This week’s poker tournaments overview spreads across three different continents. A festival in the world’s gambling mecca Macau, one in Vienna, one in Malta, and two in the US are the most exciting poker events to kick off in the week between October 17-23. The following paragraphs include more comprehensive information about where exactly the festivals are set to take place and when, as well as about the tournaments they will be featuring.
EPT Season 13/IPT Season 8 Malta
The EPT and the plethora of other PokerStars-sponsored series of live tournaments will be no more, or at least not in their current form, as of 2017. As the world’s biggest poker room announced earlier this year, all live poker tours it organizes throughout the year in different locations will be combined into the PokerStars Championship.
Malta will be the penultimate stop to take place within the EPT. Portomaso Casino in St. Julian’s will play host to the exciting poker festival from October 18-29. Its schedule includes 60 different events, with traditional poker variants like No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha and mixed formats like H.O.R.S.E. being among them.
As usual, the festival will also feature several high roller tournaments, with the €25,750 High Roller Single Re-Entry being the highest buy-in one. The highlight EPT Malta €5,300 Main Event is scheduled for October 23-29.
It is also important to mention that the EPT has once again partnered with the IPT (Italian Poker Tour) for a thrilling poker festival in a thrilling poker destination. There will be a number of events to take place as part of the IPT schedule at Portomaso Casino. The IPT €300 Main Event is slated for October 19-23.
APT Macau
Casino Lisboa, a true jewel on the Macau skyline, will welcome players for this latest festival on the Asian Poker Tour schedule. The event will kick off on October 19 and will run through October 25. As many as 14 events will take place within the festival, with all of them being No-Limit Hold’em ones.
A HK$2,200 tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of HK$300,000 is scheduled to open the APT Macau festival. The five-day HK$22,000 Main Event will begin on October 21.
WPT National Vienna
This season’s WPT National schedule includes stops in three different continents. The popular poker series has already visited a number of exciting destinations and the rest of the season promises to be just as thrilling.
Montesino Wien, a gambling venue located at the heart of the Austrian capital, will be the next to welcome the WPT National and players interested in taking part of the tour. Action has already started at the casino with satellites and warm-up events.
The WPT National has joined forces with online poker room partypoker to organize the Vienna festival. The partypoker WPT National €1,100 Main Event is scheduled to take place from October 19 to October 23. With that said, the tournament will feature two starting flights and three more days of play.
2016 Fall Deep Stack Series
The Fall Deep Stack Series will run from October 20-30. This eleven-day festival will attract players from Florida, the rest of the US, and why not international ones, as well, at Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, Florida.
The festival’s schedule includes six No-Limit Hold’em events, with those featuring prize pools of between $20,000 and $200,000. A four-day $350 No-Limit Hold’em with a guaranteed prize pool of $150,000 will kick off the festival. The Main Event will, too, take place over four days. It is set to begin on October 27 and will offer entries a chance to win a share of a guaranteed prize pool of $200,000.
Live 5 Hundred! October
The October edition of the Live 5 Hundred! event is set to take place on October 22 at Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover, Maryland. As usual, the event features a buy-in fee of $500 and a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000. It is also important to note that the tournament will be a bounty one, which means that entries will be able to boost their eventual winnings.
