On Saturday, the Foxwoods MegaStack Challenge will kick off from the forests of Connecticut. This time around, 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up Darvin Moon will serve as its host. The tournament series will shell out $375,000 in guaranteed prize money and offer a $1,100 buy-in Main Event.
Moon played second fiddle to Joe Cada in Las Vegas in 2009. Cada, who banked $8.5 million by virtue of the win, became the youngest WSOP Main Event winner ever, breaking Peter Eastgate’s standing record set in 2008. Cada won the event just days before his 22nd birthday and then went on a USA-wide victory parade that included stints on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and ESPN’s “SportsCenter.”
The $1,100 buy-in Main Event at Foxwoods begins on December 11th with Day 1 starting at 11:00am local time; the winner will be crowned the next day. Players will receive a starting stack of 40,000 and the blind levels will stretch for 50 minutes apiece. On Day 2, the survivors will return to the Foxwoods poker room at 11:00am and the blinds will lengthen to an hour. The Main Event comes with a $100,000 guaranteed purse.
On December 4th, the MegaStack Challenge kicks off with a $560 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event that offers a colossal $75,000 guaranteed prize pool. Players will receive a starting stack of 20,000 and the price of poker will tick up every 50 minutes. The two-day event begins promptly at 11:00am local time on Saturday for Day 1 and at Noon on Sunday for Day 2.
Here is the schedule for the newest Foxwoods MegaStack Challenge, hosted by Moon. All times are Eastern:
Saturday December 4th at 11:00am
$560 buy-in No Limit Hold’em, 20,000 starting chips
$75,000 guarantee
Sunday and Monday, December 5th and 6th at 10:00am
$230 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry (Two Day 1s), 8,000 starting chips
$100,000 guarantee
Tuesday, December 7th at 6:00pm
$120 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack Special, 15,000 starting chips
$10,000 guarantee
Wednesday, December 8th at 11:00am
$200 buy-in Bounty Event, 15,000 starting chips
$15,000 guarantee
Thursday, December 9th at 11:00am
$340 buy-in No Limit Hold’em, 15,000 starting chips
$75,000 guarantee
Saturday, December 11th at 11:00am
$1,100 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Main Event, 40,000 starting chips
$100,000 guarantee
In October, Foxwoods played host to the annual World Poker Finals, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). The $10,000 WPT event drew a field of 242 players and Jeff Forest walked away with the title and a bankroll boost of $548,000. The internet-heavy final table also featured Dave Inselberg (second place for $325,608), Tom “Kingsofcards” Marchese (third place for $211,759), Nikolai Yakovenko (fourth place for $170,773), Keven “Stamdogg” Stammen (fifth place for $128,650), and Mohsin “chicagocards1” Charania (sixth place for $104,741).
Moon, a logger from the backwoods of Maryland, donned a New Orleans Saints cap and Wheeling Island Casino shirt throughout his WSOP stints. In 2010, he was seated at the ESPN feature table on Day 1D.
FoxwoodsLive.com will be bringing the action from the New England casino to life throughout the upcoming MegaStack Challenge.
