Over $7M awaits the winner of the Super High Roller Bowl. The event, which included a massive $500,000 buy-in featured no less than six current and former #1 ranked players on the GPI World Poker Rankings as Jason Mercier (GPI No. 1), Daniel Negreanu (GPI No. 18), Scott Seiver (GPI No. 4), Erik Seidel (GPI No. 45), Ole Schemion (GPI No. 15) and Dan Smith (GPI No. 3) were six members of the 43-player field
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But before poker fans get to see which player wins the Super High Roller Bowl, the Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout will be presented. Celebrities Hank Azaria, Don Cheadle, Brad Garrett, Norm Macdonald and Kevin Pollak will battle poker superstars Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Vanessa Selbst with the winner of the single-table tournament taking home a cool million dollars!
The action kicks off this coming Wednesday on NBCSN with a trio of new episodes presented all through the summer and the fall:
NBCSN COVERAGE
Celebrity Shootout Episodes 1, 2, 3 Wednesday, July 29, 2015 6pm-9pm ET
Episodes 4, 5, 6 Wednesday, August 5, 2015 6pm-9pm ET
Super High Roller Bowl Episodes 1, 2, 3 Friday, August 28, 2015 8pm-11pm ET
Episodes 4, 5 Tuesday, September 8, 2015 7pm-9pm ET
Episodes 6, 7 Friday, October 2, 2015 10:30pm-12:30am ET
NBCSN will also presenting replay episodes throughout the summer and fall seasons, the full broadcast schedule is available on the Super High Roller Bowl website.
Here is a sneak peek of the Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout: