What higher solution to welcome in 2025 than by heading to hotter climes and taking part in poker for large cash? The Advantage Poker Western Sequence offers you the chance to do each as a result of the competition, held in Northern Cyprus, boasts over $4.5 million in mixed assured prize swimming pools, together with a $1,500,000 assured Major Occasion.
The Advantage Crystal Cove Lodge & On line casino in Kyrenia, North Cyprus, is the place lots of of poker gamers will descend between January 14-26 for the 2025 Advantage Poker Western Sequence. The PokerNews stay reporting group will be a part of these gamers and convey you all of the stay updates you’ll be able to deal with from the $2,200 Heat Up, the $3,300 Major Occasion, and the $5,300 Excessive Curler.
The primary occasion of the Western Sequence begins at midday native time on January 14. That’s when the $2,200 buy-in, $1,000,000 assured Heat Up shuffles up and offers. The Heat Up options 4 flights, together with a turbo-structured Day 1D.
Final 12 months’s $2,200 Heat Up noticed 446 gamers compete for an $820,640 prize pool. Italy’s Simone Andrian got here out on prime, scooping $165,000 within the course of. First place could possibly be value much more cash this time round as a result of Advantage Poker has boosted the assure from $800,000 to $1,000,000.
The primary day of the $5,300 Excessive Curler begins on January 17, and it crowns its champion on January 20. Whoever that champion is, they’ll obtain the lion’s share of the $500,000 assured prize pool. Maksim Shornikau of Belarus banked $177,500 final 12 months when this occasion had $300,000 assured, so count on even bigger payouts in 2025.
Reigning Western Sequence Major Occasion champion Mohamed Mokrani
The $3,300 Major Occasion, the ultimate occasion that PokerNews is stay reporting from, ensures $1,500,000. It runs from January 20-26. Though this is similar assure dimension because the 2024 version, some 672 gamers purchased in and created a $1,854,720 prize pool. Frenchman Mohamed Mokrani emerged victoriously in 2024, scooping $342,500!
2025 Advantage Poker Western Sequence Full Schedule
DateTimeEventGuarantee
Tue 14 Jan11:00 a.m.$360 Satellite tv for pc to Heat Up Day 1A3x seats
12:00 p.m.$2,200 NLHE Heat Up Day 1A$1,000,000
6:00 p.m.$660 NLHE Hyper Turbo Deep Stack$25,000
9:00 p.m.$505 Satellite tv for pc to Heat Up Day 1B10x seats
Wed 15 Jan11:00 a.m.$360 Satellite tv for pc to Heat Up Day 1B3x seats
12:00 p.m.$2,200 NLHE Heat Up Day 1B$1,000,000
5:00 p.m.$505 Satellite tv for pc to Heat Up Day 1C5x seats
8:00 p.,.$880 NLHE Turbo Bounty$40,000
9:00 p.m.$2,200 NLHE Heat Up Day 1C$1,000,000
Thu 16 Jan10:00 a.m.$2,200 NLHE Heat Up Day 1D Turbo$1,000,000
12:30 p.m.$2,200 NLHE Heat Up Day 2$1,000,000
6:00 p.m.$1,210 Satellite tv for pc to Excessive Roller5x seats
9:00 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Turbo Deep Stack$50,000
Fri 17 Jan12:00 p.m.Heat Up Day 3$1,000,000
12:30 p.m.$1,650 NLHE Luxon Pay Thriller Bounty Day 1A$150,000
5:00 p.m.$1,210 Satellite tv for pc to Excessive Curler Day 15x seats
7:00 p.m.$660 NL Texas Break up 7-Max$20,000
8:00 p.m.$5,300 NLHE Excessive Curler Day 1$500,000
9:00 p.m.$755 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1A10x seats
Sat 18 Jan12:00 p.m.$1,650 NLHE Luxon Pay Thriller Bounty Day 1B$150,000
12:00 p.m.Heat Up Remaining Day$1,000,000
4:00 p.m.$1,210 Satellite tv for pc to Excessive Curler Day 24x seats
6:00 p.m.$1,100 PLO
8:00 p.m.$5,300 NLHE Excessive Curler Day 2$500,000
9:00 p.m.$755 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1A10x seats
