The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California indeed had the feel of a mid-major, even if it isn’t any NAPT stop, with a $5,000 buy-in, 417 players, and a prize pool almost reaching $2 million mark. Before you can enjoy these rewards however, you do need to go through the Titan Poker download process.
It definitely felt like a PokerStars sponsored event as Team PokerStars Pros Joe Hachem and Victor Ramdin ended up in the top two slots at the final table, with Ramdin defeating Hachem to claim the victory and the top payday of massive $500,000. By far, this is Ramdin’s biggest payday since 2006 as he won the Foxwoods Poker Classic. In addition to those direct Titan Poker freeroll tournaments, you’ll find that there are also freeroll satellites available from time to time.
The five-day event was initially scheduled to be the latest stop on the NAPT, but the week before the tournament was set to begin, PokerStars announced the NAPT-branding would be removed from the event. Despite the last minute exclusion of television coverage and the NAPT moniker, the event turnout well and a number of big pros, including Daniel Negreanu, Justin Smith, Adam Levy, Randal Flowers, Joe Cada, Jennifer Tilly, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko.