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Ho Goes West


2008-02-07 13:23:22
By: Gene Bromberg

Don't get me wrong--they play poker in Las Vegas. Heck, they've got some pretty nice card rooms out there, like, oh, the Bellagio. Nice place.

But many people believe that the center of the poker universe is in Los Angeles, and that the greatest temple to the game is the Commerce Casino. With 243 poker tables under it's roof (and an addition ONE HUNDRED TABLES in the works), Commerce is the biggest poker room in the world. L.A. cash-game players are known as the loosiest-goosiest on the planet, and Commerce is also home to one of the world's biggest tournament series--the L.A. Poker Classic.

The Main Event of the Classic is on the World Poker Tour, and if you'd like to play in it this year (it'll be held from February 23-28) there are three ways you can qualify here at UltimateBet:
  • You can play in our $30+3 Daily Qualifier, which is held at 8:30pm ET. You'll have a chance to win a $2,500 WPT Satellite package, which includes a $1,000 Mega-Satellite seat (the satellite is on February 22nd) and $1,480 for travel and accomodations.
  • Or, you can play in one of our six $20+2 Daily Qualifiers that are held throughout the day. Play in one of these and you can win a seat in our big $500+30 WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event Satellite's, which are held on Wednesday night at 8:30pm ET
  • And if you DO play in our Wednesday night Main Event Satellite, you can win a $12,000 package that includes your $10K seat in the Main Event and $2,000 for travel and accomodations.
UltimateBet pays out a package for every $12,000 in Main Event Satellite buy-ins, and last night we handed out packages to three players who survived a tough 83-player field to win their seat. One of those fortunate few was Team UltimateBet's Mark "P0ker H0" Kroon, who held the chip lead early on and bobbed and weaved his way down to the final few. Much of the heavy lifting was done by piscato77, who knocked out several players along the way and built up a comfortable chipstack that all but guaranteed him a seat in the Classic. "You're buying the first beer in LA" H0 said in chat, later amending that to the first TEN beers when piscato77 kept on wiping out other players.

In the end it was mikeivey who went out on the bubble, getting knocked out by jimjpie and having to settle for $2,750. So it'll be P0ker H0, jimjpie and piscato77 heading to L.A...and if you'd like to join them, UltimateBet gives you three ways to win.




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