Qualify Today for the Festival Online Main Event (for only $22)
This Sunday, the last two and the two biggest tournaments of The Festival Online will start. On 888poker the $215 Main Event and the $50k gtd. High Roller will be played. Tonight, you can qualify for the Main Event in a huge qualifier. This mega satellite guarantees 40 Main Event tickets for a buy-in of just $22.
Main Event Satellite With 40 Tickets Guaranteed
The Festival Online Main Event is a slightly more expensive tournament with a $215 buy-in, but luckily 888poker offers several qualifiers with a much lower buy-in. The biggest of these tournaments starts today at 21:00 CEST. The tournament is called Main Event Feeder and guarantees 40 tickets to the Main Event and has a buy-in of just $22. The event is designed to not take too long. It has a turbo structure and allows re-entries only during the first hour.
Details of the Main Event Feeder:
Name: The Festival Online - Main Event Feeder
Date: July 28
Time: 21:00 (CEST)
Variant: No Limit Hold'em
Buy-in: $22
Guarantee: 40 seats to the Main Event worth $215
Re-Entries: maximum 5
Late entries: until 22:00 (CEST)
Structure: 5,000 chips (6 minute levels)
Sunday: Main Event of The Festival Online
The Main Event of The Festival Online will begin on Sunday at 20:00 (CEST). This tournament allows re-entries and late entries in the first four hours and the tournament guarantees a whopping $150,000. The structure is rather slow - players start with 30,000 chips in the first level (that's 500 big blinds after all) and the level times are 12 minutes.
The tournament is played over two days, just like the other big tournaments in the series. Day 1 will end once the final table is reached. The final table will be played on Monday at the same time. From then on, the action will also be broadcast live on 888poker's Twitch channel. The broadcast has a delay of half an hour and is with open cards for all players.
Structure Main Event
Name: The Festival Online - Main Event
Date: July 31
Time: 20:00 (CEST)
Game: No Limit Hold'em
Buy-in: $215
Guarantee: $150,000
Re-Entries: maximum 5
Late entries: until midnight (CEST)
Structure: 30,000 chips (12 minute levels)
This Week's Results
This week, two smaller Festival Series tournaments were played on Tuesday. Here are the results of these events:
Result of The Festival Online PKO 8-Max
- Buy-in: $88
- Players: 166 players (plus 36 re-entries)
- Prize money: $16,160
- Winner: danielabe ($3,198.27)
British player danielabe won the knockout tournament. He defeated his opponent Berkow95 in heads-up and took home nearly $3,200 in prize money. More than half of it was knockout bounties.
Result of The Festival Online PLO Turbo
- Buy-in: $33
- Players: 48 players (plus 9 re-entries)
- Prize money: $1,710
- Winner: GaGaRa888 ($513)
Player GaGaRa888 from Ukraine won the small $33 Pot Limit Omaha tournament on Wednesday night. He beat Canadian GowithurGuts in the final and took home $513.
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