Live Tournament Poker -- April Preview

Although April is just beginning, a number of major live poker events are already under way across the globe. Tournaments from the World Series of Poker Circuit, World Poker Tour, Asian Poker Tour and Heartland Poker Tour started in late March and will conclude in the coming days.

Some of the largest events in progress will finish this Sunday. Among those are the World Poker Tour’s €2,500 main event in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the annual Asian Poker Tour Philippines $2,500 main event inside the Resorts World Manila complex. The Heartland Poker Tour has been holding numerous main event qualifiers in recent weeks inside Iowa’s Meskwaki Casino. The $1,500 main event kicks off tomorrow and will also play out its televised final table on Sunday.

The WSOP Circuit event at Harrah’s St. Louis started on Thursday and will run through April 12, when the $1,600 main event final table is set to take place.

The duration of the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II will pretty much take up the entire month of April. Running today through April 27, the series is highlighted by the $1,590 main event.

The North American Poker Tour will take over Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun from April 5-15. The highest priced NAPT events are the $5,000 main event (April 9) and the $10,000 high roller shootout (April 12). At that same time, the WPT will be in Lawrenceburg, Indiana’s Hollywood Casino for the $10,000 Hollywood Poker Open main event, April 9-13.

The European Poker Tour returns in April, with a €5,300 main event inside Berlin, Germany’s largest casino, Spielbank Berlin, from April 5-10. The Borgata Spring Poker Open will be back in City from April 13-29. At the tail end of that schedule is a $2,500 buy-in championship event, running April 24-27.

Two more WSOP Circuit stops are also on the horizon. A visit to Caesars Palace Las Vegas will run April 14-30, with a $1,500 main event starting April 28. A day before that main event, the WSOP Circuit will begin a separate series of tournaments at Harrah’s Chester in Pennsylvania. The latter series will conclude with a $1,600 main event starting on May 8.

The last major tournament to get under way in April is the $10,000 WPT championship at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida from April 27 – May 2.

Here is a quick look at the April highlights:

March 27 – April 3: HPT Meskwaki Bingo Casino (Tama, IA)
Highlights: $1,500 NLHE Main Event (April 2)

March 31 – April 12: WSOP Circuit – Harrah’s St. Louis (Maryland Heights, MO)
Highlights: $1,600 NLHE Main Event (April 10)

April 1 – April 27: Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza II (Vegas)
Highlights: $1,590 NLHE Main Event (April 25)

April 5 – April 15: NAPT Mohegan Sun (Uncasville, CT)
Highlights: $5,000 NLHE Main Event (April 9), $10,000 High Roller (April 12)

April 9 – April 13: WPT Hollywood Poker Open (Lawrenceburg, IN)
Highlights: $10,000 Main Event (April 9)

April 5 – April 10: EPT Berlin (Germany)
Highlights: €5,300 NLHE Main Event (April 5)

April 13 – April 29: Borgata Spring Poker Open (Atlantic City)
Highlights: $2,500 NLHE Main Event (April 24)

April 14 – April 30: WSOP Circuit – Caesars Palace (Vegas)
Highlights: $1,500 NLHE Main Event (April 28)

April 27 – May 3: WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown (Hollywood, FL)
Highlights: $10,000 NLHE Main Event (April 27)

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