In this Card Player weekly feature we look to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming week. Check out all the tournament action set to go down in your own backyard from April 7th through the 13th. Head to our tournament database for more information.
FLORIDA
- The 2014 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown (Mar 27, ‘14 – Apr 16, ’14) Top-notch tournament poker action returns to the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood in Hollywood, Florida this week as a part of the World Poker Tour. The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown gets underway this week and continues through the first half of April, with the early highlight being a $1 million guaranteed $560 buy-in no-limit hold’em event that begins with the first of six starting flights at 11:00 AM on Mar. 27th. The $5 million guaranteed WPT main event begins on Apr. 10th.
NEVADA
- The 2014 Deepstack Extravaganza II (Mar 27, ‘14 – Apr 23, ’14) The Venetian Las Vegas’ 52-event Deepstack Extravaganza II tournament series continues this week, with the highlight of the coming days being a $150,000 guaranteed $600 buy-in tournament which begins with the first of two starting days at noon on Apr. 11th.
- The 2014 Senior Poker Tour Vegas Spring Classic (Apr 08, ‘14 – Apr 13, ’14) The Stratosphere Casino, Hotel & Tower in as Vegas will play host to the Senior Poker Tour this week, with the centerpiece of the whole affair being a $550 buy0in no-limit hold’em event which begins with the first of two starting days at 1:00 PM on Apr. 10th.
INTERNATIONAL
- The 2014 EPT San Remo (Apr 10, ‘14 – Apr 20, ’14) For the seventh stop of the tenth season of the European Poker Tour players will once again make their way to the stunning Casino Sanremo in Italy. The 43-event series will run over eleven days, with the early highlight being the €770 no-limit hold’em Italian Poker Tour main event which kicks off on April 9th with the first of three starting days. The €4,900 EPT main event will get underway next week, running from Apr. 14 – 20.
SOUTH
- The 2014 WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee (Apr 03, ‘14 – Apr 14, ’14) The World Series of Poker Circuit continues with it’s current stop at the Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina, with the highlight of the week being the $1,675 WSOP-C no-limit hold’em main event which gets underway at noon on Apr. 11th.
- The 2014 Spring Poker Series (Apr 03, ‘14 – Apr 13, ’14) The Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma is hosting it’s huge SPring Poker Series, which reaches it’s climax this week with the $300,000 guaranteed $1,100 no-limit hold’em main event which begins at noon on Apr. 12th.
WEST COAST
- The 2014 Spring Poker Round Up (Apr 10, ‘14 – Apr 20, ’14) Pendleton, Oregon’s Wildhorse Resort Casino hosts the latest running of it’s Spring Poker Round Up beginning later this week, with the highlight of the first weekend being a $215 buy-in no-limit hold’em shootout that begins at noon on Apr. 13th.
EAST COAST
- The" 2014 WPT World Championship":http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-tournaments/4437-2014-wpt-world-championship (Apr 08, ‘14 – Apr 26, ’14) For the first time in the history of the tour the WPT Championship will not be played at the Bellagio, but instead has moved to the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The $15,400 main even won’t take place until later this month, meanwhile the early highlight is a $1 million guaranteed $560 buy-in no-limit event that kicks off with the first of four starting flights at 11:00 AM local time on Apr. 8th.
- The 2014 Pittsburgh Poker Open Spring Series (Apr 10, ‘14 – Apr 21, ’14) The Rivers Casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will see it’s huge 24-event tournament series get underway later this week, with the early highlight being a $30,000 guaranteed $550 no-limit hold’em event beginning at noon on Apr. 12th.
MIDWEST
- The 2014 WSOP Circuit Council Bluffs (Apr 10, ‘14 – Apr 21, ’14) The Horseshoe Casino & Hotel-Council Bluffs in Iowa is the next stop on the final stretch of this season of the WSOP Circuit tour and it is set to kick off this week, with the early highlights being the kick off $365 buy-in no-limit hold’em event that begins at noon on Apr. 10th.
