Five Thoughts: High Roller Records, Chino Rheem’s Credit Score, and DP on TV

After the World Poker Tour wrapped up another successful season in Hollywood, Florida, all eyes are on Monaco this week with the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino EPT Grand Final kicking off.

The event runs April 26 to May 6, 2016, with too many tournaments to count and is the last big thing on the poker scene before the 2016 World Series of Poker begins May 29 in Las Vegas.

PokerNews’ coverage will start with Day 1 of the €100,000 Super High Roller event on April 28 and organizers are expecting this to be one of the biggest high roller events ever.

Super High Rollers Raring To Go

Like most working stiffs, I have a hard time wrapping my mind around the idea that someone is willing to pay €100,000 to enter a poker tournament. Yet here I am in Monaco, where the €100,000 Super High Roller goes off Thursday, and is looking to top last year’s record-setting 71 entries.

Somewhat less surprising is the fact Hall of Famer Erik Seidel took that event down, as he’s been the biggest benefactor of the boom in big buy-in events around the poker world over the past few years.

Media alerts from PokerStars claim Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu and Jason Mercier were already signed up to participate and they expect that record of 71 to fall. Being somewhat less ambitious, I’m going to set the over-under at 50 entries and still wonder why anybody but Seidel is willing to fire what amounts to a pretty decent year’s income into this thing. Don’t even get me started on the turbo-structured €50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller coming up Sunday.

Bad Credit? Need A Loan? Act Fast, Call Now: The Chino Rheem Story

David “Chino” Rheem has done it again. He won his third WPT title last week, taking down the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $10,000 Finale for $705,855, and once again, managed to let his success on the felt get overshadowed by stories of bad debt.

Just like they did when he won the 2008 Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic for over $1.5 million, the 2013 WPT World Championship for $1.15 million, placed seventh in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event for $1.8 million and won a 2011 Epic Poker League title for $1 million, the legions who have lent money to Rheem over the years apparently followed him to the cage looking for payback.

How someone can have over $8 million in career tournament earnings and still owe is beyond me. Let’s just …

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