Next Two Months Filled with Affordable Live EventsFrom California to Oklahoma, Tournaments Series Are Everywhere |
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In this golden day and age of tournament poker, there's no need to travel to places like Tunica, Mississippi, Elizabeth, Indiana or Mashantucket, Connecticut, to experience a fun, competitive, and professionally run poker tournaments.
There are now so many casinos in America that are running both weekly and tournament events that many people living in the U.S. who want to face live tournament competition only have to jump into their cars and hit the highways. And players don't have to have David Benyamine's bankroll to hit the road and see what's cooking in casinos everywhere.
The Tuesday after Thanksgiving, on Nov. 28, Cherokee Casino Resort in Catoosa, Oklahoma, kicks off the Reindeer Games Poker Tournament with a $120 no-limit tournament specifically for the ladies. The seven-event series climaxes with a $330 no-limit championship event on Sunday, Dec. 3.
Even those who would have to travel Canada's beautiful highways to get to the casinos have an option in coming weeks. The 2006 B.C. Poker Championship is set to start Monday, Nov. 20, with a $1,100 pot-limit O8B tournament. The three-day series ends on Thursday, Nov. 23, with a $2,700 no-limit hold'em event.
The 2006 Winter Pot of Gold, a 17-event series at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno, starts Dec. 8. Most of the events fall between the $120 and the $330 range, with the championship costing $1,560.
The Fourth Annual East Coast Poker Championship takes place at Turning Stone Casino and Resort in Verona, New York, Saturday, Nov. 25, with a $230 no-limit hold'em event. Each day thereafter, buy-ins go up, with Sunday's being a $300 buy-in, Monday $340, Tuesday $440, and so on until the series cumulates with its $1,070 championship on Saturday, Dec. 2.
The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles sure knows how to celebrate Thanksgiving. That's the day it kicks-off its 2006 Turkey Shoot/ Ho-Ho-Hold'em series, an 18-event series that's made up mostly of $200-to-$300 events that ends with its $1,080 championship event on Saturday, Dec. 9.
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