Mar 5, 2021
Photo: Reigning WPT at Venetian Champion Ben Palmer
Welcome to our live coverage of WPT at Venetian!
This is a $5,000 buy-in event with a guaranteed prizepool worth at least $1.5 million.
The last time this event was held (March, 2019, with a lower buy-in of $3,500), Ben Palmer outlasted a field of 734 players to win $431,655.
There will be two starting flights (today and tomorrow) beginning at 11:10 am. Players begin with 40,000 in chips, and the opening blinds will be 100-200 with a big blind ante of 200. Each starting flight will play 10 one-hour levels before stopping for the day around 10:45 pm. There will be a 45-minute dinner break after Level 6, around 5:40 pm.
Registration remains open with unlimited re-entries until the start of Level 9, around 8:40 pm.
Here’s the daily schedule:
Day 1A: Fri, March 5th, 11:10 am PST
Day 1B: Sat, March 6th, 11:10 am
Day 2: Sun, March 7th, 11:00 am
Day 3: Mon, March 8th, 12:00 noon
Day 4: Tue, March 9th, 2:00 pm
Day 1A action begins today at 11:10 am, so stay tuned to WPT.com for live updates throughout the event.