The $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha Begins at 2 PM
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Today sees Event #73: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha (8-Handed) get underway here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
This event will shuffle up and deal at 2 p.m. local time with late registration running for the first 12 levels (two hours into Day 2). There is a 15-minute break scheduled after every two levels. No dinner break is scheduled for today.
The starting stack will be 150,000 in chips with the plan for Day 1 to play ten levels. Each level will last 60 minutes. For the surviving players, Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 30.
Last year's edition of this event got 449 entries. Ka Kwan Lau, a pot-limit Omaha pro, defeated Sergio Martinez Gonzalez heads up for the title. Lau won $2,294,756 for his first-place finish.
The high turn out and even higher buy-in put $10,551,500 in the prize pool.
"I feel great. It feels like I have been missing something and now it is complete," Lau told the press. "I am very happy with that. I came here two years ago to win the bracelet. I can't really say yet how happy I am."
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 449 | Ka Kwan Lau | Hong Kong | $2,294,756 |
| 2022 | 264 | Tong Li | China | $1,467,739 |
| 2021 | 212 | Shaun Deeb | United States | $1,251,860 |
| 2020 | - | Not held | - | - |
| 2019 | 278 | Stephen Chidwick | United Kingdom | $1,618,417 |
| 2018 | 230 | Shaun Deeb | United States | $1,402,683 |
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