Manila, Florida, and Arizona, these are the three destinations that will likely gather the most attention among poker players in the week between September 12-18, as they will host several really noteworthy tournaments. Different poker variants and thousands of dollars in prize pools will entice both professionals and enthusiasts from all over the world. Here’s more about the upcoming major poker events and what could be expected from those.
2016 Fall Little Slick Series
Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida will once again be the host venue to an exciting poker tournament. The Fall Little Slick Series will be kicked off on September 12, featuring a $150 No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) event with a guaranteed prize pool of $150,000. The event will be taking place up through September 18.
2016 APT Manila
Resorts World Manila Casino in the Philippine capital will be the arena for poker clashes between professionals and occasional players mainly from the Asia-Pacific region (but not solely) from September 14 to September 22. The Asian Poker Tour has established itself as one of the most popular poker tours to be taking place across Asia so there is no doubt that its Manila stop will attract as much interest as APT festivals usually do.
The upcoming festival’s schedule features as many as 20 different events. Players will be able to enter No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha, and the widely popular OFC Pineapple. The $1,650 Main Event is slated to run from September 17 to September 21.
2016 Tampa Downs Fall Classic
It seems that Tampa, Florida will be the gathering place for quite a lot of poker action this week as yet another local venue will play host to a poker tournament. The Silks Poker Room at Tampa Bay Downs will open its doors for interested players from September 14 through September 18 for a thrilling fall festival.
There are four No-Limit Hold’em events to be played as part of the Tampa Downs Fall Classic’s schedule, three single-day ones and a three-day $370 Main Event with four starting flights to be played over two days and a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000.
2016 HPT Florida
The Heartland Poker Tour will next travel to Daytona Beach, Florida where it will spend 12 days. Running from September 15-26, the HPT Florida will feature six No-Limit Hold’em events. The festival will be opened with a four-day $250 No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack. The Main Event will take place on September 22-26. Everyone interested to enter it and thus get the chance to become the next HPT champion will have to pay a $1,650 buy-in for the purpose.
2016 WPTDeepStacks Arizona
Some of the most popular poker formats, attractive prize pools, tons of poker excitement – this is what WPTDeepStacks events usually offer and the tour’s Arizona stop will most certainly not be any different from what everyones is used to see. Casino Del Sol in Tuscon, Arizona will host the latest 2016 WPTDeepStacks stop from September 16-26.
There will be six events to be played as part of the poker festival, with four of them being single-day ones. The other two will be multi-day and multiple starting flight ones. The $1,100 Main Event is set to begin on September 23. Entries will have four days to determine the winner. They will contend for a portion of the guaranteed $150,000 prize pool.
