The 2020 WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica Main Event Kicks Off Today
After a week-long of poker tournaments inside the Horseshoe Casino in Tunica, Mississippi, it is finally time for the Main Event to take the stage. Multiple World Series of Poker Circuit rings have already been handed out along with plenty of cash over the opening side events. However, this is the moment many of the players have been waiting for with the $1,700 Main Event set to begin today.
This event attracted a whopping 639 entries in 2019 which generated a total prizepool just shy of $1,000,000. The tournament staff has said the numbers appear to be very similar thus far this year and the satellites have seen big turnouts. Kyle Cartwright came out on top for his fourth career WSOP Circuit Main Event title to add to his one WSOP gold bracelet. Cartwright took home nearly $200,000 last year, the second-largest cash of his poker career.
The cards are scheduled to go in the air at 11 a.m. local time and the players are expected to buckle up for a long day of poker. There are 16 levels on the schedule with the first 15 of them being 40 minutes in length and the final level is set to increase to 60 minutes. There will be a 15-minute break after every three levels and a 60-minute dinner break after level nine.
Players will sit down to a starting stack of 30,000 chips and the blinds beginning at 100/100 in the opening level. Late registration will remain open until the start of level 13 and each player will be allowed a single re-entry per flight. There will be one more starting flight tomorrow which will start at 11 a.m. as well.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be on the tournament floor throughout the Main Event to bring you all of the live updates until a winner is crowned.