British Columbia Championship Kicks off Thursday

Starting Thursday, November 20 and running through Sunday, November 23, the fourth annual British Columbia Poker Championship which will be televised from the River Rock Casino Resort in Richmond, British Columbia.  Other than the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship which is hosted in Niagara Falls, Ontario, this is the second largest poker tournament of the year.  Featuring a 25 table Poker Room that spreads both limit and no limit Texas Hold’em, Omaha, Omaha either or better, seven card stud as well as daily poker tournaments, the River Rock Casino Resort is the largest casino in Western Canada.

The British Columbia Poker Championship has attracted many well known poker professionals including Canadians Daniel Negreanu, Brad “Yukon” Booth and Gavin Smith.  Boasting an action packed schedule that includes four preliminary events and the main event which is a $2,500 no limit hold’em tournament.  Below is the main event schedule with all tournament days kicking off at noon PST:

Thursday, Nov. 20: Day 1

Friday, Nov. 21: Day 2
Saturday, Nov. 22: Day 3
Sunday, Nov. 24: Final table
Players will begin with 15,000 in chips and levels will be 60 minutes long.

Last year the British Columbia Poker Championships attracted 643 entrants with a buy in $2,500 and a total prize pool of $1,610,000 paying out to the top 65 places.  First place was won by Daniel Idema who took home the main event prize pool of $402,500.  The 2008 B.C. Poker Championships are expecting another impressive turn out of entrants and professional poker players to keep this Canadian tournament tops in the country.