German poker pro wins 2017 Super High Roller Bowl

The fifth and final day of the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl at the ARIA Resort & Casino saw the final three players out of the starting 56 world-class entrants — Jake Schindler, Christoph Vogelsang and Stefan Schillhabel — play for the title. After five hours of tense action, Christoph Vogelsang defeated Schindler heads-up for his first title, Super High Roller Bowl championship ring and $6 million.

"I'm just happy and it came unexpectedly, because I didn't have a lot of chips and was up against a really good player," Vogelsang said. "I kind of thought ahead to heads-up play; last night I looked at the odd of making heads-up, and I thought I was only 15% to not make it. It's great, I feel good. It's such a great tournament — it's got the best structure ever, and the ARIA is doing such an amazing job, and I hope I can play here again."

"Our hats go off to Christoph, our finalists and everyone who competed in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl," said Sampson Simmons, vice president of content, Poker Central. "We're proud to stream this year's biggest poker tournaments with poker's biggest stars on the PokerGO platform, and we can't wait for next year's event."

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Poker Central announces 2016 Super High Roller Bowl

Poker Central, the world's only 24/7 poker TV network, along with POKER PROductions, producers of the first Super High Roller Bowl, and Aria Resort & Casino, the stunning Forbes Five-Star and AAA Five Diamond Award-winning resort, on Thursday announced the return of the Super High Roller Bowl.

"There are few poker events that can change the landscape of the game overnight -- the Super High Roller Bowl is one of them," said Clint Stinchcomb, CEO of Poker Central. "The 2016 Super High Roller Bowl will be even more exciting than last year's!"

The eight all-time money leaders in poker, including Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth, are expected to play.

This year, the Super High Roller Bowl has a projected prize pool of $15 million with a buy-in of $300,000. The tournament features seven 7-handed tables and is capped at 49 seats.

"With 14 of the seats being reserved by ARIA for their non-professional, super high rollers, that only leaves 35 seats for other players," added Stinchcomb. "As interest has already built up, we expect to sell out quickly."

ARIA will begin accepting player deposits to lock-in their seats on Jan. 22.

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