Jeff Foxworthy is returning to Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort Event Center on February 15. Jeff Foxworthy is one of the most respected and successful comedians in the country. He is the largest selling comedy-recording artist in history, a multiple Grammy Award nominee and best selling author of more than 26 books. Do not miss Jeff Foxworthy live. Welcome to Senior Poker Tour, your home for events dedicated to players 50 years of age and older. We have been busy developing our newest series, the State Senior Poker Championships. This exciting new program is currently being scheduled with the 26 states that allow legal poker play. The 2017/2018 season of the WSOP Circuit is drawing to a close. There are just a few stops on its schedule and Harrah’s Cherokee casino in North Carolina is one of these. The gambling venue will play host to the popular series from April 12 to April 23. There will be 12 gold ring events on the schedule and several more special tournaments. Dec 28, 2019  Casino at Harrah’s Cherokee: HONEST REVIEW ON PAYOUTS - See 3,841 traveler reviews, 311 candid photos, and great deals for Cherokee, NC, at TripAdvisor. The best poker action is here at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort! We now feature all live games and live tournaments in our 20 table, tobacco free room. You can also check the Bravo Poker Live app at any time to see what games are being played. Do you have the hot hand? $100 hourly high hands Monday through Thursday, 4pm-7pm.

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Harrah’s Casino in Cherokee, North Carolina, has brought in millions of visitors and millions of dollars in gaming revenue. But some worry the tribe’s history is getting lost in the business. Complete schedule and details for 2018-19 WSOPC North Carolina (Fall) at Harrah's Cherokee in Cherokee, NC, including registration times, buy-ins, blind. The WSOP Circuit returns to Harrah's Cherokee for the second of 3 stops during the 2018-19 schedule, from Nov. Filter Results. It is a smaller quiet poker room and the.

A field of 128 players showed up at the Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort for Day 1 of the WSOP Global Casino Championship. It was an action-packed day that saw the field dwindle to just 53 players with Joshua Turner running over the majority of them to bag a whopping chip lead.

Turner capped off his impressive day by putting 649,000 chips in his bag, meaning he will return for Day 2 with nearly 220 big blinds. Turner earned his way into the tournament by finishing twelfth on the 2018 WSOP Circuit player-of-the-year leaderboard with one circuit ring and 17 cashes for a total of over $182,000 in earnings.

The St. Louis, MO native has accumulated over $2 million in career tournament winnings with his largest career cash coming at the 2018 WSOP $1,000 Double Stack where he finished third for $294,760. Turner is still looking to capture his first-ever WSOP gold bracelet, and he can do that here in Cherokee this week.

Turner's closest competitor was his tablemate for the last few levels of the day, Stephen Song. The number one player on the WSOP circuit player-of-the-year leaderboard finished with a distant 374,500 chips, still good enough for over 120 big blinds. Song had one of his most successful years on the poker tour and is looking to finish it off in style. Rounding out the top three counts for the day was none other than circuit-pro Maurice Hawkins with 363,000 chips. With a record thirteen circuit rings to his name, Hawkins is still in search for his first bracelet, and this could be the best place for him to earn that.

2018/2019 WSOP Global Casino Championship Main Event Top 10 Chip Counts After Day 1

In this invitation-only event, there were plenty of notables scattered throughout the tournament area. For each circuit event within the past year, the Main Event winner and the Casino Champion each earned their way into this event. In addition, the top 50 players on the season leaderboard also received a free entry. The only other way to enter this event was to buy-in for $10,000 under the conditions that you were in the top 100 on the WSOP player-of-the-year standings or had a circuit ring from this season.

There were only four players who have currently bought into the event which has pushed the prize pool slightly over the guaranteed $1,000,000. Late registration will remain open until the start of play on Day 2 at which point the prize pool and payouts will be posted.

Some other familiar faces to move on to Day 2 include Valentin Vornicu (238,000), Jake Bazeley (209,500), defending champion Warren Sheaves (167,500), PokerNews reporter Mo Nuwwarah (150,000), and Alex Lynskey (58,000).

The day wasn't so positive for everyone has many names also hit the rail with over half the field being eliminated. The likes of Martin Kabrhel, Ryan Leng, Nick Pupillo, WSOP dealer of the year Heather Alcorn, Ari Engel, Joe Cada, and Kevin Eyster were sent packing.

The action on Day 2 will resume Aug. 7 at 2 pm local time with the blinds continuing on level 11 at 1,000/2,500 and a 2,500 big blind ante. There will be a 15-minute break after every two levels with a 60-minute dinner break after the sixth level. The schedule indicates that play will continue until just six players remain, but that could always change based on the pace of play.

