Poker King Cup Macau 2017 High Roller Ready to Roll
Greetings poker fans and welcome to the PokerNews live coverage of the Poker King Cup Macau 2017 brought to you from the Poker King poker room at the Venetian Macau.
The nine-day festival boasts 12 action-packed events – which you can find the full schedule for on the Poker King Club website or on PokerNews – with the highlight being the HK$16,500 (~US$2,120) Poker King Cup Macau Main Event, which features a massive HK$5 million guaranteed prize pool.
With three opening Day 1 flights running from May 21-23 there is a further three days of poker action to follow when all surviving players from the three flights return to battle it out for the hallowed money spots from May 24-26 until a champion is crowned.
Also on the schedule is the HK$8,000 Poker King Cup Warm-Up, which features an HK$1 million guaranteed prize pool. Players will begin action on two opening days on May 19 and May 20. Surviving players will compete for the title on May 21.
Running at the same time as the Warm-Up will be the two-day HK$80,000 Poker King Cup High Roller on May 19-20. Other events on the schedule include the one-day HK$3,000 Poker King Cup Queens Event on May 23 and the two-day HK$20,000 Poker King Cup King Size Stack on May 25-26.
The PokerNews Live Reporting Team will report the biggest hands from start to finish for both the Poker King Cup Main Event and the Poker King Cup High Roller.
All the Poker King Cup events in this series are listed on the Global Poker Index (GPI), meaning competitors have an opportunity to earn valuable GPI Player of the Year points or just make their breakout on the world poker stage by taking down the Main Event.
However, today is for the High Rollers and we will be bringing you all the high-octane big buy-in tournament action from the two-day HK$80,000 Poker King Cup High Roller, which begins shortly at 2pm local time (GMT+7).
Players start with 50,000 in chips and have the option to re-enter should the cards not fall their way, and have 40-minute levels in which to use them, with antes coming into play from level 2 onwards with Day 1 finishing at the end of level 9.
Stay tuned as we bring you all the tournament thrills and spills as Macau’s High Rollers and visiting international poker professional’s battle it out at the baize for vast sums of cold hard cash and a chance at fortune and glory.