€100,000 EPT Super High Roller starts in Barcelona
The €100,000 EPT Super High Roller — Event #28 — opens Thursday, August 21, 2026, at Casino Barcelona, running through August 23 alongside the €2,700 PokerStars Open High Roller. This is the marquee high-stakes block of the festival week: no juice on the buy-in (€100,000 flat per PokerStars Live schedule), unlimited re-entry, and card-exposed streams from August 23 covering SHR and the €5,300 EPT Main Event. Last year's edition drew 47 entries; Leon Sturm (Germany) won €1,450,385.
Why SHR week matters to micro-stakes grinders
You are not buying in — good. But every SHR stream resets pool aggression for the next month: 3-bet sizes, river overbets, light 4-bets copied badly at $0.50/$1 on NUTS POKER. Watch for structure, not hero calls. The winners this week will be names already deep in Barcelona: Wilson, Dwan, Ladva, Roiter, Mokri — the same crew final-tabling €20K–€25K events. SHR is continuation, not a new cast.
Schedule collision to note
- Aug 21–23: €100,000 SHR + €2,700 Open High Roller — lobby chaos, late reg traps.
- Aug 22: €5,300 EPT Main Event Day 1 starts — pros choose flagship vs SHR, not both seriously.
- Aug 23: €50,000 SHR Second Chance — bullets for bustouts; stream overlap peaks.
- Aug 25–27: €3,250 Mystery Bounty — softer EV for mortals if you are actually in Barcelona.
I remember copying a SHR bluff into NL10
I remember river overbetting NL10 with third pair because Ivey did it on a Triton stream.** Station called. Obviously. SHR content is education when you extract one sizing rule — it is tax when you import the whole vibe. Barcelona SHR week is spectator season unless your bankroll has five zeros**.
Pick one SHR stream night, write down a single preflop sizing rule, test it in ten NUTS POKER hands. €100K Barcelona is theatre; your ledger is homework.
