The coronavirus outbreak led to an abrupt halt of live tournament poker action in March of 2020. While the global poker circuit effectively ceased all operations over the course of just a few days, the return of tournament action is likely to be much more gradual.

The first major poker room in the world to reopen its doors was the King’s Casino Rozvadov, which is one of the largest rooms in Europe. It resumed operations on May 11, nearly two months after it first announced a temporary closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cards were in the air in Rozvadov for two weeks before the venue hosted their first live tournament series, called The Big Week, which ran from May 25 – 31. The venue has continued to offer a selection of smaller daily tournaments and short series since resuming tournament action in late May.

Details about registration, buy-in, format, and structure for the Ebro Poker Room 6:00pm $60 NL Holdem - No-Limit Hold'em - 7-Handed (4 Table Max) poker tournament in Ebro, FL. Presentation of the Ebro Greyhound Park Poker Room. The casino offers horse and dog races at the Ebro Greyhound Track. It also features a large poker room, the unique one in the town. Within a convivial atmosphere, the poker room is equipped with more than 25 tables.

Stateside, a number of poker rooms also resumed operations with only cash games available at first. Casinos in Florida began reopening in late May, including Derby Lane in St. Petersburg, the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa, and bestbet Jacksonville and bestbet Orange Park.

The Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, which resumed operations on June 12, recently announced that they would resume spreading select daily tournaments on June 23, after having first reopened on May 21. Derby Lane resumed spreading tournament events on June 6. Both venues currently include a maximum number of participants for their events.

“We are going to start offering tournaments again in July,” bestbet Director of Poker Jesse Hollander told Card Player. “We will likely have three tournaments a week in Jacksonville and two a week at Orange Park, no-limit hold’em tournaments with buy-ins of $60 and $150. We will offer those in July, and hopefully will offer more starting in August.”

The Las Vegas strip reopened on June 4, and with it three poker rooms resumed operations: The Venetian Poker Room (pictured above before the outbreak), the Orleans Poker Room and the South Point Poker Room. The Golden Nugget followed suit a couple days later, and three more rooms opened on June 18 at Bellagio, Caesars Palace, and Sahara. The Venetian was the first to announce a return to multi-table tournament action. The room will host two $250 buy-in no-limit hold’em shootout events, with one each on June 19 and June 20, with an eighty-player cap for the field and an 11:00 a.m. start time.

The events will have a maximum of five players per table, and will follow the shootout format that sees each table play down to a winner before moving on to the next round. The second round will shift to four-handed action, with the winners from those tables combining onto the final table of four to play down to a champion.

While these rooms and others around the country, and the world, have just begun to host live poker tournaments again, no major poker tours have yet announced the resumption of their publicly released schedules.

“I believe to have large scale multi-table tournaments [running again], the most important thing is that some restrictions have to be lifted,” said World Poker Tour Executive Tour Director Matt Savage. “Travel restrictions so that players can attend, capacity restrictions so that tournaments don’t have to be capped, and player per table restrictions so that tournaments can be played more than six-handed so that the properties that are open are fine with giving up cash games to run less profitable tournaments while maximizing attendance.”

Savage spoke to Card Player about the Coronavirus’ impact on the live tournament scene back in late April. In that discussion, he highlighted the most important factor for himself and other tournament organizers: the wellbeing of those involved in putting on and playing in potential events.

“The top priorities for us are to make sure that the players are safe and make sure our staff are safe,” said Savage.

Exciting Greyhound Racing & Poker!

EBRO Greyhound Park and Poker Room is only minutes from Panama City Beach and is situated just 15 miles up Highway 79. Join us at the Pan Handle’s excitement venue where you can make your dreams come true. Whether it’s enjoying the atmosphere of the Poker room, cheering home your favorite numbers and runners at the greyhounds, dining in one of the finest restaurants in the Pan Handle or simply relaxing with friends and family, Ebro offers it all. There are few places in North Florida that offers it all and your entertainment dollar goes further at Ebro than anywhere else in the area.

The 2014 racing season “kicks off” on in May with the first of the year’s stakes races the Inaugural and runs through until the end of September, culminating in the season’s “blue riband” classic, the Ebro Derby. Racing six days a week with nightly 16 race cards plus Saturday’s double header matinee and evening performances, you get to play and win on the fastest sport on legs! Play to win, place, quiniela, trifecta and follow the experts to give yourself a chance to grab the biggest pay-out of your life.

Tuesday nights are Family nights at Ebro with free admission and $1 hot dogs and drinks; value you won’t find anywhere else in the area. On-going promotions throughout the season add further excitement with details to be announced but expect to be able to win prizes and cash “a la” Las Vegas style where there’s something happening all the time.

Then there’s Ebro’s famous Poker Room where casual players have become legends over the years winning huge amounts of money simply by making the decision to play. Huge jackpots worth thousands of dollars are on offer all the time and someone’s got to win them…why can’t it be you!

The Poker room rarely sleeps and is open from 9.00am to 3.00am Sunday to Thursday and it’s open 24 hours each Friday and Saturday. Take part in the No-Limit Hold’em tournaments every day including the Midnight Madness events Saturday evenings. Then there’s the “grand daddy” of all tournaments, the Emerald Coast Championship during the second half of 2011 where you get to watch and rub shoulders with some of the biggest names in the sport. Friendly staff who are eager to serve you and make sure you have everything you need while dueling with others makes for an experience you’ll never forget.

Simulcast racing is available daily at Ebro with horse and greyhound racing from some of the country’s greatest racetracks. Famous tracks such as Churchill Downs, Santa Anita, Aqueduct, Gulfstream Park, Derby Lane and Jacksonville plus Jai Lai coverage from South Florida means you have choices constantly instead of waiting for the next event to play on.

The nation’s biggest stakes races are covered at Ebro including the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes which form racing’s most famous series, The Triple Crown. If you can’t be there live then be at Ebro with television monitors available on every corner of the track so you won’t have to miss a moment of the action. The Kentucky Derby is the world’s most famous horse race and you won’t believe the atmosphere you’ll experience at Ebro…it’s just like being there. Here’s this year’s Triple Crown schedule:

Gates open early at 9.00am on each day a Triple Crown race is run and you can enjoy the famous occasion with a special race day lunch most of the day.

Amazing Dining At Ebro Greyhound Park!

The dining experience at Ebro Greyhound Park is as good as anywhere on the beaches. Fine cuisine and casual dining come together as Ebro’s great team of chefs present fantastic meals daily. Smorgasbord buffet dining is also available on selected days so keep an eye on the announcements or call the track at 850.234.3943.

One of the great advantages of dining at Ebro is you never have to miss a minute of the action. Huge glass windows allow you to look out over the track – you can almost touch the greyhounds as they thunder around the course! And you never have to miss a minute of the simulcast action either with television screens covering every track scheduled keeping you in touch with what’s going on. Placing a wager is as easy as 1-2-3 with the friendly staff at the conveniently placed pari-mutuel windows ready to assist you if you need help making a bet.

Ebro Poker Tournaments

Just 15 miles along Highway 79 off Back Beach road or turn onto Highway 20 from Highways 77 and 231.

For more information, visit: www.goebro.com

Ebro Poker Tournaments

Address:
6558 Dog Track Road
Ebro, Florida 32437

Phone Number:
Toll-Free: 1.888.84.BEACH
Local: 1.850.234.2174

Ebro Poker Room Tournaments

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