Card Player Poker Tour Los Angeles Swing Begins September 21

One year has passed since the Card Player Poker Tour awarded more than $2.3 million to poker players across Los Angeles. Action this year begins Sept. 21 when the first tournament of the 2015 CPPT Los Angeles swing gets underway at the Bicycle Casino. Action will continue until Oct. 25 when the main event wraps up at Hollywood Park Casino.

More than $750,000 was awarded in the main events alone the previous time around and even more is expected in 2015.

In all, the Bicycle series will feature 19 tournaments, including a six-day $235 no-limit hold’em $200,000 guarantee and a seven-day $235 no-limit hold’em $300,000 guarantee. The schedule also features no-limit hold’em deepstack and bounty tournaments and non-hold’em events including H.O.R.S.E and Omaha eight-or-better.

The marquee event of the series is the $1,100 no-limit hold’em $500,000 estimated guarantee main event using the Bike’s own Quantum Reload concept.

Players will have the option to buy-in directly for $1,100 on any of the three starting days, but those who wish to skip day 1 altogether can buy directly into day 2 for $4,300. Players that choose the latter option will begin with 60 big blinds with blinds at 1,000-2,000. There will be no-late entry on day 2, however players who are eliminated on any day 1 may re-enter the following day.

Each of the main event’s three starting days and day 2 will begin at 12 pm. The final day will begin at 2 pm and the final table will be streamed on Live at the Bike.

Hosting its second CPPT event, Hollywood Park Casino has upped the ante. Tournaments at the LAX-area casino will be more plentiful and feature larger prizepools this time around. Nearly doubling the schedule from seven events in 2014 to thirteen events in 2015, HPC also increased the buy-in for the main event to $500 and the guaranteed prizepool to $150,000. The series will feature an Omaha hi-low tournament and no-limit hold’em bounty tournaments, another change from 2014.

Play will begin Oct. 16 with a $160 no-limit hold’em $15,000 guarantee tournament and finish with the $500 no-limit hold’em $150,000 guarantee main event Oct. 22-25.

The main event will consist of three starting days with 30-minute levels beginning at 12pm. Day 2 will begin at 2pm and feature 40-minute levels until the final table is reached. The final table will play out on the same day, however levels will increase to 60 minutes. Players will begin with 30,000 in tournament chips and can re-enter or register until the beginning of level 9. Each day one will end when only 10 percent of the field remains, meaning all day 2 players will be in the money. Levels on day 2 will begin at the earliest ending level of the day ones. Players may also qualify up to three times and combine their chips.

CPPT Bicycle Casino 2014 Final Table Results

CPPT Hollywood Park Final 2014 Table Results

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