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A brand-new tournament is set to debut at the upcoming LA Poker Open at the Commerce Casino that is the brainchild of elite tournament directors Matt Savage and Justin Hammer.
Matt Savage: 'Does a 50k starting stack for a $240 buy in sound big enough?'
The Jacked Stack event runs from Nov. 6-10 and features a $200,000 guaranteed prize pool despite only costing $240 to enter. Featuring seven starting flights, the Jacked Stack event sees players sit down with a huge stack of 50,000 chips, play to a blind structure that starts at 100/200 with a 200 big blind ante. Levels increase every 20-minutes for the first 10 levels before increasing to 30-minute intervals thereafter.
Having a 50,000 stack in a $240 buy-in live tournament is practically unheard of, but Matt Savage has answered players’ cries for deeper stacks and better structures; 'Does a 50k starting stack for a $240 buy in sound big enough?' Savage said.
Players are permitted to play in as many flights as they wish but can only carry their biggest stack forward to Day 2. Should a player progress to Day 2 more than once, they will receive a min-cash for each stack that is removed from play.
The top eight percent of each field progresses to Day 2, with Day 2 play being on eight-handed tables.
Justin Hammer, the tournament coordinator, said of the Jacked Stack event, “I am so jacked to run the Jacked Stack. Players are going to love it because there’s so many chips!”
Date | Time | Tournament | Buy-in |
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Fri 2 Nov | 5:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Kickoff Event $50,000 Gtd | $175 |
Sat 3 Nov | 12:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Triple Stack $100,000 Gtd | $350 |
5:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Turbo $20,000 Gtd | $120 | |
Sun 4 Nov | 12:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em KO Bounty $50,000 Gtd | $350 |
5:00 p.m. | Second Chance Blitz $20,000 Gtd | $120 | |
Mon 5 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | Omaha Hi-Lo (8-Handed) | $350 |
5:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Double Stack Blitz | $220 | |
Tue 6 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | Omaha 8/Stud 8 or Better | $350 |
4:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1A $200,000 Gtd | $240 | |
Wed 7 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | H.O.R.S.E. | $350 |
4:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1B $200,000 Gtd | $240 | |
Thu 8 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | Pot Limit Omaha (8-Handed) | $350 |
4:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1C $200,000 Gtd | $240 | |
Fri 9 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1D $200,000 Gtd | $240 |
5:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1E $200,000 Gtd | $240 | |
Sat 10 Nov | 12:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1F $200,000 Gtd | $240 |
4:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Jacked Stack Day 1G $200,000 Gtd | $240 | |
Sun 11 Nov | 3:00 p.m. | Veteran’s Day Combat Blitz $25,000 Gtd | $175 |
3:00 p.m. | Jack Stack Day 2 | ||
Mon 12 Nov | 12:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Triple Stack Blitz $50,000 Gtd | $350 |
6:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em 6 Hours and Time’s Up Bounty | $150 | |
Tue 13 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Survivor | $340 |
Thu 15 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Main Event Day 1A $500,000 Gtd | $1,100 |
Fri 16 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Main Event Day 1B $500,000 Gtd | $1,100 |
Sat 17 Nov | 12:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Main Event Day 1C $500,000 Gtd | $1,100 |
5:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em 5x Survivor | $1,100 | |
Sun 18 Nov | 1:00 p.m. | Main Event Day 2 | |
4:00 p.m. | No Limit Hold’em Send Off Freeroll |
Several different poker variants and formats are scheduled for the LA Poker Open between Nov. 2-18, giving players the chance to test their skills in affordable tournaments that have sizeable guarantees.
Justin Hammer: 'Players are going to love it because there’s so many chips!'
$50,000 is guaranteed in the Kickoff Event at 5:00 p.m. local time on Nov.2 for a $175 buy-in, with players also able to get involved in events such as the Triple Stack, turbo-structured tournaments, bounty events, pot-limit Omaha, Omaha Hi/Low, an Omaha-8/Stud-8 tournament and a H.O.R.S.E event.
Another unique tournament takes place at 6:00 p.m. local time on Nov. 12. Named the No Limit Hold’em 6 Hours and Time’s Up Bounty, players buy in for $150 and receive 25,000 chips. They then play 13 levels of 15-minutes each before completing five levels of 20-minutes each. At the end of the 18th level, 15 more hands are played before the tournament ends and is settled based on players’ chips with one in eight players being paid out.
