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Powerfest Returns in September on partypoker Featuring $10 Million in Guarantees
- Updated: August 4, 2016
The third-edition of Powerfest is scheduled to take place on partypoker from September 4-25, and it will be the largest one yet with 198 tournaments and $10 million in guaranteed prize pools.
Powerfest has proven itself to be popular among recreational and professional players alike, with buy-ins ranging from $5.50 to $5,200. When the online poker series was introduced by partypoker for the first time in February, it featured 98 tournaments and $5 million in guaranteed prizes. The poker festival grew in size during its second run in May with 172 events and $7.8 million in guaranteed prize pools before once again growing coming September.
In addition to increasing the number of events, some of the existing tournaments on the previous schedule now have larger guarantees than before. Group Head of partypoker Tom Waters described this as an “exciting challenge” in a press release sent to PokerNews:
“Hosting Powerfest with our biggest ever guarantee of $10,000,000 is an exciting challenge for us, shared Waters. “We are looking to build on the success of the last Powerfest in May and have increased the guarantees on a number of Powerfest events as well as adding some new and improved MTTs.”
Powerfest Schedule
As was the case with the previous two editions, the poker festival is broken down into four categories. The only difference here is that the lowest two categories, Featherweight and Middleweight, will take place simultaneously during the first week of the schedule instead of during separate weeks as was the case previously. Additionally, …
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