The Commerce Casino of California is no stranger to quality poker gaming. The casino often hosts major events including the ever-popular L.A. Poker Classic. This poker festival is attended by amateur as well as professional poker players who seek to take down a major event. For 2017, the festival began on the 15th of January and will continue until the 3rd of March. This weekend, the Commerce Casino is preparing for the much anticipated Main Event of the series.
The Main Event is a $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament that will begin this Saturday at noon. The tournament will offer 30,000 in starting chips and will start with blinds in the 50/100 range. Registration for the event will remain in place until the 10th level starts and will be nine-handed format. For the first eight levels of the event the time limit will be set for 60 minutes. After this point, levels will increase to 90 minute increments for day 2 and 3.
For Day 4 and 5, the levels will be lengthened to 120 minutes until the final table is named. Only six players will make the final table with redraws taking place at the end of each day of play along with milestones including when 27, 18 and 10 players remain.
As always, satellites have been on offer for players to earn a seat to the Main Event at a discounted price. There is still time for players to earn a seat via a satellite with buy-ins offered at $1,100. The mega satellites are set to offer 50 tickets to the main event, taking place tonight at 8pm, tomorrow at noon, 5pm and 8pm as well as Saturday at 4pm and 8pm.
The Commerce Casino will be hosting the 15th WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event this year with some of the best and brightest expected to be in attendance.
