They are saying every thing is larger in Texas, and that features the poker event prize swimming pools.
Take, for instance, the upcoming sequence at Champions Membership in Houston — the Fall Poker Open — which encompasses a $1 million assured Primary Occasion, together with 14 different juicy tournaments. Motion begins on the Texas poker membership Oct. 16, and it concludes Oct. 28.
Fall Poker Open Sequence Highlights
Champions Membership, co-owned by 17-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) champion and Poker Corridor of Famer Phil Hellmuth, is likely one of the high cardrooms within the Lone Star State. The membership has hosted quite a few large occasions the previous few years, and the upcoming Fall Poker Open will solely add to that resume.
The sequence begins with a $400 Monster Stack event on the sixteenth, which encompasses a $100,000 assured minimal prize pool. A $450 Thriller Bounty event kicks off the next day, and that one guarantees a minimum of $250,000 within the pot, together with bounties.
Pot-Restrict Omaha motion takes place on Oct. 17 with a $300 turbo event. There shall be a minimum of $15,000 within the prize pool for the primary of two PLO occasions throughout the Fall Poker Open. The second, a $400 non-turbo occasion on Oct. 24, additionally has a $15,000 assured prize pool.
Non-hold’em gamers can even benefit from the $500 H.O.R.S.E. event ($15,000 assured) operating Oct. 21 and the $250 Triple Draw ($5,000 assured) on Oct. 23. There are additionally Seniors ($250 buy-in) and Girls’s ($140 buy-in) occasions scheduled for the ultimate two days of the sequence.
However the greatest spotlight of the Fall Poker Open at Champions Membership is the $1,500 buy-in Primary Occasion, a $1 million assured event. Play begins at midday on Oct. 23 with the primary of seven beginning flights. The Day 2 restart is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the twenty seventh. There shall be a number of turbo Day 1 beginning flights, together with Day 1g at 8 a.m. on Oct. 27, hours earlier than Day 2 begins.
Your complete sequence can pay out a minimum of $1,485,000 in prize cash. However gamers can anticipate that determine to solely be a place to begin as event poker in Texas, particularly at cardrooms comparable to Champions Membership, are likely to smash ensures recurrently.
Gamers touring to Houston to compete within the Fall Poker Open can get an unique discounted resort room price of $99 plus tax by calling 281-688-5756 and utilizing code FP024.
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