India Poker Championship (IPC) has not disappointed its fans and after declaring about their plan for postponing IPC Colombo earlier this month, they have come up with another schedule within a fortnight. The dates IPC has chosen For its Colombo tourney are in the month of September, from 4th to 8th. This is going to be a five days tournament with exciting rewards on line. The IPC tournament will be hosted by Bally’s Casinos in Colombo, Sri Lanka and for its online satellites IPC has partnered with India’s premier online poker website Adda52.com.
IPC’s jasven Saigal said, “We want our players to have a world class experience and with that in mind, we are thrilled about Roberto Wong (formerly of PokerStars Macau and Poker King Club Macau) coming onboard as Tournament Director for the event”.
The highlights of IPC Colombo are going to be its events with guaranteed prize. On Sept. 5th, INR 5,000 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event has an assured prize of INR 200,000. For INR 400,000 the second event INR 10,000 No Limit Hold’em is going to take place on Sept. 6th. And the biggest surprise of the event is going to be its Main Event.
The INR 25,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event Freezeout has an unbelievable prize of INR 750,000 on grabs. Main event is going to be a two days event. The first day of the tournament will run INR 3,000 Satellite with re-entry and the top three winners will get entry into the Main event. Last day of the tournament will run INR 10,000 Deepstack Turbo Event with a re-entry.
All the satellite events which will be organised by Adda52.com will start form July 27th till 24th of August on every Saturday at 10 PM. A player needs to make a refundable deposit of INR 100 and use the bonus Code IPCSAT. The top three winners of these qualifiers will get a direct entry in the IPC events as the per the following norm:
1st- IPC Colombo main event entry worth INR. 25,000 + INR. 25,000 round trip fare
2nd- IPC Colombo Tournament Ticket worth INR 10,000
3rd- IPC Colombo Tournament Ticket worth INR 5,000
This 16th edition of IPC has already created a huge buzz among-st all the poker lovers in Indian sub-continent when it declared its dates in the month of July. But it released a statement regarding postponing of the tourney’s dates earlier this month because of date clash issue with Casino Royale.
Players can get all the information regarding the tournament and can also register themselves by visiting Indian Poker Championship official website. So all poker lovers, get ready to pack your bags and fly off to Colombo to participate in one of the biggest poker tournament.