players from this field are playing the SHRB for the first time including Adrian Mateos, Sergio Aido, Seth Davies, and Nikita Bodyakovskiy.

Past Super High Roller Bowl winners include defending champion Christoph Vogelsang (2017 - $6,000,000), Rainer Kempe (2016 - $5,000,000) and Brian Rast (2015 - $7,525,000). All of them will be in action this year.

14 players have experienced max pain firing all three past SHRBs and failing to cash - down $1.1 million.

Speaking of the past winners, it��s no surprise that they��ve profited the most in tournament history. When Rast won it, the buy-in was $500,000, so his first-place prize was a bit bigger than the past couple years. As such, he has the most overall profit being up $6,925,000 after bricking his $300K bullets in 2016 and 2017.

On the flip side, 14 players have experienced max pain firing all three past SHRBs and failing to cash. Among those down $1.1 million are Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, and Doug Polk.

Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu is the Number 1 on poker's all-time money list, but he has never cashed in the Super High Roller Bowl

Here are some other SHRB quick hits:

  • Arne Ruge, who will be playing for the first time, only has $152,846 in lifetime live tournament earnings. He��ll be paying nearly twice that just to play.
  • Of those playing this year, Negreanu has the most in lifetime earnings. However, none of his $36,546,094 has come from the SHRB.
  • Hollywood actor Kevin Hart, who played the tournament last year, is not on this year��s list.
  • 11 players who participated in the inaugural event haven��t played since. They include David ��Doc�� Sands, Dong Kim, Fabian Quoss, Isaac Baron, Jean-Robert Bellande, Max Altergott, Ole Schemion, Sam Trickett, Tobias Reinkemeier, Tom MacDonald, and Phil Ivey.
  • No player has cashed every Super High Roller Bowl. Erik Seidel is the only player to cash the tournament twice. In 2015, he finished 7th for $860,000, and in 2016 he took third for $2.4 million.

Here��s a look at all the players who��ve played the Super High Roller Bowl in years past.

PlayerResult 2015Result 2016Result 2017Ticket for 2018?Overall ResultTotal Live EarningsAll Time Money List
Brian Rast+$7,525,000-$300,000-$300,000?+$6,925,000$20,870,26515
Christoph Vogelsang-$500,000-$300,000+$6,000,000?+$5,200,000$16,847,21022
Rainer Kempe?+$4,700,000-$300,000?+$4,400,000$15,459,31227
Scott Seiver$4,660,000-$300,000-$300,000?+$4,060,000$23,075,73010
Jake Schindler?-$300,000+$3,300,000?+$3,000,000$18,364,85218
Fedor Holz-$500,000+$3,200,000-$300,000?+$2,400,000$26,310,6196
Erik Seidel+$360,000+$2,100,000-$300,000?+$2,160,000$34,507,0962
Connor Drinan+$2,725,000-$300,000-$300,000?+$2,125,000$11,032,19656
Stefan Schillhabel??+$2,100,000?+$2,100,000$9,183,24375
Leon Tsoukernik??+$1,500,000?+$1,500,000$2,783,323486
Timofey Kuznetsov+$1,650,000-$300,000??+$1,350,000$2,989,677428
Phil Hellmuth?+$1,300,000-$300,000?+$1,000,000$22,305,50312
Matt Berkey?+$800,000-$300,000?+$500,000$2,909,764383
David Peters+$1,005,000-$300,000-$300,000?+$405,000$21,248,70613
Byron Kaverman-$500,000-$300,000+$1,100,000?+$300,000$12,366,37940
Bryn Kenney?$500,000-$300,000?+$200,000$23,559,8499
        
Adrian Mateos????$0$14,230,28032
Andreas Eiler????$0$4,240,165253
Arne Ruge????$0$152,84612106
Brandon Adams????$0$3,089,596407
Dan Shak?+$300,000-$300,000?$0$9,253,79472
Dennis Blieden????$0$1,021,9801694
John Andress????$0$1,907,801807
Justin Bonomo?-$300,000+$300,000?$0$26,866,2955
Kahle Burns????$0$3,260,330377
Keith Tilston????$0$2,558,104547
Larry Greenberg????$0$1,639,998981
Markus D��rnegger????$0$1,501,7761,086
Matt Hyman????$0$1,944,724785
Nikita Bodyakovskiy????$0$9,232,18273
Sergio Aido????$0$7,214,911109
Seth Davies????$0$1,970,461767
        
