Poker players know what they want. These days, it is bounty tournaments. And Americas Cardroom is giving them all of the progressive knockout action they can handle.
The Winning Poker Network, featuring flagship site Americas Cardroom, just wrapped up its latest Venom tournament, which was a Venom PKO and soared right past its guarantee. Before that even finished, ACR announced a special knockout series – PKOSS – that runs through November 14. And if that wasn’t enough, the site is offering a Thanksgiving Bountyful Weekend over the upcoming holiday weekend with three multi-flight PKO tournaments.
Let’s break it down.
Latest Venom PKO Success
From mid-October through the beginning of November, the Winning Poker Network offered its latest Venom extravaganza. The $2,650 buy-in Venom PKO – its fifth iteration – offered four starting flights from October 20-31 and a $5 million guarantee.
The result was a stellar field:
-Total entries: 2,744-Total prize pool: $6.86M (half for bounties, half for prize pool)-Total paid players: 306-Minimum payout: $2,401
This Venom PKO was slightly smaller than the last one, which took place earlier in 2022. That one attracted 2,872 entries for a $7.18M prize pool. Even so, the latest one easily surpassed its guarantee.
Over the first days of November, this recent Venom PKO played down to its final table. Those eight players competed on a livestream on November 3 via Twitch in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. When they began the final table, Austrians artorollin and Amygdaluss held the top two chip positions, with Americans birdgang8 and JohnnyUtah next on the leaderboard. Lithuania’s dartazz was in fifth, BiTaMiHka and procurator – both of Belarus – were in sixth and seventh, and Justicepeanut of the United States was on the short stack.
Not even an hour and a half into the action, Amygdaluss had a dominating chip lead three-handed. When dartazz busted procurator in third place, heads-up play began and continued for almost an hour. But finally, dartazz pushed with Q-8 on a Q-7-6-K-J board, but Amygdaluss had K-Q.
With that, the final results were:
1st place: Amygdaluss (Austria) $483,630 + $342,902.59 in bounties2nd place: dartazz (Lithuania) $483,630 + $73,603.47 in bounties3rd place: procurator (Belarus) $306,985 + $13,144.53 in bounties 4th place: JohnnyUtah (USA) $217,805 + $49,985.34 in bounties5th place: artorollin (Austria) $152,635 + $34,804.68 in bounties 6th place: birdgang8 (USA) $119,364 + $17,724.60 in bounties7th place: BiTaMiHka (Belarus) $85,750 + $13,750.97 in bounties8th place: Justicepeanut (USA) $58,310 + $17,011.72 in bounties
Before the Venom even ended, ACR launched the PKO version of the Online Super Series (OSS), making it the PKOSS. The entire series kicked off on October 30 but runs through November 14. In total, there are 100 tournaments and $10M in guarantees.
With something for every bankroll, buy-ins start as low as $3 but offer a few $1K buy-ins as well. The series is already well underway, but there are many more tournaments on tap, including the following highlights that still offer open flights.
-$630 buy-in Main Event #1 (Event 85) with $1M GTD: Day 1A Nov 6 / Day 1B Nov 13 / Day 2 Nov 14-$109 buy-in Main Event #2 (Event 86) with $500K GTD: Day 1A Nov 6 / Day 1B Nov 13 / Day 2 Nov 14-$215 buy-in Multi-Flight #1 (Event 93) with $1M GTD: Flights through Nov 13 / Day 2 Nov 14-$55 buy-in Multi-Flight #2 (Event 94) with $250K GTD: Flights through Nov 13 / Day 2 Nov 14-$1.40 buy-in Multi-Flight #3 (Event 95) with $25K GTD: Flights through Nov 13 / Day 2 Nov 14
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As always, there are satellites into everything.
Bountyful Weekend
With the Thanksgiving holiday coming up for Americans, ACR found it fitting to schedule a weekend (November 24-27) of online poker for everyone. And it will be filled with more PKO action.
And with many of the ACR pros playing, the bonus is that knocking out any of those players garners double the usual bounty.
There will be three events comprising this series over that weekend as follows:
-$215 buy-in Multi-Flight PKO #1: Flights Nov 24-27 / Day 2 Nov 27-$55 buy-in Multi-Flight PKO #2: Flights Nov 24-27 / Day 2 Nov 27-$16.50 buy-in Multi-Flight PKO #3: Flights Nov 24-27 / Day 2 Nov 27
