A trio of news stories from PokerStars including plans to host the first-ever $51k buy-in event in online poker history, a chance to play alongside Neymar Jr, and Cristiano Ronaldo chips up down under.

PokerStars has announced plans to set a new buy-in record with the introduction of a $51,000 buy-in event as part of the 2015 World Championships of Online Poker (WCOOP).

The $51,000 buy-in Super High Roller No-Limit Hold’em event will take place on Sun, Sep 20th – a full week before the $5,200 buy-in Main Event begins.

WCOOP will be celebrating its 14th birthday. An event that has grown from a $730k prize pool in 2002 to over $61m last year. The previous highest buy-in event was a series of $25,000 Heads-Up events held at WCOOP & SCOOP events in circa 2008 – 2011.