Poker Tournament Coming to an End

January 13, 2009

The North Dakota Texas Hold’em Poker Championship is at long last in its final days at the Vegas Hotel in Minot, and many are waiting with baited breath to see who the ultimate winner is likely to be. For a poker tournament that started with so very many players, for it to be finally winding down is somewhat of a relief for many as it has seemed like a long battle.

However, it actually only took two days for the poker tournament to whittle away more than 1,300 players to come down to less than a hundred. They had two days of qualifying rounds and as of tonight there will only be ten sitting down at that final poker game. With this being the fifth year that the tournament has been in town, it has grown substantially in players over the years – with just a few attending that first year and many, many more attending this year.

The first year they say that they simply tried to get about 300 poker players to show up, and this year their goal was 1,300. They have easily surpassed that mark, and it is expected that they will be over 2,000 players. Some of them say that with that many people vying for the final poker table, some really good players get eliminated earlier on, and that it is really tough to get a seat at the final table.

Some of the biggest players have finished in the top 100 or 200, but will not make it to the poker table this evening. For those that at least made it to the top 100 they will each get a cash prize, with obviously those who finish on top getting more than those who finish before them. Whoever takes the top seat will take home $35,000.