Rounding off what looks like an exciting festival is the $500,000 guaranteed Main Event that costs $1,100 to enter and has three starting flights. Again, players can play in multiple flights but only take their largest stack through to Day 2, with a min-cash awarded for each stack they have taken out of play. Satellites costing $175 to enter run throughout the LA Poker Open festival and have between three and ten $1,100 seats guaranteed.
The champion of the LA Poker Open Main Event also wins a $10,000 entry to the L.A. Poker Classic Main Event in 2019 in addition to their payout.
You can check out the structure for each of the 2018 LA Poker Open events at the Commerce Casino website. Updates on the series will be available and LAPCnews.com.
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Commerce Casino | |
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Location | Commerce, California 90040 |
Address | 6131 East Telegraph Road |
Opening date | August 1983 |
Theme | Assyrian/Babylonian[1] |
No. of rooms | 200 |
Total gaming space | 91,694 square feet (8,518.7 m2) |
Casino type | Land |
Owner | California Commerce Club, Inc.[2] |
Renovated in | 2001 (hotel addition) |
Website | www.commercecasino.com |
Commerce Casino is a cardroom located in the Los Angeles suburb of Commerce. With over 240 tables on site, Commerce Casino is the largest cardroom in the world.[3] Established in 1983, the casino accounted for 38% of Commerce's tax revenues for the 2006-2007 fiscal year.[4] As of 2016, the casino was providing $22 million a year in licensing fees to the city.[5]
In addition to the main cardroom, the Commerce Casino complex includes a full-service 200-room Crowne Plaza Hotel, which houses dining establishments, a day spa, beauty salon, pool and sundeck, banquet rooms, shops and entertainment. The Commerce is also home to several restaurants and host to live boxing, MMA and Professional Wrestling events. Commerce Casino opened a Playboy-themed gaming lounge in 2014.[6]
The Commerce Casino offers a wide variety of limit, pot limit and no limit poker games, including:
The casino spreads more Texas Hold'em games than any other casino in the world.[citation needed] Commerce spreads hold'em games as low as 2-3 and 2-4. 3-6, 4-8 & 6-12 exist on the main floor, with 8-16 and larger limit games in the Hotel section. No Limit Hold 'em games have buy-ins as low as $40 and go much higher. There is a new $5/10 $500/$1500 spread No Limit Hold'em game which was first created in 2008.
The Casino's bad beat jackpots sometimes grow into six figures.[citation needed] Commerce Casino offers a $100,000 Super Jackpot for Hold 'em.
Players can bring members of a home game to the Casino and they will provide game instruction, dealers, a pit boss, cards, chips and poker snacks. The 'home' games act as live cash games and are eligible for jackpots.
The casino offers free poker lessons on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at the Crowne Plaza Hotel. Beginner classes are Tuesdays from 8 pm to 10 pm and intermediate classes are held on Thursdays from 8 pm to 10 pm. Registration is available at the company website. The instructor is Roger Rodd 'Poker Comedian and Poker Instructor to the Stars.'
The Commerce Casino is home to several poker tournament series,[7] including:
The Commerce Casino is home to several eating establishments,[8] including:
Commerce also offers Pan, No Bust Blackjack, 3 Card Poker, Let It Ride, Caribbean Stud Poker, 21st Century Baccarat, EZ Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Super Pan Nine and 13 Card (Chinese poker).
Games besides poker, such as the ones listed above, are called 'California Games' and have been modified to conform to California state gambling laws. The primary difference between California Games and normal casino table games is that the player does not play against the house but rather plays against a third party provider that banks the games. California law requires that all non-poker games at the Commerce Casino or any California card room are player-banked, meaning players play only against one another, and never against the house. Any player that regularly banks the 'player banked games' and does not have a contract with the casino to do so will be barred from the casino. The Commerce serves as a host for these games, providing a venue for their play and benefits indirectly off the gambling revenue through 'rent' payments from the third party provider. The casino also charges a collection to play the game usually 1% of the bet wagered (rounded up to the nearest dollar) for hosting these games.[9]
The Racebook at Commerce Casino opened in July 2009, featuring mini satellite wagering from California and Eastern U.S. race tracks. There is no admission fee.
Coordinates: 33°59′54″N118°08′41″W / 33.998407°N 118.144587°W