PokerNews is on the floor providing live reporting updates, so check the 2018/19 WSOP Global Casino Championship Main Event Live Updates page to stay up to date and check out the Day 2 seat draw!

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The World Series of Poker announced this week that it has set the WSOP Circuit season-ending Global Casino Championship for August 6th through August 8th of this year. And for the fifth year in a row, it will be hosted by Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort in North Carolina.

Harrah’s Cherokee is an interesting venue at which to establish a major poker event. It is certainly not up there in name recognition with the Bellagio, Rio, Borgata, or even a place like Seminole Hard Rock, but the WSOP has put it on the map. In addition to being the location for the Global Casino Championship, it was the venue for two separate WSOP Circuit tour stops during the 2018-2019 season. Harrah’s Cherokee is located in the far southwestern corner of North Carolina, about a three-hour drive west of Charlotte, very close to the Tennessee border and not far from both Georgia and South Carolina. It is also one of the only casinos and poker venues within any sort of reasonable drive of Atlanta (about three hours, as well, which should tell you how poker-barren Georgia is). It is very much a regional casino.

Don’t Try to Get In Without an Invitation

As mentioned, the Global Casino Championship is the culminating event of the WSOP Circuit season. Similar to the World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions, the GCC is an invite-only tournament. Unlike the Tournament of Champions, though, there are multiple ways a poker player can automatically qualify:

1) Win the Main Event at a domestic (that is, United States) or international WSOP Circuit stop.
2) Claim the Casino Champion title at a domestic or international WSOP Circuit stop.
3) Finish the 2018-2019 WSOP Circuit season in the top 50 of the domestic WSOP Circuit leaderboard.

To the second bullet above, the Casino Champion is the player at a tour stop who earns the most points based on their performance across the stop’s twelve “ring” events.

As many as 132 players will be automatic qualifiers for the Global Casino Championship, but it is almost a certainty that there will be overlap in that group, so the number will be somewhere below 132. A Main Event winner could also be the Casino Champion at that location. A Casino Champion could very likely end up in the top 50 on the leaderboard. If a Main Event winner or Casino Champion also ends up in the top 50 on the leaderboard, the number of leaderboard automatic qualifiers will be reduced by one.

Not everyone who qualifies will participate, either. As an incentive to get as many people playing as possible, the WSOP is awarding all automatic qualifiers a $500 travel stipend and a three-night stay at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort. All international players and those who make the final table will get an extra hotel night, as well. This is all in addition to the comped entry into the Global Casino Championship.

Everyone who finished in the top 100 of the 2018 World Series of Poker Player of the Year rankings and anyone who won a WSOP Circuit ring event but did not meet the automatic qualification criteria is also eligible to play in the GCC, but they must pay the $10,000 buy-in and it doesn’t look like they get free lodging and travel. Their buy-ins will be added to the prize pool without rake, though, and that is on top of the $1 million guarantee.

A Few Spots Still Open

There are still four domestic WSOP Circuit stops remaining for the 2018-2019, so there is still time for players to try to qualify for the Global Casino Championship (though one stop is about to end):

Horseshoe Council Bluffs – March 28th through April 8th
Harrah’s Cherokee – April 10th through April 22nd
Horseshoe Tunica – April 25th through May 5th
Harrah’s New Orleans – May 9th through May 20th

For players not in the United States, there are three stops remaining (like the above, one is currently in motion):

Dusk Till Dawn (Nottingham, England) – March 31st through April 14th
Casino Barriere le Croisette (Cannes, France) – April 11th through April 22nd
Casino de Marrakech (Marrakech, Morocco) – June 15th through June 23rd

The current cutoff for the WSOP Circuit leaderboard is 165 points. Aaron Messmer holds the 50th spot with two rings and seven cashes this season. Stephen Buell also has 165 points, but he is listed in 51st place. The tiebreaker is total money earnings on the season. Messmer has $160,595 while Buell has $41,298. It is not rings or number of cashes, as there are instances of players tied in points elsewhere on the leaderboard where the lower-ranked player has more ring wins or number of cashes.

Stephen Song is in first place on the leaderboard right now with 320 points. Carl Brewington has won the most rings – three – and several others have won two. Darren Martin has the most WSOP Circuit cashes this season with 22, while Nicholas Pupillo is the top money earner with $397,489 (on only a dozen cashes).

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