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The
WPT #05 High Roller is slated to kick off at 9:05 p.m. CEST for players to buy-in for $10,300 to win a share of the
$1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Players will start with 100,000 chips in their starting stacks and the first two levels of the day feature a small blind of 500, a big blind of 1,000, and a running ante of 100 and 125 in the second level. The level duration will be at 20 minutes each for the first 20 levels of the tournament and then increase to 25 minutes. Play will end today once the money stages have been reached and the remainder will be played out on Monday, May 16.
The record-setting GG Spring Festival (GGSF) caters to players all over the world, and there are some events specifically dedicated to those located in the Asia timezone. There were twelve tournaments in total that took place over the last two Saturdays, and another six are scheduled for the final Saturday of the festival (April 24).
Below is a summary of these events and what Asiaâs poker enthusiasts can look forward to in the tail end of this exciting festival.
Bounty Hunters Asia (April 10)
The three-tier system - High (H), Medium (M) and Low (L) - introduced during GGSF saw three bounty tournaments offered to bounty hunter enthusiasts on April 10. Buy-ins were at $210 (H), $52.50 (M) and $10.50 (L).
250M chips, and was the only player to finish with more than 200M.
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Daniel Dvoress gave Geci a run for his money in the late stages, building a stack of more than 200M at one point as they closed in on the final table, but ultimately, he ended the day with just over 170M, still good for solid second place in the stacks.
Dzmitry Urbanovich also survived to the final day, bagging the fourth biggest stack. With
Christian Rudolph in fifth, there s no shortage of star power at one of the biggest online final tables of the year.
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