Venetian to Hold Poker Series during WSOPThe Deep Stack Extravaganza II Takes Place Entire Month of June |
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The Venetian in Las Vegas today announced that it will host a second installment of its successful Deep Stack Extravaganza tournament series this summer, giving poker players yet another tournament option this summer.
The Deep Stack Extravaganza II will take place from June 1 to July 1. It's the third tournament series that will take place during the months of June and July in Las Vegas. One hundred fourteen tournaments will be spread at the World Series of Poker (June 1 to July 17), the Bellagio Cup III (June 11 to July 13) and the Venetian's Deep Stack Extravaganza II.
The buy-ins for the events at the Deep Stack Extravaganza II cost $330, $540, and $1,060, making this series the most affordable out of the three. It also promises players plenty of play because the starting chips for all the events are doubled.
Kathy Raymond, the director of poker room operations at the Venetian, says she's not worried about having trouble filling her tournaments with players. She expects so many players that tournaments will be limited to either 350 or 400 players. (A decision has not yet been made.)
"I think everyone's going to have their own niche," she says.
The niches are fairly well defined. The WSOP is a whole animal unto itself. It's the most popular poker tournament in the world and its $50,000 H.O.R.S.E championship event has the second-highest buy-in of any tournament in the world. The Bellagio Cup III is an all-no-limit hold'em series that ends with its own $10,000 championship event. Both these series, of course, will run satellites around the clock.
With its reasonable buy-ins, and plenty of satellites, the Deep Stack Extravaganza II will most likely repeat the success of its first version that took place in February. That 19-event series attracted 4,600 entrants and generated a combined prize pool of over $1.6 million.
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