London Calling: £1 Million Guaranteed London Poker Festival Starts January 30

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Aspers Casino in Stratford, London, is set to be packed to the rafters between January 30 and February 4 thanks to the £1 million guaranteed London Poker Festival. The team behind the successful Irish Poker Tour, Killarney Poker Festival, Irish Poker Tour London, and many other series is behind the London Poker Festival, which all but guarantees its success in the English capital.

At least £1 million will be awarded across the London Poker Festival, with every tournament, including satellites, featuring a guarantee on their prize pool. The largest of these guarantees tips the scales at an impressive £500,000, which is reserved for the £700 buy-in London Poker Festival Main Event.

London Poker Festival Schedule

DateTimeEventGuarantee
Tue 30 Jan12:00 p.m.£70 Mystery Bounty Satellite4 seats
 2:00 p.m.£500 Mystery Bounty Day 1A£100,000
 7:00 p.m.£150 London Festival Opener£10,000
Wed 31 Jan12:00 p.m.£70 Mystery Bounty Satellite4 seats
 2:00 p.m.£500 Mystery Bounty Day 1B£100,000
 3:00 p.m.£100 Main Event Super Satellite5 seats
 6:00 p.m.£700 London Main Event Day 1A£500,000
 7:00 p.m.£200 London Omaha Championship Satellite2 seats
 8:00 p.m.£150 No-Limit Hold'em£5,000
Thu 1 Feb11:00 a.m.£200 London Omaha Championship Satellite2 seats
 12:00 p.m.Mystery Bounty Final£100,000
 12:30 p.m.£100 Main Event Super Satellite5 seats
 1:00 p.m.£700 London Main Event Day 1B£500,000
 2:00 p.m.£1,650 London Omaha Championship 7-Max Day 1£75,000
 3:00 p.m.£100 Main Event Super Satellite5 seats
 6:00 p.m.£700 London Main Event Day 1C£500,000
 8:00 p.m.£150 £1K One Day Satellite Turbi2 seats
Fri 2 Feb11:00 a.m.£150 £1K One Day Satellite Turbo2 seats
 12:00 p.m.£700 London Main Event Day 1D£500,000
 1:00 p.m.London Omaha Championship 7-Max Final£75,000
 1:00 p.m.£100 Main Event Super Satellite5 seats
 2:00 p.m.£1,000 £1K One Dayer£40,000
 4:00 p.m.£700 London Main Event Day 1E£500,000
 6:00 p.m.£300 Omaha 7-Max 4/5 Card£10,000
 8:00 p.m.£150 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo£5,000
 9:00 p.m.£250 High Roller Satellite Fast2 seats
Sat 3 Feb11:00 a.m.£700 London Main Event Day 1F Fast£500,000
 1:00 p.m.£250 High Roller Mega Satellite5 seats
 2:00 p.m.£250 The London 250£40,000
 5:00 p.m.£250 High Roller Satellite3 seats
 7:00 p.m.£2,000 High Roller£125,000
 7:00 p.m.£300 Omaha 7-Max£10,000
 9:00 p.m.£150 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo Freezeout£5,000
Sun 4 Feb11:00 a.m.£70 London Cup Super Satellite5 seats
 12:00 p.m.London Main Event Final£500,000
 1:00 p.m.£2,000 High Roller Final£125,000
 1:00 p.m.£200 London Women's Championship£4,000
 2:00 p.m.£500 London Poker Cup£50,000
 6:00 p.m.£300 Omaha 7-Max£10,000
 8:00 p.m.£150 Last Chance Turbo£5,000

A £500 buy-in, £100,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty tournament raises the curtain on the London Poker Festival at 2:00 p.m. GMT on January 30. Later that day, at 7:00 p.m. GMT, the one-day £150 London Festival Opener awards not a penny less than £10,000.

The £700 buy-in London Poker Festival Main Event is the tournament everyone heading to Aspers Casino wants to win, not least because the prize pool is guaranteed to payout half a million British pounds!

The £500,000 guaranteed Main Event has five starting flights, including a turbo-structured Day 1F. Main Event players receive a 40,000 starting stack and play to 30-minute levels on each Day 1, except Day 1F, which has a 12-minute clock. Fifteen levels are scheduled on each flight, with one re-entry permitted before the end of the ninth level.

LevelSmall BlindBig BlindBig Blind Ante
1100100100
2100200200
3100300300
4200400400
5200500500
6300600600
7400800800
85001,0001,000
96001,2001,200
108001,6001,600
111,0002,0002,000
121,2002,4002,400
131,5003,0003,000
142,0004,0004,000
152,5005,0005,000

Although, naturally, most of the London Poker Festival tournaments are No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha lovers have a handful of events featuring their favorite discipline. The largest of these is the 7-Max London Omaha Championship, a £1,650 behemoth of a PLO event with a £75,000 guarantee slapped on its prize pool.

Derek Baker Crowned Champion in Irish Poker Tour's Galway Poker Festival Main Event (€83,500)

Satellites Galore for the London Poker Festival

Of course, buy-ins of £700 for the Main Event, and £1,650 for the Omaha Championship could be outside the constraints of some players' bankrolls, which is why there are several live satellites running throughout the London Poker Festival.

In addition, PartyPoker is running satellites where two £2,400 London Poker Festival packages are guaranteed. Those packages award:

  • £500 Mystery Bounty ticket
  • £700 Main Event ticket
  • Five nights at the Hyatt Regency Hotel worth £1,000
  • £200 credited to your PartyPoker account to help with costs

Those PartyPoker satellites use the online poker giant's "phase" system, where you can buy into any phase you wish except the final. Phases come in buy-ins of £2.20, £11, and £55; progress from the £55 buy-in phase and you take your chips through with you to the final.

The last of those finals takes place at 9:00 p.m. GMT on January 21, so time is of the essence if you want to win your way to the London Poker Festival for as little as £2.20.

Last week's final awarded three packages. Ireland's Morgan McGlew, Finland's Tero Maaranen, and Byron Borburg of the United Kingdom each secured a £2,400 package. Fourth place finisher, Alexandru Cristian Munteanu bubbled a package but still took home £990 for his efforts.

Stay locked and loaded to PokerNews throughout the London Poker Festival to discover who wins big at Aspers Casino Stratford in the coming weeks.

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