PAGCOR TO HOST US$1 MILLION GUARANTEED POKER TOURNAMENT IN THE PHILIPPINES

The 2008 PAGCOR Charity Poker Event was held in the Coral Ballroom of the Manila Pavilion Hotel. 
Top local poker players duked it out to be named the champion.

PAGCOR will be conducting one of the biggest in Asia and the biggest ever locally-organized poker tournament in the Philippines.  “The First PAGCOR Chairman Efraim C. Genuino International Poker Tournament” guarantees a prize pool of US$1 Million.

The tournament is set on March 20 – 25, 2010 with eliminations at the Manila Pavilion Hotel in historic Manila, Philippines.  It will be one of the main events of the 5th Asian Gaming and Entertainment Expo (Asia’s GEM) at the SMX Convention Center where the tournament’s final table will also be held.

The tournament shall showcase top international poker players.  They shall be up against key players of licensed poker clubs and casinos from all over the Philippines to outlast each other and emerge as the last man (or woman) standing.

The event hopes to boost the poker industry in the Philippines and targets to bring slumbering poker talents in home games to come play it out at any of PAGCOR’s licensed poker clubs.                                                                                      » BACK TO HOME