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Card Player Poker Tour Announces The Bicycle Casino Tournament Schedule

Nine Events And Six Mega Satellites Make Up Eight Days Of Poker In May At The Bicycle Club, Los Angeles

Marketwired

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA--(Marketwired - April 10, 2013) - The Card Player Poker Tour pulls into The Bicycle Casino, Los Angeles from May 23 to June 1 and the full event schedule has now been released.

The 175-table poker room, one of the largest in the world, will host eight tournaments including the $1,000 + 100 buy in re-entry main event with a guaranteed prize pool of $300,000 as well as six $125 + $25 buy in mega satellites to the main event.

Among the side events on offer to players are a $150 no-limit hold'em bounty, a $120 no-limit hold'em turbo with a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool, two $235 no-limit hold'em deepstack's with $30,000 guaranteed prize pools and a $150 pot-limit hold'em eight-or-better with a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The Bicycle Casino, also known as the Bicycle Club, is located about 10 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. One of the largest poker rooms in the world, it hosts 175 poker tables on 100,000+ square feet of floor space. The poker room is surrounded by HD televisions and guests are seated in comfortable chairs within a spacious, elegant, smoke-free atmosphere. Though the casino is without a hotel, there are a wide variety of accommodations available nearby. You can reach The Bicycle Casino by calling 1-562-806-4646. More information here.

The CPPT - The Bicycle Club is the fifth and penultimate stop of the current tour.

About the Card Player Poker Tour

The Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) is a series of live poker tournaments founded and supported by Card Player Media, publishers of the largest poker magazine in the United States, Card Player, and poker web portal CardPlayer.com. The tour, which is in its inaugural season, features live web broadcasting of its final table events, a players' points system and, each season, the tour's best players will be invited to play in the season-ending CPPT Championship. For more information, visit www.CardPlayerPokerTour.com.