The historic $5 Million ClubWPT Gold Invitational Freeroll subsequent weekend will function tons of of leisure gamers from all over the world all competing for life-changing cash at Wynn Las Vegas. However there can even be a great mixture of professionals, content material creators, and non-poker personalities competing within the record-breaking occasion.
By no means earlier than has the poker world seen a freeroll with a pot even near as huge as what we’re all about to witness Dec. 13-15 on the Las Vegas Strip. The match is one in every of many highlights of the third annual World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship pageant, a sequence that features the return of the $10,400 WPT World Championship, a match that had a $40 million prize pool final 12 months.
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There might be at the least one Barstool Sports activities persona in attendance throughout the ClubWPT Gold freeroll. Eric “Barstool Nate” Nathan, who beforehand hosted the Cracking Aces poker podcast, might be heading out west subsequent week to take his shot on the $1 million first place prize.
Nate received a ClubWPT Golden Passport and he shared the congratulatory message he obtained along with his 130,000 X followers. The Washington Commanders fanatic can also be gifting away 1% of his potential money within the freeroll to 3 X followers who made a Barstool Sports activities retailer buy throughout a Black Friday sale.
Nate does not shrink back from the truth that he is, by his personal admission, punted some main occasions up to now, together with a pair occasions within the World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Foremost Occasion. He did, nevertheless, money in 717th place within the Foremost Occasion this previous summer time, and it was the final reside match he is performed.
The longtime Barstool Sports activities persona tweeted that he’s “extraordinarily excited to play” the freeroll, and “allow us to pray I do not punt.” Avoiding the punt and operating deep within the freeroll ought to make his Barstool Sports activities boss, Dave Portnoy, pleased.
PokerNews Podcasters, “Chainsaw” to Compete
Two members of the PokerNews Podcast — Kyna England and Mike Holtz — have received tickets into the historic freeroll at Wynn. Holtz, an internet poker crusher, has $765,000 in reside match cashes, in response to The Hendon Mob. England, a Chicago space native, has over $1 million in cashes and was the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Season 12 Participant of the Yr.
The duo of PokerNews podcasters might be joined within the $5 million match by quite a lot of different acquainted faces from throughout the poker world, together with longtime WSOP announcer Lon McEachern and Allen Kessler, who received a Golden Passport by means of a drawing Xuan Liu held.
There are nonetheless loads of alternatives for poker gamers to win a Golden Passport into the $5 million freeroll. ClubWPT Gold might be gifting away 300 seats through satellites within the coming days and numerous contests. Gamers are additionally inspired to go to the ClubWPT Golden Tree sales space at Wynn Dec. 8-12 for extra alternatives to snag a Golden Passport (you can too win different prizes resembling a McLaren GTS luxurious automobile).
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