Commerce Casino announces schedule for 2011 LA Poker Classic

Commerce Casino has unveiled a new lineup of tournaments for the 2011 LA Poker Classic, which offers poker players a total of $2 million in guaranteed prizes, as well as 53 events running from January 19th to March 3rd, 2011.

The 43-day long tournament series will be highlighted by the $10,000 LA Poker Classic Main Event, and the World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational. Anchored by these two major World Poker Tour (WPT) events, the LAPC features an estimated $20 million total prize pool, as well as events featuring buy-ins ranging from $125 for a multi-start No Limit Hold'em Turbo event on Feb. 2 to $25,100 for the internationally renowned Commerce High Roller Tournament scheduled on Sunday, Feb. 27. The World Poker Tour events will be broadcast on Fox Sports Net (FSN).

Other events include the opening $335-buy-in, four-day-start tourney featuring a $1 million guarantee prize pool, plus the recently added $545 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Senior Championship for players over the age of 50 and awarding a seat at the $10,000 Main Event to the winner.

Satellite for the are available for as little as $42. Commerce Casino will also host a series of nightly $225 Supersatellites for the Main Event. Furthermore, any player winning a seat in one of the 7 p.m. nightly Supersatellites for the Main Event will ALSO get a seat in WPT Invitational!

2011 LA Poker Classic guaranteed events include:
$300,000 four-day-start No Limit Hold'em featuring a $125-buy-in (Feb. 2)
$100,000 No Limit Hold'em with rebuys $125 buy-in (Feb. 12)
$100,000 Knockout Bounty No Limit Hold'em with $335 buy-in (Feb. 13)
$100,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout for $335 (Feb. 18)
$100,000 No Limit Hold'em with $335-buy-in (Feb. 21).

$50,000 guaranteed events:
$335 buy-in No Limit Hold'em (Jan 23)
$545 buy-in 7-Card Stud (Jan. 24)
$335 Omaha 8 or Better (Jan. 25)
$220 buy-in No Limit Hold'em Turbo (Feb. 11).

"You can't get much better than this. We've carefully crafted the 2011 LAPC schedule to provide great payouts, plenty of variety, exciting challenges, and structures the players will love. The LAPC has become one of the two MUST-attend series in the U.S. for players, attracting an international field of poker all-stars, yet still being appealing and affordable to Southern Californians." says Tournament Director Matt Savage.