Station Casinos to hold $500,000 freeroll poker tournament

With all the attention on the WSOP the next six weeks, don’t forget to put in your hours at your friendly local poker room.

Especially because Station Casinos again holds their $500,000 Poker Plus freeroll tournament at Texas Station on Aug. 18-19.

To qualify, play 75 hours in live cash games in one or more Station Casino poker rooms between now and July 31.

All players are guaranteed to win $100 (which usually comes with a baseball cap and t-shirt, not that we’ve ever been knocked out on the first day or anything…).

Chip leaders at the end of Day 1 will split $10,000.

The remaining prizes are as follows:

1st — $70,000
2nd — $30,000
3rd — $15,000
4th — $10,000
5th — $8,000
6th — $6,000
7th — $5,000
8th — $4,000
9th — $3,000
10th — $2,000
11th-50th — $1,000
51st-500th — $200

Games switch between limit hold’em, Omaha hi, and no-limit hold’em. Players receive 700 chips to start. Yep, they want you out of there fast (not that we lasted just an hour or anything…).

In order to fund the guaranteed half a million, the regular progressive jackpot will be reduced to 45 percent and will increase at a slower pace. Normally the jackpot rake funds all of the progressive. At freeroll time, however, 55 percent of the rake goes to the freeroll.

Station Casinos to hold $500,000 freeroll poker tournament

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