There is so much action at ACR Poker that we could do an article every day to keep players informed. There is always something – a new sponsored pro (hello, Tom Dwan), satellites to send players to Montenegro (hi, High Stakes Adventure), or tournament results (big turnout for the Turbo Boost Series.)
We’ll go with the big stuff.
Historic Venom
The latest Venom, ACR’s signature tournament, put up its largest guarantee ever for the April event. The $2,650 buy-in tournament ran satellites for months and offered five starting flights, and it was going to take all of those efforts and more to beat the $12.5M guarantee.
They did it. The total number of entries was 1,638 of them, which brought the total prize pool to $12,615,500. It was most certainly the largest Venom ever.
Play continues early this week to determine the ultimate winner, as players fight for their places at the final table and the chance to become a millionaire.
Route 66
Some people get their kicks on Route 66, as the song goes. ACR Poker players can now do that, too, in the form of good ol’ cash. The Route 66 is the newest weekly tournament on the already-substantial weekly lineup.
Route 66 is a $66 buy-in tournament that runs 43 starting flights Sunday through Sunday. Those Day 1 survivors then get together for Day 2 on Sunday at 5:30pm ET to play for the win. Each starting flight is said to run for about four hours, and Day 2 can take about six hours or so.
There are three opening flights every Sunday (5:05pm ET, 8:05pm ET, and 11:30pm ET), and then six daily flights from 7:15am ET to 11:30pm ET Monday through Saturday. More flights remain on Sunday morning (6:30am ET, 9:30am ET, and 12:05pm ET), with one final flight (hyper turbo) at 2:05pm.
Did we mention that the tournament has a $100K guarantee?
May Online Super Series
It’s time for another Online Super Series, or OSS, for May, and this is the XL version. The massive series will run May 5-27 with more than $40M in guarantees.
The XL version means that there are low, medium, and high buy-ins, indicated next to each event number by an L, M, or H. Buy-ins on the lower end start at just $0.10, and many of them remain under $100 to allow the most players to participate. There are more than 300 events, and with their L, M, and H versions – even some Micro versions – that adds up to, well, a lot of individual tournaments over the four weeks.
The highlights include:
- Event 1: $630 buy-in NLHE (flights May 5-27) with $1M GTD
- Event 2: $109 buy-in Mystery Bounty (flights May 5-27) with $1.5M GTD
- Event 3: $66 buy-in NLHE (flights May 5-27) with $500K GTD
- Event 4: $16.50 buy-in Mystery Bounty (flights May 5-26) with $200K GTD
- Event 5: $2.50 buy-in Mystery Bounty (flights 5-26) with $100K GTD
- Event 6: $2,650 buy-in Main Event (flights May 19 & 26) with $2.5M GTD
- Event 7: $1,050 buy-in Main Event (flights May 19 & 26) with $2M GTD
- Event 8: $215 buy-in Main Event (flights May 19 & 26) with $1M GTD
- Event 9: $2,650 buy-in PLO Main Event with $500K GTD
OSS XL Leaderboard
This iteration of OSS is so massive that ACR is contributing a $60K leaderboard competition for its players. It consists of three separate leaderboards for players at different levels. Each one will pay out the top 10 finishers when the series finishes, with prizes ranging from cash to tournament tickets.
- Low leaderboard: $0.10 to $8.80 buy-ins (top prize $2,500)
- Medium leaderboard: $10.50 to $88 buy-ins (top prize $5K)
- High leaderboard: $104.50 and higher buy-ins (top prize $10K)
There will be one prize for the overall champion, the person that tops all of the leaderboards, and that player will receive $15K.
