WPT Coming back Twice in 2013, TV for November
Going to be a big year with PartyPoker.net bringing back two World Poker Tour stops in Canada at Playground Poker Club for 2013
Here is Scoops letting me give you the "scoop" realtime:
PartyPoker.net Sets Sights Higher in 2013 with 2 Announced WPT Stops at Playground Poker Club
Details in the link but one in May, one late November
Here is Scoops letting me give you the "scoop" realtime:
PartyPoker.net Sets Sights Higher in 2013 with 2 Announced WPT Stops at Playground Poker Club
Details in the link but one in May, one late November
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40 players, 6 weeks, you count your best 5/6 tournament finishes count for the overall standings. 4 WPT Seats available to the leaders in the "regular season" standings. Everyone else plays in a "Championship freeroll" for an additional 2 seats plus 2 satellite seats. $120 per week, players must commit to the whole league schedule to participate.
Possibility of a Mod moving it pretty please?
Are there any Euro WPT's satty's I can accidentally win and transfer to this?
Montreal Poker | Playground Poker Club :: World Poker Tour
The last $135 re-entry got more than 1200 entries, they have added a Day 1c to the $3,300 and a 5k highroller which should be huge considering the names last November.
http://www.pokerforum.ca/f10/wpt-satellites-playground-30193/
Fridays and Saturdays are always better, there are plenty of qualifiers at Playground besides the Mega Overlay as we all know, plus the online sats http://www.pokerforum.ca/f10/partypoker-wpt-montreal-spring-championship-qualifiers-30253/ which filled 50+ last time and an added Day 1....
Think 1st can hit a milly?
Starting to believe it could, especially given last times 3.4 million PP. 6-700k more is all it would really take. 500 players per Day 1 would easily get it there, which is double the growth actually needed IMO
If you have been waiting to purchase tickets for Spring Classic events the online purchasing is now live! There is a 4% processing fee, but the system is super convenient.
If you're travelling to Montreal I think that buying at least your first event in advance would be a good idea.
Good luck!
Is this Steve who use to come to West Side Events Bubba?
I'm shocked there were less than 200 players in the first day.
One of the good things about PartyPoker is their "Palladium VIP & Events" team. Even though they charge a lot for the hotel/hospitality from your package, you and your guest are treated like VIP for the events you choose to go to.
While 735 entries did match the record setting 1173 of November 2012, this was still the biggest Canadian poker prize pool of 2013 so far; the Fallsview $2,500 and $5k combined don't even eclipse it.
As for field size, again king so far for 13' in event over 1k buy-in and the $150 side event was also massive at 1413 players. All told by some rough gorilla math, it looks as if easily greater than $3.2 million in total payouts was passed around over the Playground Poker Spring Classic. More details and results here (Main Event use "Events Details" for others)
Event 7, Final Payouts
There is a lot more lead time for Nov/Dec's Televised (and slightly higher buy-in) Event and players can expect a ton of qualifiers on PartyPoker. Looks like same as PPFC, again 4 or 5 packages a week went for CSC.
Following about 70-80 players on Twitter this time around, I have to say that there was a TON of high profile American players this go around, which is certainly nice to see. We've had a hard time in Canadian events for the past 5 years attracting any significant money from outside our own poker economy, but it looks as if that has changed. Look under the hashtags #WPTCSC, #WPTmtl, #WPTMontreal and #WPTCDN and you'll see a ton of positive feedback from our guests on the venue, the city and the event in general.
With all the new blood this go and the massive turnout last fall, it's hardly a stretch to expect 1000+ in the fall.
Look for any emerging details and schedules in this thread soon.
Some of my job in the next few days will be to do some number crunching so I'll share that here.
BTW I think the guy who said it was so soft in Nov was just lucky. The field in terms of locals was pretty much identical to November in composition if not in sheer numbers. There may have been a few softer satty players fewer. The comment about local bankrolls sustaining two big events a year is interesting - but that's why the satellite program is so important - it gets the local buy-ins in the prize pool without breaking anyone's roll.