Following a highly successful start to 2020 with a record-breaking debut trip to Madrid, 888poker LIVE is off to Bucharest next month for a week-long festival running March 23-29.
Powered by PokerFest, the 888poker LIVE Bucharest Festival promises to be a first-class event in a great destination for poker players. The last event in Bucharest crushed its €300,000 guarantee with 505 entries creating a €387,638 prize pool. Bucharest is a beautiful city, known as the “Little Paris of the East” with wide, tree-lined boulevards and Art Nouveau architecture.
The festival kicks off March 23 with the €200 + €30 888LIVE Bucharest Opening Event, and the flagship Main Event starts two days later on Wednesday, March 25. The €888 buy-in Main Event guarantees a €300,000 monster prize pool with the eventual winner also securing a $12,500 prize package to this year’s 888-sponsored WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas.
MainEventTravel is the Official Travel Partner for 888poker LIVE and will be looking after the travel needs for all the 888Live qualifiers as well as arranging accommodation and flights for dozens of other players.
All of 888poker’s esteemed ambassadors will be attending Bucharest including Kara Scott, Dominik Nitsche, Chris Moorman, Vivian Saliba, Sofia Lövgren, Martin Jacobson, Daria Feshchenko and Ana Marquez – along with other notable players from all over Europe and beyond. Last year’s 888poker LIVE Bucharest winner was local hero Darius Neagoe who won €62,300 on home soil after beating a record-breaking 505-strong field. 888poker LIVE Bucharest is taking place at the 5-Star Intercontinental Hotel Bucharest. As well as Opening Event and Main Event, the stop includes numerous satellites, a turbo bounty tournament, Hyper Madness event, €60 Ladies Event, €1,400 High Roller and two-day €330 buy-in Deepstack.
888poker LIVE’s first event of the year in Madrid was a huge success with a total of 1,067 entries for the €800k guarantee Main Event. It was 888poker LIVE’s first visit to the Spanish capital. Marco Biavaschi turned a €100 satellite win into a €150,000 victory at Casino Gran Via.
Over the summer, 888poker LIVE – and MainEventTravel – will be back in Las Vegas once again to join forces with the World Series of Poker for both the 888Live WSOP Crazy Eights and the 888Live WSOP Main Event.