April is WPT and WSOP Tournament Poker Month in Las Vegas
The Bellagio dancing fountains entertains the crowd on the veranda outside the poker tournament.
Two major poker tournaments are on their way to Las Vegas for an April 5 start of the Bellagio Five Star World Poker Classic that continues through April 26. Two days later on April 28, the World Series of Poker Circuit stops at the new poker facility at Caesars Palace. This kind of scheduling makes it easy for the poker party to continue almost uninterrupted next door at Caesars Palace for more major tournament poker action through May 11. This kind of marathon scheduling will make April a most interesting month in Las Vegas.
The WPT sanctioned final event at the Bellagio runs April 18-24 and it is the big one. This is the WPT Championship Event for the season. The buy-in is $25,500 with upwards of 600 entrants expected to enter. The prize pool could easily top out at $15 million or more. All the greats of the game will be at the Bellagio for this special event. Last year's champion, Tuan Le, will be on hand to defend his title along with most of the pro poker crowd. The event is expected to set a new prize pool and pay out record with the winner receiving more than three million dollars. It could be you hauling out the big bucks and poker's newest star player; but, you'll have to show up at the Bellagio with the $25.5K ticket in hand and take your seat.
The poker tournament area at Caesars Palace.
The World Series of Poker Circuit will be the first major poker tournament for the new Caesars Palace Poker facility. I know the NBC Heads-Up national Championship was major nut it was also by invitation and limited to 64 entrants. The WSOP Circuit events will draw thousands of poker playing hopefuls. The final event of the tournament is a WSOP trademark $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold'em Championship. This is the inaugural for this WSOPC series stop at Caesars Palace and I'm looking forward to hanging out at the state-of-the-art tournament poker facility located center strip. This is another warm up for the coming 2006 WSOP at the Rio Resort. Rumors are floating about that additional first day tables for the main event could be set up at the Caesars poker facility has the potential to push the increase the number of entrants higher than the currently assumed 8800 cap.
Happy Friday
Caesars Palace occupies one of the worlds most valuable corners.