Solar 19 Jan12:00 p.m.Luxon Pay Thriller Bounty Remaining Day$150,000
12:30 p.m.$1,650 NLHE KO Bounty$100,000
4:00 p.m.NLHE Excessive Curler Day 3$500,000
5:00 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Seniors 50+$30,000
8:00 p.m.$755 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1A10x seats
10:00 p.m.$880 NLHE Hyper Turbo Bounty Freezeout$30,000
Mon 20 Jan11:00 a.m.$375 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1A3x seats
12:00 p.m.$3,300 NLHE Major Occasion Day 1A$1,500,000
1:00 p.m.NLHE Excessive Curler Remaining Day$500,000
6:00 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Single Re-Entry$30,000
7:00 p.m.$220 NLHE Ladies’s Championship$10,000
10:00 p.m.$755 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1B10x seats
Tue 21 Jan11:00 a.m.$755 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1B3x seats
12:00 p.m.$3,300 NLHE Major Occasion Day 1B$1,500,000
6:00 p.m.$755 Satellite tv for pc Major Occasion Day 1C10x seats
10:00 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Combine-Max 9-Handed Day 1$100,000
Wed 22 Jan11:00 a.m.$375 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1C3x seats
12:00 p.m.$3,300 NLHE Major Occasion Day 1C$1,500,000
2:00 p.m.$1,650 PLO Massive O KO$100,000
5:00 p.m.$630 Satellite tv for pc to Major Occasion Day 1D5x seats
7:00 p.m.$3,300 NLHE Major Occasion Day 1D Turbo$1,500,000
10:00 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Combine-Max 7-Handed Day 2$100,000
Thu 23 Jan12:00 p.m.$3,300 NLHE Major Occasion Day 2$1,500,000
6:00 p.m.$1,185 Satellite tv for pc to MILLIONS Day 1A
9:00 p.m.$1,100 PLO Double Board Bomb Pot$50,000
10:00 p.m.NLHE Combine-Max 6-Handed Remaining Day$100,000
Fri 24 Jan12:00 p.m.Major Occasion Day 3$1,500,000
12:30 p.m.$2,750 NLHE Thriller Bounty Day 1A$500,000
4:00 p.m.$630 Satellite tv for pc to Thriller Bounty Day 1B5x seats
7:00 p.m.$2,750 NLHE Thriller Bounty Day 1B$500,000
9:00 p.,.$880 NLHE Bounty KO$40,000
Sat 25 Jan11:00 a.m.$2,750 NLHE Thriller Bounty Day 1C Turbo$500,000
12:00 p.m.Major Occasion Day 4$1,500,000
12:30 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Honor Poker Cup 7-Handed Day 1$70,000
6:00 p.m.$630 Satellite tv for pc to OPE Traditional Day 15x seats
7:00 p.m.Thriller Bounty Remaining Day$500,000
9:00 p.m.$880 NLHE Turbo Deep Stack
9:00 p.m.$3,300 NLHE OPE Traditional Day 1$100,000
Solar 26 Jan12:00 p.m.$1,100 NLHE Honor Poker Cup 7-Handed Remaining Day$70,000
1:00 p.m.Major Occasion Remaining Day$1,500,000
2:00 p.m.$770 NLHE Single Re-Entry$30,000
2:00 p.m.$3,300 NLE OPE Traditional Remaining Day$100,000
6:00 p.m.$660 NLHE Deep Stack KO 6-Handed$25,000
The 2025 Advantage Poker Western Sequence has far more to supply than the $2,200 Heat Up, $3,300 Major Occasion, and the $5,300 Excessive Curler. Every day, between January 14-26, a number of tournaments and satellites run, together with the $1,650 Luxon Pay Thriller Bounty ($150,000 assured), a $1,100 Combine-Max occasion ($100,000), a $1,100 PLO Double Board Bomb Pot ($50,000), and a $3,300 OPE Traditional ($100,000).
Throw into the combo a plethora of satellites, a $1,100 Seniors, $220 Ladies’s Championship, and scores of different thrilling occasions, and you’ve got all of the elements for an epic couple of weeks in North Cyprus. Here is to seeing you there.
Matthew Pitt
Senior Editor
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker trade since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from stay reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
