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Partypoker Unveils Its Richest Powerfest Yet; $11M Guaranteed
- Updated: January 6, 2017
Online poker giant partypoker has released details of its latest Powerfest Festival and it is its most ambitious yet with more than $11 million in guaranteed prize pools.
When partypoker launched Powerfest in February 2016, it featured 98 events with combined guarantees of $5 million. The number of events almost doubled to 172 when partypoker next ran Powerfest, in May 2016, and the guarantees increased to $7.8 million.
In September 2016, Powerfest again hit the partypoker virtual felt, this time bringing $10 million in guarantees across 198 tournaments. On Jan. 22 the biggest and richest Powerfest on record kicks off with the first of 224 tournaments and over $11 million in cash to be won.
As with previous editions of Powerfest, the events are split into four categories to match their respective “weight divisions” from the site’s regular Power Series tournaments. There are Featherweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight and …