Hollywood Poker Open Continues to Grow
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It is now the third season of play for the Hollywood Poker Open and if today's turnout is any indication they are set to smash all the records they set in Season 2. With a player-friendly structure (one hour levels and slow blind escalations) and a great tournament staff, the HPO is emerging as one of the best poker tours out there.
In addition to this weekends stop here in Lawrenceburg, the HPO has scheduled seven additional events including a new one at the Hollywood Casino Toledo in early February. Each stop will include a Regional Main Event as well as side events and qualifiers. Last season, the HPO sent more than 200 promotional winners to the Championship Event at the M Resort in Las Vegas, an event that would more than triple the guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. HPO Tournament Director Bill Bruce says the plan is the same in Season 3.
"We plan to not only give away hundreds of seats to the Championship again, but we will also implement similar seat winner promotions to the Regional tournament series as well," said Bruce, who has served as the HPO director since the tour's inception. "These HPO tournament fields are such a great mix of traveling poker professionals and local promotion winners which makes the tournaments really attractive to all levels of poker players."
For more information on everything concerning the HPO, check out their website.