Hippodrome London Poker Tournaments
- Hippodrome London Poker Tournaments Games
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- Hippodrome London Poker Tournaments 2020
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If you travel the world for business, you get accustomed to shrugging it off when friends tell you how jealous they are. They talk green-eyed about your lucky, jet-set lifestyle, imagining that you step off the plane and on to the beach.
PokerStars is the number-one provider of poker in the world and now brings the magic to London’s West End with the PokerStars LIVE at the Hippodrome Casino poker room. In partnership with the capital’s most exciting and well-appointed casino, this state-of-the-art venue provides regular cash games and tournaments, as well as hosting the most prestigious live poker tours and event seri.
Much like the travelling salesman who knows that the truth of it actually means trading one out-of-town business park and travel tavern for a foreign out-of-town business park and travel tavern, people on the international poker circuit know that this world isn't as glamorous as you might think. The one thing you learn quickly is that the inside of casinos tend to look remarkably similar regardless of country and even continent. You've seen one blackjack pit, you've seen them all.
Opening a PokerStars account is easy. Click here to get an account in minutes.That rule, however, has its exceptions, and the Hippodrome Casino in London, home of the PokerStars LIVE card-room and this PokerStars Festival, is unique. This place is nothing if not theatrical.
Opened in January 1900--117 years ago last week--this building was once one of London's hundreds of 'circus variety theatres', where Londoners of late Victorian era gathered in their masses to watch various cabaret acts.
The entertainment was eclectic to say the least: a young Charlie Chaplin was in the cast of the theatre's first production and Harry Houdini once performed here. There was also a 100,000 gallon water tank where spectators could watch polar bears and sea lions do their thing and into which a troupe of dwarves was also employed to dive from the top of the building. Those Victorians, huh.
For all that, the establishment was a major deal. As London throbbed as one of the world's entertainment capitals though the 20th century, the Hippodrome was the jewel in the crown of a chain owned by Sir Edward Moss, one of two impresarios whose theatres dominated the scene at the time. It latterly became a nightclub named The Talk of the Town, and a roll of honour including Judy Garland, Sammy Davis Jr., Julie Andrews, Tom Jones and Stevie Wonder ensured it lived up to its name.
As the popularity of variety shows and cabaret gradually diminished in the second half of the 20th century, it became time for another reinvention. In 2009, after a short period as a nightclub owned by Peter Stringfellow, the Hippodrome opened as a casino.
However, the £40 million refurbishment project made special efforts to maintain the features of the building's original purpose. It remains obviously and proudly a former theatre, with the gaming floor spread across several levels and often beneath shimmering theatrical lights.
The permanent PokerStars LIVE card-room is located in the gods, at the very top of what would have been the balcony or upper circle. These were the cheap seats, but now they are pretty exclusive: they're running side events, satellites and cash games up there. There's also a spectacular view down on to the entire space, over what would have been the circle (now housing the Heliot Steak Restaurant) and the stalls, which is now the main casino floor.
The first 12 tables of today's £2,200 High Roller event are located on what was once the stage. It's appropriate for the great global performers of poker's theatre: we have the likes of Jake Cody, Felipe Ramos, Aditya Agarwal, Pierre Neuville and Adrian Mateos in today's field. That's five countries and three continents among those five players alone. Six if you include Chris Moorman, who comes from the country known as Internet.
But those aren't the only areas in which you'll find action today. Theatres are typically full of nooks and crannies, and areas once in the wings now include the 'Macau Lounge', for example, housing baccarat and three-card poker tables.
Similarly, 'Lola's Underground Casino' occupies the basement, and it's well worth a trip into the undercroft. Fashioned after a speakeasy, Lola's requires players to disbelieve the shop window that suggests it's an old apothecary and skip past the flickering lamp-post on the stairs.
The red leather lounge chairs, Wurlitzer jukebox and dance podium transport visitors immediately back to the cabaret era. (It's where we'll have the PokerStars player party on Friday at 9pm.) Only those doors marked, appropriately, 'BACKSTAGE' are truly off limits.
Hippodrome London Poker Tournaments Games
In short, if you've ever been tempted to play a poker tournament, but have been put off by the idea of bland, identikit casinos, built to a formula in around 1996, then this is your event. The £990 Main Event kicks off tomorrow, with three starting days and a tremendous £400,000 guaranteed prize-pool. You could record your own slice of history in this most esteemed location.
In Association with Pokerstars Live
Our cash games will be available from 1pm to 9am each day. Please follow floor signage and guidelines for the best route to the Poker Deck.
Members can now call in to reserve a space or added to waitlist on 0207 769 8853
Please see rules section for full details.
Each table will offer a maximum of seven handed games, with screens in place between each seat for added player protection. Each table will be regularly cleaned and each position will be sanitised between players.
Our dealers and staff will wear face masks or visors and we encourage players to do so, although this is not a mandatory requirement.
We ask all players to use the wash station located on the poker deck before taking a seat and each time they leave the table. Hand sanitiser will be available and we encourage regular use whilst playing.
Chips will be sanitised and cleaned after each player use. Cards will be regularly sanitised and changed.
Here is the minimum and maximums for our games.
No Limit Texas Hold’em:
£1/£2 = £50-£400
£1/£2 DeepStack = £150-NoMax
£2/£5 = £250-£2500
£2/£5 Deepstack = £500-NoMax
£5/£10 = £750-£7500
£10-£25 = £1000-£10,000
£25/£50 = £2500-£15,000
£50/£100 = £5000-NoMax
Pot Limit Omaha/Dealers choice and all other Mixed games:
£1/£2 = £100-£1000
£1/£2 DeepStack = £250-NoMax
£2/£5 = £500-NoMax
£5/£10 = £750-NoMax
£10-£25 = £1000-NoMax
Hippodrome London Poker Tournaments Odds
£25/£50 = £2500-NoMax
Hippodrome London Poker Tournaments 2020
