$20 Million Guaranteed Powerfest Announced
partypoker has announced the latest edition of its Powerfest series will feature 301 tournaments with combined guarantees of $20 million, making it the richest Powerfest the online poker site has run.
��We decided to go for it this time and increase the total guaranteed prize pool for the upcoming Powerfest to over $20 million," said Tom Waters, managing director of partypoker. "There are some fantastic new headline events in the series, including three $1M guaranteed editions of the Title Fight, a $2M charity event and eight phased tournaments covering a range of buy-ins.
"I��m confident that the players will love the variety of events on offer and will relish the opportunity to become a Powerfest champion.��
When partypoker launched Powerfest in February 2016, the entire series featured $5 million worth of guaranteed prize pools. The second Powerfest series was announced two months later with $7.8 million up for grabs.
In September 2016, another Powerfest ran, this time with $10 million guaranteed before the guarantees were boosted to $11 million in January 2017.
This latest Powerfest takes place over the course of 15 days, starting on May 7 and coming to a thrilling conclusion on May 21. As with previous editions of the online festival, the upcoming Powerfest features a wide spectrum of buy-ins ranging from $5.50 up to $25,500.
The $25,500 buy in Super High Roller is scheduled for May 17 and partypoker promises to donate all of the fees generated from buy-ins, at $500 a pop, to a charity of the eventual champion��s choosing. Also, partypoker has pledged to add $50,000 to the charitable donation should at least 100 entrants compete in what is one of partypoker��s biggest tournaments ever in terms of buy-in.
Among the confirmed schedule are eight multi-phased tournaments �C think along the lines of a live tournament with several starting flights �C that have combined guarantees of $3.6 million. Phase 1s for these tournaments run several times daily throughout the Powerfest series and have buy-ins from $5.50 up to $530.
Bringing the curtain down on the $20 million guaranteed Powerfest are a quartet of Main Events, each one with a different buy in level linked to partypoker��s ��weight divisions�� of Featherweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight and High Roller. All four Main Events are scheduled for May 21 and there are a plethora of satellites feeding into each of them.
| Date | Event | Buy-in | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 21 | Powerfest #291: Main Event $50K Gtd | $11 | $50,000 |
| Powerfest #292: Main Event $100K Gtd | $55 | $100,000 | |
| Powerfest #293: Main Event $1m Gtd | $215 | $1,000,000 | |
| Powerfest #295: Main Event $1m Gtd High Roller | $1,050 | $1,000,000 |
Every week during Powerfest, player can compete in at least one tournament with a $1 million prize pool, not including the Main Events. Six events with $1 million guarantees are planned, giving players the chance to win potentially life-changing sums of money.
| Date | Event | Buy-in | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 7 | Powerfest #013: $1m Gtd | $215 | $1,000,000 |
| May 14 | Powerfest #152: $1m Gtd | $215 | $1,000,000 |
| Powerfest #162: Final Phase - $1m Gtd | $530 via Phase 1 | $1,000,000 | |
| May 16 | Powerfest #301: $2m Gtd Super High Roller | $25,500 | $2,000,000 |
| May 21 | Powerfest #296: $1m Gtd High Roller | $5,200 | $1,000,000 |
| Powerfest #300: Final Phase $1m Gtd | $530 via Phase 1 | $1,000,000 |
"I will be playing more online events than ever in this new edition of Powerfest on partypoker," said partypoker Ambassador Sam Trickett. ��The addition of the $25K Super High Roller is great and it��s a really nice touch from partypoker to donate all fees to charity.��
$1 Million Guaranteed Title Fight on April 2
partypoker is giving players the opportunity to experience what it is like to play poker for a share of a guaranteed $1 million by running a special edition of its Title Fight tournament on April 2.
The buy-in for the Title Fight Millions remains the same $215 but the $300,000 guarantee is being boosted to seven figures. It seems a bold move by the partypoker management as the Title Fight has overlaid almost every week since its creation in October 2016 with a guarantee less than a third of the size of the April 2 event.
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