Players Ready for €230 TonyBet OFC Progressive Pineapple
Today the €230 TonyBet OFC Progressive Pineapple tournament gets underway at 5p.m. local time here at King's Casino. It carries a €5,000 guarantee and gives players the opportunity to swap two or four cards for 13!
The event is single re-entry event and sees a format which is not often spread in a tournament format across the world. In this tournament players will receive 20,000 in chips. Levels are 45 minutes and that is where the cost of points will increase.
Back in 2015 TonyBet Poker Ambassador Isabelle Mercier became the first-ever Open-Face Chinese Poker Progressive Pineapple world champion in Prague, outlasting a field of 108 entries to take home the €10,189 first prize.
After 12 hours of play Mercier beat a field featuring Jason Mercier, Max Pescatori and others, to collect the first-place prize as well as the honours. In the final heads-up battle Mercier defeated Germany’s Frank Gohletr.
Speaking then about her experience at the second OFC World Cup, Mercier highlighted the great differences that exist between playing OFC poker online and live.
"I am used to playing OFC on TonyBet Poker online all the time," Mercier said. "There, you don't really need to count: you just trust the software. You just count the odds and the software goes 'cha-ching, cha-ching, cha-ching' before moving onto the next hand."
Stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action from this fast-paced and exciting tournament.