The New Metro Kicks Off With Record-Breaking Tournament
The New Metro card club opened its doors today with The Metro 2M-4-10K Tournament, shattering previous local tournament records for number of participants when an unprecedented 328 poker players came to join this milestone in local poker history. No other local tournament has come even close to breaking the 300 players mark. This tournament now has a P3,280,000 prize pool, meaning the winner will receive at least ONE MILLION PESOS for a P10,000 buy-in.
The New Metro, with a seating capacity of 300 players, had to resort to giving late-comers alternate seats, and also had to turn away dozens of other hopefuls who wanted to join but didn’t make the cutoff. Several disappointed players who were used to local tournaments starting late and always not filling to capacity expected to have seats available due to the fact that The New Metro can seat 300 players. Needless to say, this record turnout exceeded all expectations both from the organizers and also the local poker community.
This momentous event just shows that poker is still geared toward a tremendous explosion in popularity here in the country. The Metro Card Club, with its vision of making poker a mainstream sport and activity, has proven it today with this tournament.
Stay tuned to this website for more updates on the tournament.
Come and watch the tournament at the New Metro Card Club, still located at Metrowalk Commercial Complex. Be a part of history! See you at The Metro!
Posted by The Metro on October 5, 2008 under News & Updates.
October 5th, 2008 at 7:08 PM
metro rulezz!!! the best poker poker room here and in asia!!!
October 6th, 2008 at 10:04 AM
cant wait to see the poker stars replay on tv. are they gonna come out with a dvd?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:55 PM
Just wondering if we could get some player updates on the FPT5, especially how did the PokerStars satellite players do?
October 9th, 2008 at 8:32 PM
Web Hustler ,
San piniplay ng pokertars ung fpt 1 to 5? sa pokerstars.tv ba?