Gear Up for $1,000 Senior's No-Limit Hold’em Championship
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Today sees the start of Event #48: $1,000 Senior's No-Limit Hold’em Championship here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Entrants must be at least 50 years of age to participate.
The first of two starting flights of this five-day event gets underway at 10 a.m. local time, with late registration open until the start of Level 9 (about 8:15 p.m.). There will be 20-minute breaks every two levels, with a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 8 (~7:00 p.m.). The starting stack is 20,000 chips, with the plan for Day 1 to play 11 60-minute levels.
Players are permitted one reentry per flight and the second starting flight will begin at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Traditional PokerNews coverage of this event will begin with Day 2.
Day 2 resumes at 11 a.m. Wednesday for the surviving players and will close after ten more levels of play. Day 3 follows the same structure, while Day 4 plays down to the final five. Day 5 is the finale, where a winner will be crowned.
Last year's event saw Khang Pham win his first WSOP bracelet and $677,326.
"I should have got knocked out at the end of Day 3 but I ended up getting really lucky against a great player," Pham told PokerNews after his victory.
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7,954 | Khang Pham | United States | $677,326 |
| 2023 | 8,180 | Lonnie Hallett | Canada | $765,731 |
| 2022 | 7,188 | Eric Smidinger | United States | $694,909 |
| 2021 | 5,404 | Robert McMillan | United States | $561,060 |
| 2020 | - | Not held | - | - |
| 2019 | 5,916 | Howard Mash | United States | $662,594 |
| 2018 | 5,918 | Matthew Davis | United States | $662,676 |
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