Tom Marchese and Bryn Kenney Win April Aria $25,000 High Rollers

For the last few years Aria has played host to back-to-back $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller events each month. The 2016 April runnings of these small-field, high-stakes tournaments took place over this past weekend.

2016 Aria High Roller XXVIII

The high-rollin’ weekend kicked off with the first of two tournaments at 2:00 PM local time on April 1. A total of 28 entries were made in the _ Aria High Roller XXVIII,_ building a total prize pool of $672,000.

In the end 2010 Card Player Player of the Year Tom Marchese emerged victorious, securing the $260,655 first-place prize and 420 Player of the Year points.

Incredibly, this was Marchese’s sixth title run in this event. He has made the money 11 in this event, dating back to when he kicked off his run at Aria by winning back-to-back high rollers in one weekend in January, 2015. All told Marchese has cashed for $2,484,582 in this event since it’s inception.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded in this event:

2016 Aria High Roller XXIX

The second event of the weekend drew 25 total entries to build a $600,000 prize pool. This time around it was 2016 Player of the Year race contender Bryn Kenney who came out on top.

For the win he earned $233,794 and 420 POY points, coming just a month after he took down the 2016 Aria High Roller XXVII for $422,400.

This was Kenney’s ninth final table of the year and his third title run of 2016. He now sits in fourth place in the overall POY standings with 2,474 points and year-to-date earnings of $2,758,431.

To nobody’s surprise Tom Marchese finished third for another $119,893 and 280 POY points. He now occupies the 21st-place spot on the leader board as a result.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded in this event: