{"id":44010,"date":"2018-05-11T14:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/novosti\/festival-pokera-proidet-v-sochi.html"},"modified":"2018-05-11T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T11:01:07","slug":"festival-pokera-proidet-v-sochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/novosti\/festival-pokera-proidet-v-sochi","title":{"rendered":"A poker festival will be held in Sochi."},"content":{"rendered":"

\nIt's finally here: for the first time in its history, WSOP Circuit tournaments are coming to Russia. The series, with a total guarantee of 252,000,000 rubles, will take place from May 18th to 30th at Casino Sochi.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nThe WSOP-C Russia series opens with the Colossus tournament with a buy-in of 16,500 rubles.<\/p>\n

\nThe buy-in for the main event will be The tournament will be played for 66,000 rubles, with a guaranteed prize pool of 120,000,000 rubles. Upon registration, participants receive 50,000 chips, and the game will consist of 15 40-minute levels. Starting on the second day, the structure will become more gradual, with blinds increasing hourly. The first day of the Main Event will take place on May 22.<\/p>\n

\nThe Colossus tournament will offer a significant advantage over its Las Vegas counterpart: a more affordable buy-in of 16,500 rubles and an excellent guarantee of 60,000,000 rubles. Players with deep bankrolls will be interested in the High Roller and Super High Roller tournaments, with buy-ins of 132,000 rubles and 318,000 rubles, respectively.<\/p>\n

\nMulti-day Hold'em tournaments are also planned: the Monster Stack with a buy-in of 33,000 rubles and the Closer with a buy-in of 16,500 rubles. Each of these four tournaments has a guaranteed prize pool of 15,000,000 rubles. And if players get tired of playing with two cards, a Pot-Limit Omaha tournament will be held on the final day.<\/p>\n

\nArtur Voskanyan, Poker Projects Manager at Casino Sochi: "The miracle has finally happened\u2014the WSOP international poker series, known worldwide for its Las Vegas, record-breaking $100 million prize pools, and thousands of participants, is coming to Russia. This is a breakthrough, a new stage in the development of poker in Russia and the entire global poker community, something everyone has been waiting for. With Casino Sochi, we've made this dream come true. In the lead-up to the festival, we're promoting it globally and expecting many foreign guests. It's great that they'll see Russia from this side for the first time: the cozy, modern resort town of Gorki Gorod, a luxurious casino, a world-class hotel, haute cuisine from the casino's executive chef, Ilya Zakharov, and the impeccable organization of the tournament. We're very proud to be making a significant contribution to the development of tourism in Russia through our poker events."<\/p>\n

\nCasino Sochi has already become the premier venue for international live poker tournaments in Russia. WSOP-C Russia will be the first festival under the new four-year agreement between partypoker LIVE and Casino Sochi.<\/p>\n

\nThe tournament schedule is available. follow the link. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Source: trn-news.ru<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It's finally here: for the first time in its history, WSOP Circuit tournaments are coming to Russia. The series, with a total guarantee of 252,000,000 rubles, will take place from May 18th to 30th at Casino Sochi. Opening<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.prestigtours.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}