The WSOP Circuit makes its way back to Harrah’s Cherokee for the second time this season. The series features over $1.3 million in guaranteed prizes.
Cherokee, N.C. (April 13, 2015) – The WSOP Circuit is returning to Harrah’s Cherokee for the second time this season and with it brings some hefty guarantees. There are three events at the series that will have guaranteed prize pools. The $365 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event has a $500,000 guarantee. The $250 senior’s event has a $100,000 guarantee, and the $1,675 Main Event has a whopping $750,000 guarantee. The participant turnouts at Harrah’s Cherokee have been strong since the Circuit has begun stopping there since 2013. The guarantees attached to these tournaments will ensure another strong turnout.
The first weekend of the series features the $500,000 guaranteed re-entry event. This $365 buy-in tournament features three starting flights and allow players unlimited re-entry. This event drew an impressive 1,930 entries earlier this season to become the largest tournament ever hosted by Harrah’s Cherokee. Karthik Ramakrishnan won the event and took home the first place prize of $91,166.
Another record to be broken at Harrah’s Cherokee earlier this season was the most entrants in a WSOP Circuit senior’s event. The senior’s event drew 829 entries back in December to become the largest WSOP Circuit senior’s event of all-time. Diana Dinsler won the record breaking tournament and turned her $250 buy-in into a $32,322 first place prize. The senior’s event begins at 10 a.m. on Sunday, April 19 and has a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. Players must be age 50 or older to participate.
The series will conclude with a $1,675 Main Event. The Main Event has a guaranteed prize pool of $750,000. The winner of the Main Event will also receive a seat in the 2015 National Championship. This season’s first Main Event winner at Harrah’s Cherokee was Jake Bazeley. Bazeley defeated a 797 player field to earn $239,096 and his first WSOP Circuit gold ring. This tournament, just like all WSOP Circuit Main Events, features two starting flights and allows players one re-entry.
Here is a look at the ring event schedule:
| Thurs, April 16, 12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em | $365 |
| Thurs, April 16, 5 p.m. | Pot-Limit Omaha | $365 |
| Fri, April 17, 12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em | $365 |
| Fri, April 17, 5 p.m. | No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Flight A) | $365 |
| Sat, April 18, 12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry (Flight B) | $365 |
| Sat, April 18, 5 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em Re-Entry (Flight C) | $365 |
| Sun, April 19, 3 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em | $365 |
| Mon, April 20, 12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed | $365 |
| Tue, April 21, 12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em | $365 |
| Wed, April 22, 12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em Monster Stack | $365 |
| Thurs, April 23,12 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em | $580 |
| Fri, April 24, 12 p.m. | Main Event Flight A | $1,675 |
| Sat, April 25, 12 p.m. | Main Event Flight B | $1,675 |
| Sat, April 25, 5 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em | $365 |
| Sun, April 26, 3 p.m. | No-Limit Hold'em Turbo | $365 |
Structure sheets for each event can be found on WSOP.com.
The property is offering several satellites for players to earn a seat into the Main Event. There will be six separate mega satellites running from Thursday, April 23 – Saturday, April 25. These six mega satellites all have buy-ins of $250 and will award one seat to the Main Event and $25 in cash for every $1,700 in the prize pool. More information on the dates and times of the satellites can be found in the link above. There will also be single table satellites running throughout the entire series. These satellites feature a buy-in range of $50 all the way up to $200. These satellites will payout the entirety of the prize pool to the first place finisher in cash.
Event #8 of this series is a $365 No-Limit Hold'em Monster Stack tournament. This tournament will follow the same structure as the other $365 buy-in events, except that players will start with a twice as large chip stack. Instead of the standard 10,000 starting stack, players will begin the monster stack event with 20,000 in chips. More chip equals more play.
It has just recently been announced that the 2015 National Championship will be hosted by Harrah’s Cherokee. This is partially due to the recent success the property has found in its WSOP events. The National Championship begins July 29. It features a guaranteed prize pool of $1 million and will award a gold Bracelet to the winner.
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