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WPT Seminole Poker Showdown Smashes $2M Gtd on Day 1A

WPT Seminole Poker Showdown Smashes $2M Gtd on Day 1A
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WPT Spring Festival Overlays Big, Awards ~$270K to Winner

Sizable Overlay Shouldered Over the course of three starting days, the tournament drew 3,505 entries for the ¥2,000 (~$300) price point. While that number looks pretty solid at first glance, it was well below what was needed to meet the guarantee, which would have been in excess of 5,000 depending on the rake structure. That means the operators had to shoulder a hefty overlay of around $460,000. PokerNews inquired as to whether the overlay was an expected marketing expense for a new event. WPT and Poker King are committed to bringing large guaranteed events to their player base, and we anticipate more of these types of events from us in the future, said WPT Vice President, Global Tour Management

From immigration cage to newest poker champ at Hard Rock An Afghan refugee s luck turns

From immigration cage to newest poker champ at Hard Rock. An Afghan refugee s luck turns Charles Rabin, Miami Herald © Joe Giron/Joe Giron Photography/TNS Ilyas Muradi, winner of the World Poker Tour’ s first post COVID-19 Texas Hold‘ em poker tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel& Casino earlier this week. MIAMI The hard luck life of a refugee from Afghanistan whose father was killed in a bombing there took a considerable turn recently because of a missed flight and a pair of cards. Ilyas Muradi, who just over a year ago was behind bars in solitary confinement after federal immigration agents determined his residency card had expired, waded through a field of more than 1,500 players to win the World Poker Tour s first post COVID-19 Texas Hold em poker tournament at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino earlier this week.

Huge Field Flocks to WPT Lucky Hearts for Return of Live Tournament Poker

Huge Field Flocks to WPT Lucky Hearts in Florida for Return of Live Tournament Poker 6 Min read In the first major live poker tournament in the US in nearly a year, a relatively unknown Ilyas Muradi took down the main event of the World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. For Muradi, it was a $620,000, life-changing score. For a poker community starved for major tournament action in the face of the coronavirus, the whole series was like a breath of fresh air. Plexiglass separators and mask requirements provided safety for competitors in the World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock in South Florida. (Image: WPT)

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