Monday, December 26th: Finishing The Year Off Strong

The holidays are now wrapping up, and while focus now turns to New Years Eve and turning the page on 2016, there are a few days of poker remaining before that happens.  The schedule may have been a little light yesterday because of Christmas, but things are going to be busy today, with a $130 No Limit Hold'em ($20,000) tournament headlining the slate.  This same tournament was run earlier in the month (12/12/16), and ended up attracting (269) total entries, which in turn built a prize pool well over $26,000.  Oleg Vayman (Brooklyn, NY) was declared the tournament winner after receiving first place money in an eight-way chop ($4,174).

Just like the three (December) Mondays that came before this, the "Turbo High Hand" promotion gets things started for the day (9:00am-12:00pm).  And while the evening tournament is the highlight, there is an afternoon tournament that begins at 11:00am.

11:00am - $80 No Limit Hold'em w/ $10 Bounties $2,000 GTD

- Players will begin with a 10,000 starting stack

- Late and re-entries for the first (8) levels

- Option player "add-on" at the end of Level 8 ($20 for 8,000 tournament chips), with 100% of the "add-on" going to the prize pool 

- Levels are (20) minutes in length

6:00pm - $130 No Limit Hold'em  $20,000 GTD

- Players will begin with a 18,000 starting stack

- Late and re-entries for the first (12) levels

- Alternates and late entries will start with a full stack

- Levels are (20) minutes in length