Tuesday morning at 11am will see the debut of a totally new tournament in a Playground Poker Classic festival – it’s a relatively large buy-in event ($1,000 + $100), but on a compact, one-day schedule.
The small buy-in, multi-day tournaments like The Wild $150 and The $250 Frenzy are a great way for recreational players to have the entire experience of a big poker event but for an accessible buy-in – and they’ll be a key part of festivals at Playground for a long time to come.
In a long festival like the Fall Classic, though, it’s important to concentrate on the whole player population, a good portion of whom make their living playing this amazing game. For these players, we have heard the request loud and clear – more compact formats are always welcome.
In fact it’s becoming a bit of a trend in the game in the last year or so – to put together tournaments that are big enough to have amazing prize pools but take a lot less time than a full-blown Main Event to play through to a winner. We see this trend with the super high-rollers, which are often 3- or even 2-day events.
So join us tomorrow at 11am for what we’re calling, informally, the “1 Day 1K”. Late registration is open for 6 30-minute levels, and as always late registrants will start with a full T25K stack. You can also download the full tournament rules and structure in PDF format.
See you at 11!
