Tunica Is Poker Central These Next 10 DaysTwo Major Poker Events Overlap, Giving Players Many Choices |
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With two major poker events taking place, Tunica, Mississippi, has become the place to be for tournament poker in January.
The pot really begins to boil on Thursday when players find their seats for the $10,200 main event of the Gold Strike World Poker Open, which will be featured on the World Poker Tour.
CardPlayer.com will have full coverage of the World Poker Open, including live streaming video updates, hand and chip updates, live photos, and broadcast of its radio show, The Circuit.
The World Poker Open began Jan. 9, with a $540 no-limit hold'em event, but the monthlong celebration of tournament poker in Tunica started Jan. 5, when the $550 no-limit hold'em tournament kicked off the Jack Binion World Series of Poker Circuit at the Grand Casino Tunica.
The Jack Binion WSOP Tournament Circuit ends with its $10,000-buy-in no-limit hold'em event Jan. 24. The World Poker Open starts its final event this Saturday with the $340-buy-in ladies no-limit hold'em event, but the main event is scheduled to last until Monday, Jan. 23.
With two overlapping poker events going on at the same time, ambitious players had the choice to play in 45 tournaments. It seemed the casinos did their best to avoid scheduling conflicts. Never did competing tournaments start at the same time and whenever an event with the same size buy-in took place at noon at the Grand Tunica Casino, the Gold Strike would start its at 7:15 p.m.
The early start times seemed to bring more players to the Grand Casino Tunica. For example, a $550-buy-in no-limit hold'em event that started at 2 p.m. at Grand Casino Tunica on Jan. 11, attracted 671 players and lasted two days. The $540 no-limit hold'em event at the Gold Strike that started that evening attracted 260 players.
The Jack Binion WSOP Tournament has more variety of poker games, such as its $3,100 H.O.R.S.E. event that is scheduled for Jan. 21, and the $2,080 no-limit hold'em short-handed event Jan. 20. Seven-card stud, Omaha high-low 8-or-better, and a no-limit hold'em shootout tournaments also appear on its schedule.
Those whose poker game begins and ends with no-limit Texas hold'em should have checked into the Gold Strike for a month. Every event at the World Poker Open is a no-limit hold'em event.
The Gold Strike is giving players who thrive on the $500-buy-in events a small break, though. Instead of charging a $50 fee to play, the Gold Strike is charging $40, which is $10 cheaper than what the folks at Grand Casino Tunica charge for the same tournament.
The Grand Casino Tunica made up for this by not charging a fee to the players who enter its main event for $10,000. The main event at the World Poker Open also costs $10,000, plus a $200 fee.
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