The Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Ind., is stepping up its poker game, hosting the inaugural Hollywood Poker Open regional event Nov. 8-18, including a chance to play in the $500K guarantee championship at the M Resort in Las Vegas on June 28-30.
The regional at Lawrenceburg will have a $10K guarantee event ($150 buy-in) Nov 7, as well as an unprecedented four-event re-entry deepstack NLHE tournament with events 1A and 1B on Nov. 8, and events 1C and 1D on Nov. 9 starting 12:15 p.m. and 7:15 p.m., respectively. This $200K guarantee concludes Nov. 10.
From the $235 50-and-older (Nov. 11, 10 a.m.), the $235 ladies event (Nov. 12, 10 a.m.), a $235 pot-limit Omaha (Nov. 12, 7 p.m.), a $345 Bounty ($100, Nov. 13, 11:15 a.m.), a $235 six-max (Nov. 14, 11:15 a.m.), and each nightly cash tournament at 7:15, one seat will be added to the HPO $550 two-day main event on Nov. 15.
And you won’t have to walk far for cash games as the poker room has moved upstairs to provide a more suitable surrounding to showcase the legendary poker room action. Tournament events will be in the ballroom downstairs near the old poker-room location, and acting poker room manager Brad Hinson said there will be a lot of exciting promotions.
There will be six $200 no-limit hold’em mega satellites during the series where one in 25 entrants will win a $2,500 seat to the $500K HPO championship event, plus $1,500 for travel expenses.
Check out hollywoodpokeropen.com.
— R.C. Thorne is Ante Up’s Southern Indiana Ambassador. Email him at anteuprc@gmail.com.
WSOPC, Horseshoe Southern Indiana, Sept. 27-Oct. 8
Event 1 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 265 • Pool: $79,500
Justin Cox, $19,147
Event 2 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 768 • Pool: $229,050
Patricia Till, $45,810
Event 3 • $580 NLHE
Entries: 149 • Pool: $74,500
John Gallaher, $20,482
Event 4 • $365 6-Max
Entries: 207 • Pool: $62,100
Chris Karambinis, $15,795
Event 5 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 123 • Pool: $36,900
Scott Carroll, $9,954
Event 6 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 225 • Pool: $67,500
James Sloat, $16,538
Event 7 • $365 PLO
Entries: 106 • Pool: $30,450
Cory Zbinden, $9,135
Event 8 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 246 • Pool: $72,450
John Taitt, $17,751
Event 9 • $580 NLHE
Entries: 175 • Pool: $86,150
Michael Reed, $23,261
Event 10 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 196 • Pool: $58,800
Aaron Massey, $15,288
$1,675 Main Event
Entries:340 • Pool: $510,000
Dan Heimiller, $117,300
Event 12 • $365 NLHE
Entries: 102 • Pool: $30,600
Trevor Deeter, $10,098