Foxwoods Resort Casino, the largest resort casino in North America, is hosting the annual Foxwoods Poker Classic from March 14-30. The two-week tournament will attract top fields of both professional and amateur poker players, so you don't want to miss out!
Held in the largest poker room on the East Coast and spanning 17 days, this 21-event series will be highlighted by a $600 No-Limit Hold’em event, which will feature a $500,000 guarantee; and a $2,700 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, which will also feature a $500,000 guarantee.
Last year’s Foxwoods Poker Classic had a total of 4,458 entries and paid out over $2.1 million in prize money, with the Main Event drawing 226 entries and a prize pool of over $548,000. This year, Foxwoods added several increased guarantees to their events, totaling $1,600,000.
Foxwoods Poker Room boasts close to 100 tables in the sprawling main room featuring a variety of live-action games that are 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 over $70,000. Foxwoods is also associated with the World Series of Poker and will host a WSOP Circuit event beginning May 13-24, so mark your calendar. In addition, Foxwoods will also offer satellites for the WSOP Main Event from June 1-14.
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, like Foxwoods on Facebook, and follow Foxwoods on Twitter.
Danny Dang bet 50,000 on an flop from the button in what looked to be a three-bet pot, and his opponent took a couple of minutes before shoving all in.
"How much to me?" Dang said. Informed it was 67,200, he called immediately.
Dang:
Opponent:
Dang saw he was facing a mere gutter, and the turn and river kept his top-top best.
After an early open and a shove from the player in the cutoff for about 27,000, Svetlana Martie woke up with an all in shove in the blinds, folding out the opener.
David Mathews checked from under the gun on a flop and called 5,500 from Reza Yazdi, who was in middle position. Yazdi fired again when checked to for 11,000 on the turn, and Mathews checked again on the river. Yazdi bet a final time for 21,000, and Mathews verbalized a call. Yazdi flicked his cards into the muck. Mathews declined to show.