Linda Barber is a bounty champion, the World Poker Tour begins it’s December on the Wynn with a bang, and the Borgata Winter Open schedule is launched are the brief stacks CardsChat picked up in its newest orbit of poker information.
Linda Barber received the Ladies in Poker Corridor of Fame Bounty event that passed off at Resorts World Las Vegas this week. Her $185 buy-in earned her $4,536. The tourney was a part of the Ladies in Poker Corridor of Fame 2024 induction festivities, which noticed Kristen Foxen, Jeanne Davis, and Starla Brodie put into the corridor.
The highest 9 finishers have been: Linda Barber ($4,536), Melanie Pittard ($2,803), Amy Wingate ($1,878), Holly Jones ($1,310), Thea Temple ($958), JJ Liu ($732), Janie Maddox ($598), Linda Johnson ($504), and Meredith Campbell ($433).
WPT on the Wynn in full stride
The World Poker Tour championship sequence is off to a implausible begin with its $1,100 Prime Championship Day 1D setting a file with 3,866 entries. That brings the ultimate variety of entrants to 9,670, making the prize pool $9,379,000. It fell in need of final 12 months’s Prime Championship on the Wynn’s file of 10,512 entrants.
It’s an unbelievable begin to what might be a tremendous month of poker on the Wynn. Simply try the schedule:
The ClubWPT Gold $5 Million Freeroll begins tomorrow and runs till Dec. 15. Entrants to this event bought in by many various avenues. Try this enjoyable piece by WPT’s Tim Fiorvanti to be taught extra. A kind of people will win $1 million.
The $10,400 WPT World Championship on the Wynn takes place Dec. 14-21. The $1,100 Women Championship takes place Dec. 14-15 and the WPT Alpha8 $25,800 buy-in Excessive Curler takes place Dec. 18-19.
Borgata Winter Open returns
The Borgata Winter Open is scheduled to happen Jan. 2-26, in Atlantic Metropolis, and contains a handful of occasions with important ensures. A few of the highlights are:
$600 Kick Off Deep Stack Jan. 2-6: $1 million assured
$1,250 Mirror Thriller Bounty, Jan 5-8: $500,000 assured
$400 Almighty Million, Jan 7-11: $1 million assured
$3,500 Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship, Jan 12-16: $2 million assured
All 4 of those occasions can have their ultimate tables live-streamed by the Borgata. Satellites for these occasions are actually working on BetMGM’s on-line poker rooms.
Different notable tourneys embody a $2,500 buy-in $150,000 assured heads-up championship on Jan. 8 (64 participant max), a $365 Seniors occasion with a $50,000 assure on Jan. 11, and a $500 Omaha Hello/Lo championship on Jan. 2.
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