International Stadiums Poker Tour Attendance Confirmation at 550 Players

PokerNews.com is reporting that 550 players have been confirmed for the highly anticipated first ever International Stadiums Poker Tour at Wembley Stadium.

The event, with an initial kickoff online to determine live qualifiers, will take place May 31 thru June 1.

From PokerNews.com:

Ten percent of the €300 buy-in Day 1 fields advanced to the live part of the tournament in London, where action will take place on the Wembley lawn from Days 2 through 6. All players who advanced online on Day 1 will take the number of chips they accrued into Day 2a at Wembley.

The rest of the field will buy in directly for €3,000. Those players will begin Day 2 with 50,000 chips, with blinds starting at 100/200 and levels lasting 60 minutes.

Big name pros the likes of Michael Mizrachi, Sam Trickett and Liz Lieu will be taking part in the event.

- Patrick Flanagan, Gambling911.com