The Minnesota State Poker Tour has been created by Bryan Mileski and Phil Mackey and will feature a series of 6 $1100 buy-in diamond bracelet tournaments. The idea is to provide more affordable prestige tournaments (hence the bracelets) while still having large fields and big payouts.
The structures are also very deep stack. The main event tournaments will see players starting with 15,000 in chips and blind levels that are 50 minutes long.
While the "Tour" doesn't fully begin until February 2010, with an event scheduled for Grand Casino Mille Lacs in Onamia, a "launch" event is planned for December at Canterbury Park. Other locations being slated for the tour include Running Aces, Northern Lights (Walker), Jackpot Junction (Morton) and Grand Casino Hinckley.
Of the two founders, you may recognize Phil Mackey - a radio personality from KFAN (though we're not sure he's actually still on - their poker radio show seems to have died last year in November after 18 episodes and the baseball season has ended for the Twins).
This tour could end up being a great end-of-season prize for home leagues throughout the state with Satellites for each main event priced at $250.
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