Strip Poker: Caesars to Run Mega Stack Series in June

In this "Strip Poker" series, Card Player covers the Las Vegas poker scene — on The Strip and around the city.

The largest poker room in Las Vegas is inside Caesars Palace, and this summer, the poker room is running its first-ever Mega Stack Series, running June 1-July 9.

Competing against the draw of World Series of Poker events, the Mega Stack Series is looking to attract players who want smaller buy-in events with a major tournament feel. All 38 preliminary events have buy-ins that range from $200 to $500 and feature deep starting stacks.

“Players are going to get more value for the dollar than they will find at any of our competitors’ rooms,” said Poker Room Manager Jim Pedulla. “They are going to get huge starting stacks and a great structure that gives them more time to play. Also, our poker room has the ability to host 600 players plus alternates all in the same room, so no one will have to feel segregated from the tournament.”

Registration begins at 10 a.m., and the events begin at noon. All preliminaries feature 50-minute blind levels. Most events are open no-limit hold’em tournaments, but the series also includes an Omaha eight-or-better event, a pot-limit Omaha event, a limit hold’em event, and a seniors event.

The series will culminate with a $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em Mega Championship, which begins July 7. Players will start with 25,000 in starting chips and have 60-miniute blind levels.

“We are very excited, and our staff is ready to serve the players. We think the Mega Stack Series is going to be the talk around town this year,” said Pedulla.

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