Several major tournaments are scheduled to start this week. Horseshoe Cincinnati will play host to the Labor Day $500K Deepstack Poker festival, Commerce Casino in California will feature a number of exciting events with large prize pools, and Pala Casino Spa & Resort together with the WPT Foundation will host a special charity event. More information could be found below.
2015 Labor Day $500K Deepstack Poker Tournament
Horseshoe Cincinnati, one of Ohio’s four casinos, will play host to the seven-day tournament, organized to celebrate the United States’ Labor Day. It will take place from September 1 to September 7 and will feature 5 No-Limit Hold’em events and a Pot-Limit Omaha one. The buy-in fees for those vary from $300 to $1,500 for the Main Event.
Excluding the Main Event, the No-Limit Hold’em ones feature guaranteed prize pools of $25,000. The Pot-Limit Omaha gives players the chance to win their share of the $50,000 guaranteed prize pool. As for the four-day Main Event, which is scheduled to kick off on September 4, it features a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000.
2015 Commerce Poker Series
This tournament will take place at Commerce Casino in Commerce, California between September 2-20. Players will have the chance to enter a total of 10 No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha events. The buy-ins for those vary from $75 to $1,650 for the three-day Main Event with a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000.
In fact, the Main Event will not be the only one to feature such a prize pool. The four-day $1,100 No-Limit Hold’em one guarantees that same amount of money to entries. This one is scheduled to begin on September 10. As for the Main Event, it is to kick off on September 18.
2015 HPT – Golden Gates Casino
The Heartland Poker Tour’s next stop will be Golden Gates Casino in Black Hawk, Colorado. The tournament will start on September 4 and will run through September 14. It will feature 3 one-day No-Limit Hold’em events and a six-day Main Event. The buy-in fee for the first two of those is $160. Players will have to pay $1,650 in order to enter the Main Event, which is to start on September 9, and $200 for the last one on the tournament’s schedule.
2015 WPT Foundation Series – Pala Poker Open
The WPT Foundation and Pala Casino Spa & Resort in Pala, California have partnered to hold this charity tournament. It will take place between September 4-13 and will include 8 No-Limit Hold’em and Pot-Limit Omaha events.
The three-day WPT Foundation Pala Poker Open with a buy-in fee of $1,100 and a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000 is to start on September 11. Here it is important to note that $100 of each entry’s buy-in will be donated to Special Olympics Southern California, known to be an organization for people with intellectual disabilities.
The buy-ins for the other events start from $100 to $230.
CPPT III – Card Player Cruises
This tournament will take place aboard Royal Caribbean’s Oasis and will be part of a seven-day Card Player Eastern Caribbean Cruise. The tournament will start on September 5 and will run through September 12. It will feature as many as 13 No-Limit Hold’em and Omaha events with buy-in fees from $80 to $1,100 for the four-day Main Event, which will start on September 7.
