Festivities at the PokerStars North American Poker Tour’s (NAPT) Los Angeles stop may have already begun, but that doesn’t mean that the schedule is set in stone. Tournament organizers announced this week that a new event – a $5,250 Bounty Shootout (BSO) – has been added to the docket and will be inserted into the lineup next week.
While the rest of the NAPT Los Angeles is being held at the famous Bicycle Casino, the $5,250 BSO will take place at the Crystal Casino, just
a short drive south from “The Bike.” It will also be televised on ESPN2 in December. The first day will be split into two flights on Tuesday, November 16th, the first at 11:00am and the second at 6:00pm. The final table players will reconvene on Thursday, November 18th at 2:00pm to battle it out for the title.
For those unfamiliar with Shootout tournaments, they are essentially a series of single-table tournaments. At first, play looks like any other multi-table tournament, but as players are eliminated, the tables are not rebalanced. Instead, each table plays down to a single winner. Once every table has its champ, those winners combine to form new tables and they once again play down to one survivor. This continues for as many rounds as necessary until just one player remains in the entire event. In the case of the $5,250 BSO, there will only be one round before the final table, as the event has a maximum capacity of 81 players. Thus, play will begin with nine tables of nine, with the nine winners meeting at Thursday’s final table.
And, of course, since it is a Bounty tournament, each time a player eliminates an opponent, he receives a cash prize.
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