Levels for the tournament will be 20 minutes, meaning that the action should wrap sometime in the early evening on Sunday night.
$135 of the entry fee will go into the prize pool and, for an additional $5, players can get a 5K top-off to their initial 20,000 chip starting stack. The tournament is a $150 buy in event that will be limited to 80 players. These rules will also be in place as they get ready to have their first multi-table poker tournament since the COVID-19 outbreak. They are enforcing a mask rule on both the employees and the players and play is limited to six handed across the floor, but there are no partitions between the players to separate them into cubicles. Petersburg, FL, has been running cash games for the past week with precautions for its players.
Now, as rooms and casinos are beginning to open, one segment of the game – tournament poker – is slowly beginning to emerge from its slumber at Florida’s Derby Lane Poker Room.ĭerby Lane, located in St. Poker, on a live basis in a casino or card room, has been closed for the last two months. The COVID-19 outbreak and resulting shutdown of society has resulted in changes across the board.