Tom Marchese+$575,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$25,000$16,983,17521
Pratyush Buddiga-$500,000-$300,000$700,000?-$100,000$6,484,302134
Ankush Mandavia??-$300,000?-$300,000$4,557,393229
Antanas Guoga??-$300,000?-$300,000$5,533,302175
Christian Christner??-$300,000?-$300,000$4,025,049258
John Juanda??-$300,000?-$300,000$19,032,49911
Kathy Lehne?-$300,000??-$300,000$980,9381,833
Keith Gipson?-$300,000??-$300,000$587,2863,091
Kevin Hart??-$300,000?-$300,000--
Koray Aldemir??-$300,000?-$300,000$8,338,37790
Lauren Roberts??-$300,000?-$300,000$407,0354,515
Phil Laak?-$300,000??-$300,000$3,668,095315
Sean Winter??-$300,000?-$300,000$6,300,687141
Steffen Sontheimer??-$300,000?-$300,000$8,498,20987
Stephen Chidwick?-$300,000??-$300,000$15,620,95426
Tony Gregg?-$300,000??-$300,000$11,893,29245
Vitaliy Rizhkov?-$300,000??-$300,000$878,4001,997
Zach Hyman??-$300,000?-$300,000$1,975,387764
David Sands-$500,000???-$500,000$8,459,92188
Dong Kim-$500,000???-$500,000--*
Fabian Quoss-$500,000???-$500,000$9,659,59866
Isaac Baron-$500,000???-$500,000$5,676,651166
Jean-Robert Bellande-$500,000???-$500,000$2,169,545678
Max Altergott-$500,000???-$500,000$5,506,019178
Ole Schemion-$500,000???-$500,000$14,594,46631
Phil Ivey-$500,000???-$500,000$26,127,5047
Sam Trickett-$500,000???-$500,000$20,849,72114
Tobias Reinkemeier-$500,000???-$500,000$11,195,90552
Tom MacDonald-$500,000???-$500,000$1,022,8881,692
Ben Tollerene?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$5,735,405162
Bill Perkins?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$2,603,491535
Dan Perper?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$2,113,425701
David Einhorn?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$5,154,048192
Dominik Nitsche?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$14,621,37130
Haralabos Voulgaris?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$3,091,797405
Nick Petrangelo?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$10,809,51858
Sam Soverel?-$300,000-$300,000?-$600,000$4,799,720212
Andrew Lichtenberger-$500,000?-$300,000?-$800,000$8,544,70385
Ben Sulsky-$500,000?-$300,000?-$800,000$1,732,683909
Bill Klein-$500,000?-$300,000?-$800,000$4,082,799264
Bobby Baldwin-$500,000-$300,000??-$800,000$2,354,179600
Jason Koon-$500,000?-$300,000?-$800,000$16,587,79323
John Morgan-$500,000-$300,000??-$800,000$684,7723,106
Phil Galfond-$500,000-$300,000??-$800,000$2,339,619608
Andrew Robl-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$5,253,963193
Antonio Esfandiari-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$27,628,0484
Ben Lamb-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$8,954,02480
Brandon Steven-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$3,196,690386
Cary Katz-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$14,025,24833
Dan Colman-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$28,925,0593
Dan Smith-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$19,948,43116
Daniel Negreanu-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$36,546,0941
Doug Polk-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$9,454,00869
Igor Kurganov-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$14,999,78328
Isaac Haxton-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$18,364,25319
Jason Les-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$1,614,652999
Jason Mercier-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$18,566,36817
Talal Shakerchi-$500,000-$300,000-$300,000?-$1,100,000$4,349,047245
Brian Rast
Brian Rast is the Super High Roller Bowl's most profitable player

* Accurate earnings stats for Dong Kim are unavailable, The Hendonmob has an incomplete profile
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