1. Monday 7th December: Daily SuperStack - $100: Starting Stack: 25,000 Blind level: 20 min Rake: $22 (22%) Guarantee: 3k GTD: 11:05: Orleans: 38 S-Points Average at Bubble: 14.3 bb.
2. The latest tournaments that Aria hosted in 2020 were taken down by American poker pro Jacob Daniels ($117,000), and PokerGO founder Cary Katz ($110,000). A Busy December for Vegas Poker Just this week, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) released the schedule of the 51st WSOP Main Event, which will also take place in December at the Rio Las Vegas.

The only other poker room that has legit tournament like this is Venetian. There was 100 plus entries with top getting 3k plus. For a 125 buy in that is quite nice. Top 11 got paid due to amount of entries. The tournament room is dark, but servers and dealers were great! Overall aria is the place to play.

The fans of live-action poker are in for a treat as the ARIA High Roller Tournaments are back at the ARIA casino in Las Vegas. Once a common occurring, this will be the first High Roller Tournament in ARIA since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, ARIA hosted over 30 editions of the High Roller Tournament, and the latest ones were organised in February 2020, just before the lockdowns began to happen.

The tournament will be played from 305 December, and the daily event will take place at 2 p.m local time. The High Roller Tournament will feature three $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em events, once for each day. Keeping up with the tradition, advance registrants will only have to pay $200 rake, while late buy-ins and re-entries will have to shell out $500.

While each level has a 40-minute timer, late entries are only allowed till level 6. A 30-second shot clock will be in place, and players can take advantage of six 30-second time extensions. Moreover, if a player is one of the top six contenders, they will receive six additional time extensions to find out the winner.

ARIA December High Roller Schedule

Since the COVID-19 pandemic is still strong with plenty of cases in The United States, the tournament rules stipulate that all staff, players, and organisers will have to wear masks at all times during the tournament. ARIA casino reopened its gates for poker on July 1 this year and restarted daily tournaments on September 18. This will be the first High Roller Tournament since February 2020.

The news of the tournament comes just after the announcement of Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino hosting a live component of the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event. Therefore, poker players in Vegas are surely going to have a busy December, with both offline and online poker tournaments coming in full swing.

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High roller action is officially back at Aria! A trio of $10,000 no-limit hold’em high roller tournaments will take place at the Las Vegas venue in December, another sign that the city’s live poker scene is slowly recovering after having been closed since mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The $10,000 NLH tournaments will run daily at Aria from December 3-5. Each tournament will be played six-handed, with blind levels of 40 minutes. After every two levels, players will be given a 10-minute break.

Aria is also bringing back the usual $200 rake incentive for players who register on time.

Those coming in late, as well as those who re-enter, will need to pay $500. Players can late register until the end of Level 6.

There will be a 30-second shot clock, and players may take advantage of six 30-second time extensions. The final six contenders will be given six more time extensions as they play down to a winner. The upcoming $10,000 NLH tournaments begin at 2pm (PST).

The return of the high roller tournaments at Aria are aimed at attracting local players, though anyone can take part, provided they abide by the rules and health protocols.

ARIA’s poker room has been back in operation since July, initially offering cash games. The venue eventually opened its tournament tables on September 18. Everyone entering the room, including players, employees, and organizers, will be required to comply with enhanced safety measures, such as the mandatory wearing of a face mask.

ARIA is well known for its high roller tournaments, which have become a staple in the Vegas poker calendar, attracting the top pros. In 2020, the venue has hosted just two high roller tournaments thus far (both took place in February), after mandated lockdowns were implemented as a result of the coronavirus crisis. That’s a massive drop from last year’s figures, when Aria organized a total of 33 high roller tournaments, two of them were won by Hollywood producer Randall Emmett for $210,600 in combined winnings.

The latest tournaments that Aria hosted in 2020 were taken down by American poker pro Jacob Daniels ($117,000), and PokerGO founder Cary Katz ($110,000).

A Busy December for Vegas Poker

Aria Daily Poker Tournament Schedule Las Vegas

Just this week, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) released the schedule of the 51st WSOP Main Event, which will also take place in December at the Rio Las Vegas. Along with Aria’s high roller series, December is set to be a busy month for the live poker scene in Las Vegas.