The Big 4 High Roller drew a huge crowd to the $25,500 buy-in event and they pushed the $2,000,000 guaranteed prize pool over $3,000,000 by the time registration closed. Only eight of the starting 123 players remain and they’ll play it out for the title in front of the Poker Night in America cameras.
The eight players have combined for more than $53,000,000 in career earnings along with countless tournament trophies. Shaun Deeb leads the final table but there are seven talented players trying to catch.
Seat 1: Tom Marchese
Chip Count – 1,180,000
Marchese is a pro player and a regular in any High Roller event around the world. His $17.5 million in career earnings is huge and good enough for second all-time at this final table behind Jake Schindler. Marchese has 13 cashes over $100,000 and six that were $1,000,000 or more.
Seat 2: Barry Hutter
Chip Count – 1,320,000
The hometown Hollywood, FL hero will move over $4.7 million in career earnings no matter where he finishes at the final table and he can add another award to his list of credits. He already owns a WSOP Circuit ring from 2010, a WSOP bracelet from 2015, and he has one career WPT final table.
Seat 3: Jake Schindler
Chip Count – 2,035,000
The Northeast grinder is another familiar face in High Rollers around the world and his $20,000,000 in career earnings puts him at the top of the list among these final table players. Schindler has too many Aria High Roller wins to count and he began his trophy hunt with a tournament win here during the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open.
Seat 4: Ory Hen
Chip Count – 710,000
Hen is a constant, familiar, friendly face in all of our tournaments and the SHRP favorite will return to the final table as the shortest stack. He has proven his ability to finish off a tournament with a half dozen SHRP titles to go along with his WSOP Circuit ring. He is also a former SHRP Player of the Year after a huge run in 2015.
Seat 5: Paul Hofer
Chip Count – 1,365,000
The German pro is one of only three players at this final table with a WSOP bracelet. Hofer picked up nearly $650,000 when he won the $1,111 WSOP Little One for One Drop tournament in 2015. He also earned another nice score for an Aussie Million title back in 2016.
Seat 6: Mark Fisher
Chip Count – 1,625,000
Fisher is the big unknown quantity at this High Roller final table. The futures trader from Bar Harbor has only a handful of tournament results to his credit but he cashed a big one when he went deep in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event. Fisher only non-pro at the final table but he has not been intimidated by the High Roller regulars.
Seat 7: Shaun Deeb
Chip Count – 3,205,000
Our chip leader Shaun Deeb has been on quite a roll all summer long. The high-stakes cash game pro has been hitting it big on the tournament side with 16 cashes during this summer’s World Series of Poker including two more bracelets bringing his total to four career WSOP wins. All those results add up to make him the current frontrunner for the WSOP Player of the Year.
Seat 8: Omar Zazay
Chip Count – 870,000
Zazay may not be from South Florida but we can still count him among our favorites after winning a monster title. He has $1.8 million in career earnings with a cool $1,000,000 of it coming almost exactly three years ago. Zazay outlasted 907 players to win the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship which ran as a freeze-out that year.