Penn National Gaming Announces Schedule for Season 4 of the Hollywood Poker Open
October 05 2015 - 10:00AM
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Chris Moneymaker Returns to Host and Compete
for Championship as the Season Begins on November 12th at Hollywood
Casino Lawrenceburg
Penn National Gaming, Inc. (NASDAQ: PENN) (“Penn National”)
announced today the schedule for Season 4 of the Hollywood Poker
Open (“HPO”). Penn National’s HPO tournament series kicks off with
the first regional tournament beginning November 12th at Hollywood
Casino Lawrenceburg and will conclude in June 2016 with the
Tournament Championship at the M Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. The
guaranteed prize pool for the HPO has tripled each year since the
inaugural 2012 season and the prize pool for Season 4 is expected
to be the largest ever with an estimated Championship Tournament
prize pool of over $2 million.
Poker players from across the country will compete for the HPO’s
big money prize pools from November through next May at five HPO
regional tournament series locations. Promotions are planned for
each regional tournament series location (see schedule below) and
the Tournament Championship. In each of the past three seasons,
Penn National properties across the nation sent more than 200 “seat
winners” to the HPO Tournament Championship in Las Vegas.
“Interest in the HPO continues to grow as it becomes more and
more competitive and exciting,” said HPO Tournament Director Bill
Bruce. “As we have in the first three seasons of the HPO, our
regional tournament series will determine hundreds of winners that
will compete in the Tournament Championship in Las Vegas. The HPO
tournament series attracts all levels of poker players with fields
featuring a diverse mix of traveling poker professionals and local
promotion winners. The HPO offers our regional gaming patrons a
tremendous opportunity to compete for large prize pools and the
chance to be crowned the ultimate champion.”
This past June, Kevin Stammen of Coldwater, Ohio outplayed
nearly 700 other players from across the United States and around
the world to pocket nearly $350,000 as the winner of Season 3’s
Hollywood Poker Open Tournament Championship. Stammen is expected
to defend his title in Season 4 against an impressive list of
ranked poker professionals, rising stars, and seat winners from
Penn National properties across the country. He will also have to
fend off HPO host and poker legend Chris Moneymaker.
“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to host the Hollywood
Poker Open tournament series,” said Moneymaker. “Each year the HPO
continues to grow and further cements its reputation as one of the
leading poker tournaments in the country.”
Hollywood Poker Open Season 4 Regional
Tournament Series Schedule
November 12–22, 2015: Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg
(Indiana) February 25 – March 6, 2016: Hollywood Casino Toledo
(Ohio) March 10–20, 2016: Hollywood Casino St. Louis (Missouri)
April 28 – May 8, 2016: Hollywood Casino Columbus (Ohio) May 12–22,
2016: Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races (West Virginia)
Hollywood Poker Open Season 4
Tournament Championship
June, 2016: M Resort Spa Casino (Nevada)
About Penn National Gaming
Penn National Gaming owns, operates or has ownership interests
in gaming and racing facilities and video gaming terminal
operations with a focus on slot machine entertainment. At September
1, 2015, the Company operated twenty-seven facilities in seventeen
jurisdictions, including Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey,
New Mexico, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, and Ontario.
At September 1, 2015, in aggregate, Penn National Gaming operated
approximately 34,000 gaming machines, 800 table games and 4,600
hotel rooms.
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