Fervor Is in the Air as the WPT Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open $3,500 Championship Starts Today

Fervor Is in the Air as the WPT Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open $3,500 Championship Starts Today

The 2018 version of the WPT Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open is in progress at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Hollywood, Main Event begins today

The WPT is back at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida during the current year's WPT Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open, and the celebration's $3,500 Main Event is only hours from commencing at the poker tables of the famous gambling club.

WPT activity started at the host scene on November 14 with a $360 purchase in Deep Stack competition with an ensured prize pool of $1 million. Also, various different occasions have too been finished from that point forward, however the most foreseen one is yet to start.

This year, the title occasion will include an ensured prize pool of $2 million. It commences today at twelve Florida time and will run completely through November 28. The Main Event will incorporate two beginning flights played on two separate days and four more long stretches of activity. The last day of the competition will see six players return at twelve nearby time at the host gambling club to play down to a hero. The official last table will be gushed with a 30-minute postponement, beginning 12:30 pm nearby time.

In general, the calendar of the current year's WPT Seminole Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open incorporates 19 competitions and three of those element seven-figure ensured prize pools, with those being the celebration's opening occasion, the Main Event, and the single-day $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em with an ensured prize pool of $1 million.

A year ago's Champion

A year ago's version of the $3,500 Championship occasion at Seminole Hard Rock Casino Hollywood drew 585 sections, some of whom had flown the distance from Europe and different parts of the world. A prize pool of $1.872 million was made, neglecting to squash the $2 million assurance.

The best 79 finishers were blessed to receive an offer of the ensured cash and it was US poker ace Jared Jaffee who was the main player to leave the competition with a payout. Min-liquidates were worth $4,900.

Michael Newman outlived the Main Event's field a year ago. The player was granted the measure of $374,240 and the WPT Seminole Rock 'N' Roll Poker Open trophy. Lithuania's Matas Cimbolas and US player Darryll Fish were the other two to round out the platform of a year ago's release of the significant competition. Cimbolas gathered $262,440 for his sprinter up complete, while Fish scooped a $168,920 offer of the prize pool for completing third.

Newman is a normal at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Casino and has been playing in repeating competitions occurring at the scene throughout recent years. He has been very dynamic over the previous year and has traded out in excess of 20 competitions at the Hollywood-based betting scene. It is to be seen whether Newman will enter the current year's Main Event in an offered to guard his title.