by mary ashton
Thursday ,16 Dec 2010
Over the coming month there’s a multitude of great poker events taking place across the Northeast of America with opportunities to with thousands of dollars.
It’s the last month of the year and with it comes a huge range of exciting poker in the Northeast of America. There are loads of tournaments taking place which could give you the chance to win some extra cash before Christmas.
First of all at the WPT World Poker Room at Foxwoods there is the famous Mega Stack Challenge comprising of 104 poker tables and round the clock play. It is the largest poker room on the east coast and the Mega Stack Challenge XVIII should keep the room full for the six events scheduled between December 4th and 12th. All the events come with loads of starting chips and have guaranteed prize pools starting at $10.000, the buy-ins range from $120 to $1,100. The main event has a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000 as does a $230 re-entry event so there is loads of opportunities to win big.
Then there is the continuation of the WSOP circuit which will next be stopping at Harrah’s Atlantic City. The event starts on December 4th and will continue until the 22nd and there are a total of 25 events taking place. There is the $1,600 Main Event and the $10,000 Regional Championship. There is always a great atmosphere at Atlantic City and the event is normally packed with players, also, if you are hoping to get into a big money game then there are loads of satellites which will give you the chance to enter cheap.
Next up is the Borgata December Mini Series at the East Coast’s premier poker venue. In fact the Borgata is one of the best places in the world to play poker. This is the first time that they are running a December Mini Series and it will take place from the 10th until the 19th. There will be ten events starting as low as $200 up to the $1,650 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em.
Finally there are a series of super satellites being run at the Mohegan Sun poker room in Uncasville which will give you the chance to win a place at their big $1,650 satellite to the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on December the 19th. The super satellites will be taking place on December 6th, 7th, 13th and 14th. The satellite on the 19th has a 10,000 chip starting stack and 30 minutes levels. One out of every ten will win the package to the 2011 PCE which includes entrance to the main event, accommodation and spending money.