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Macau High Stakes Challenge: An innovative concept and a very interesting field
The Macau High Stakes Challenge is a Super High Roller poker tournament accessible for a huge buy-in of HK $ 2,000,000, an enormous amount equal to $ 257,000, with one rebuy. This will be an exceptional tournament especially as the organizers decided to adopt a new concept to make the event more interesting. In this context, competitors can enable the re-buy early, that is to say, during the first four levels of play and will have 100,000 chips to start. The turbo structure which principle is to increase the blinds every half hour will be also applied. With such a concept, the tournament could be completed in one day. Note that the field has been limited to 80 participants, which will generate a total prize pool of $ 22.5 million. And according to the organizers, it remain about ten places available, which already proves that the super High Roller Turbo of Macau will have a huge success.
Asian businessmen and professionals such as Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Joe Hachem, John Juanda, Sam Trickett, Andrew Robl and Johnny Chan will be present in the poker room of StarWorld Casino, Poker King Club. Philipp Gruissem and Igor Kurganov also plan to take part in the tournament. The event promises to be very interesting. Indeed, the winner will walk away with a big prize amounting $ 5.6 million. After the Main Event of the World Series of Poker, the Big One For One Drop and some other tournaments, this rendezvous in Asia is added to the number of tournaments with an exorbitant prize pool.
Source: James WILLIAMS
Thursday, 30 August 2012
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