The METRO MAIN EVENT Partners With Pokerstars!
December 4, 2007
The METRO MAIN EVENT slated for this weekend, Dec.8-9, has been officially moved to Jan.26-27. Although it might be an inconvenience to some who have already cleared their schedules (and we apologize for it), the good news is, POKERSTARS, the world’s largest online poker site, has teamed up with The Metro to make the event bigger and better than anybody expected!
Pokerstars, in cooperation with The Metro, will be presenting the first event of a series of major poker tournaments for 2008. Tentatively called “The Poker Master’s Tour”, it will be the biggest poker series the country has ever seen. Pokerstars aims to adopt existing major local tournaments like The Metro Main Event all throughout the year which will then culminate into a “Philippine Championship” that will coincide with The APPT Manila 2008 sometime around the last quarter of the year.
Just to spice things up, Pokerstars will be providing TV coverage complete with a TV table with hole cameras, just like we see on Poker shows everywhere. They are dedicating a 1 hour show that will be aired on cable TV featuring the METRO MAIN EVENT.
Also, they will be providing online freerolls and satellite tournaments for local poker players to win a seat to the Main Event! By signing up at Pokerstars.net, players can join these tournaments and win their seat in the satellites. There will be an estimated 30 seats up for grabs into the P30,000 buy-in Main Event, which you can win for free!
The series of tournaments (starting with The METRO MAIN EVENT) will end in a major tournament estimated to have a 10 MILLION peso prize pool just in time for APPT Manila 2008.
This great tournament just got even better, thanks to Pokerstars. Make sure you are ready to play in the biggest local event in poker this country has ever seen! Again, seats are limited, so make sure you get yours asap! Stay tuned for further announcements about the online tournaments.
See you at the METRO!
Sounds like great news. Will this event still be limited to 110 players?
Thank you.
Graham Bone
Due to the limited number of seating capacity of the venue, the seats are maxed out at 100. We are looking into considering using the alternates system (used in the APPT and WSOP) to add more participants.
Updates are coming soon.
Thanks!
Why not make it a 2 day event elimination. That way you can make the entry up to 200. Im sure with all the hype there would be a lot of interested poker players out there. Iam glad it was moved to Jan since I will be coming home on Dec21. Thanks
Any news on the Metro Main Event? Is the January 26 and 27 schedule still okey. I moved my return trip to 28th so I can play on this event. Thanks.
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