Foxwoods Poker Classic Running Now Through March 23
Foxwoods Resort Casino®, the largest resort casino in North America, is hosting the annual Foxwoods Poker Classic, running now through March 23. The two week tournament attracts top fields of both professional and amateur poker players. Held in the largest poker room on the East Coast and spanning 16 days, this 22-event tournament will be highlighted by our March 21, three-day, $2,700 no-limit hold’em main event with a guaranteed prize pool of $400,000.
Last year’s Foxwoods Poker Classic had a total of 3,557 entries and paid out over $1.5 million in prize money, with the main event drawing 192 entries and a prize pool of $433,008. This year, Foxwoods added several guarantees to their events, totaling $1,000,000.
Foxwoods’ Poker Room boasts close to 100 tables in the sprawling main room featuring a variety of live-action games being spread around the clock. An additional 60 tournament tables are located in a separate tournament room offering weekly no-limit hold’em events with total payouts over $200,000 and guarantees totaling $55,000. Foxwoods is also associated with the World Series of Poker and will host satellites for the WSOP Main Event from June 1-14. To keep pace with Connecticut’s live event scene, the WSOP Circuit will be coming August 14-25, pairing big buy-ins with good structures that have been praised by many visiting pros.
For more information and results from the Foxwoods Poker Classic as well as other poker events happening at Foxwoods Resort Casino visit www.foxwoods.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
flop. Michael Campbell called him from early position, and the board tripped up with the 
. Cole bet 30,000, and Campbell called once more. Both players checked the 
river.
into the middle, and Campbell tabled 
to take the pot with a full house.
turn. His opponent immediately announced all in.
flop, Kou Vang bet out 8,200 from under the gun only to see Mark Sandness make it 21,300 from the cutoff. Vang three-bet to 53,200. Sandness responded by pushing all in, and Vang quickly called.
kept him in front. Sandness couldn't suck out on the 
of Olimpia May, and he went busto when May won the race.
, not enough for Hayes to overtake Schwertley's AA.
in front of him, and he said his opponent in the hand had been John Hayes, who held 
