World Poker Tour -- First Midwest Event Will Take Place in March

The World Poker Tour will stage its first event in the Midwest this March at the Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana. The $10,000 WPT no-limit hold’em championship will take place on Mar. 20-24. It will be just one of 28 evens on the schedule for the inaugural Hollywood Poker Open.

Preliminary events will spread no-limit and limit hold’em, seven-card stud, seven-card stud eight-or-better, Omaha eight-or-better, and pot-limit Omaha. There will also be no-limit hold’em events for ladies (Mar. 6) and seniors (Mar. 7 and 17). You can check out the full preliminary schedule on the tournament’s landing page.

The final table will be filmed for television broadcast on Fox Sports Net, and it begins at 4 p.m. on Mar. 24 (free seating for fans begins at 3 p.m.). The television episodes for the event will appear on consecutive Sundays (June 20 and June 27) as a part of FSN’s airing of the WPT’s season VIII schedule.

Here is the full schedule for the no-limit hold’em championship event:

Saturday, Mar. 20: Day 1
Sunday, Mar. 21: Day 2
Monday, Mar. 22: Day 3
Tuesday, Mar. 23: Day 4
Wednesday, Mar. 24: Final Table

About Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg: Hollywood Casino is a Penn National Gaming property located on the Ohio River in the City of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, just off I-275, less than 30 minutes from Cincinnati. A new, state-of the art casino floor, opened June 2009, features 3,300 slot machines and 90 table games, including a 41-table World Poker Tour® poker room. The property includes a 300-room hotel and multiple dining options. On-site parking is available for up to 4,000 vehicles.

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