Sarasota picked a good week to be the center of the poker map. The Summer Showdown Main Event lands at One Eyed Jacks this weekend - $1,100 buy-in, $250,000 guaranteed, 20K starting stacks - and the whole week bends toward it.
Here's how it lays out:
- Tuesday warms up with the Colossus ($80, 25K stack, 1:00 PM) and the Fab 40 ($40, 6:30 PM).
- Wednesday runs the Mega Stack ($60, 1:00 PM), and the evening's Wacky No Rake ($100, 6:30 PM) is exactly what it sounds like.
- Thursday is your first road in: Fab 40 at 1:00, then the $240 Mega Satellite at 6:30 with Main Event seats on the line.
- Friday is Day 1A. Cards in the air at 1:00 PM - and if it gets away from you, the 6:30 Mega Satellite is another shot at Saturday's flight.
- Saturday is Day 1B at 11:00 AM, with one more Mega Satellite that evening.
- Sunday cools down with a $120 NL at 1:00 and a $130 Showdown Satellite at 5:00.
- Monday closes the stretch with Summer Showdown PLO ($150, 1:00 PM) for the four-card crowd.
Every event is on the board, and the room's full page is here. If you make a deep run, you know where to tell the story.