Here are four of the major tournaments set to begin over the next few days and information about what one might expect from them.
PokerStars Megastack Namur
The festival will include four tournaments and several satellites to the Main Event. And action at the host casino will kick off namely with the PokerStars Megastack Main Event. The tournament will run from today all the way through September 30 and will feature six starting flights and two more days of action. It will be a €170 buy-in event and will start off with a guaranteed prize pool of €100,000.
Another thrilling tournament on the Megastack festival’s schedule will be the €550 High Roller. That one will run on September 29-30.
WPT DeepStacks Vietnam
One of Asia’s most thrilling destinations will welcome the WPT DeepStacks series with a 2-day Welcome WPT Vietnam VND7,700,000 tournament. As for the highlight tournament, the VND22,000,000 Main Event with a guaranteed prize pool of VND8 billion it is scheduled to take place on September 28 through October 2.
The VND44,000,000 High Roller is another event worth being mentioned in our overview. The tournament will take place over three days – October 1-3 – and will feature two starting flights and one more day of play. It will allow a maximum of 2 re-entries per starting flight and will certainly offer tons of quality poker action.
Wynn Fall Classic
Its schedule includes 16 different tournaments, 15 of which will be No-Limit Hold’em ones. There will also be one Pot-Limit Omaha tournament within this classy festival for fans of that poker game.
The Wynn Fall Classic will start with the $550 No-Limit Hold’em Seniors tournament. The event will be a single-day one and will feature a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000. It is important to note that most of the events within the festival will be single-day ones. There will also be one two-day event, two three-day ones, and two four-day ones.
The Main Event will be one of the four-day tournaments. It will start on October 12 and will be completed on October 15. Interested players will be able to take part in it by paying a buy-in fee of $1,600. The tournament will feature a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000 that will hopefully be crushed.
partypoker MILLIONS Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham
The festival is set to feature more than £7 million in guaranteed prize money. This speaks volumes about the quality of poker that players and spectators will be able to witness at the host venue.
The £1,100 No-Limit Hold’em MILLIONS UK Open will put the beginning of action within the festival. The event will feature a guaranteed prize pool of £1 million. There will be five starting flights and three more days of play.
The £5,300 Main Event will be the next big tournament to kick off. It will take place on September 30-October 6. There will be at least £5 million up for grabs for those who run deep enough into this prestigious tournament.
The £550 MILLIONS UK Finale with five starting flights and the £10,300 High Roller are two other exciting events that should be mentioned. The former will take place October 4-7 and will feature a guaranteed prize pool of £500,000, while the latter will run from October 5 through October 7 and will feature a guaranteed prize pool of £1 million.
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Total first-half revenue, including the company’s money lending business and hotel operations, was HKD130.5 million ($16.7 million), compared to HKD296.8 million ($38 million) during the corresponding period last year, a 56% decline. Profit for the period was HKD124.4 million ($15.9 million), compared to HKD39.9 million ($5.1 million) in the same period last year.
It has been an eventful year for Playtech and a particularly turbulent one at the same time. The gambling technology company, founded by Israeli businessman Teddy Sagi in 1999, saw its share price fall nearly 50% over the past 12 months and recorded a 34% drop in adjusted profit in the first half of the year. In addition, news emerged that a brand-new Playtech investor is pushing for a corporate governance overhaul and is not very happy about Mr. Sagi’s involvement in the company. 
Playtech has long been targeting a FTSE 100 status. However, it was forced to abandon these ambitions after issuing two profit warnings over the past year and reporting a 34% slump in adjusted profit for the first half of the year. The profit warnings and the eventual significant drop resulted in the company’s share price falling by half over the past 12 months. 
News emerged last month that SpringOwl Asset Management had invested more than $100 million into Playtech over the span of several weeks, thus acquiring a 5% stake in the company. The New York-based hedge fund is led by US investor Jason Ader, who among other things is known for playing a key role in bwin.party Digital Entertainment’s sale to GVC Holdings. Mr. Ader used his holding in bwin.party to press for the gambling operator’s sale following a prolonged proxy fight with the company’s board which involved him criticizing board members for failing to properly execute the 2010 merger of bwin and Party Gaming, which resulted in a 60% decline in share price. 
As mentioned above, Playtech sold recently its entire stake in CFD trading platform Plus500 for the amount of £176 million. The company said in a statement that it would use the money it has raked in from the sale to reduce its debt and for other corporate purposes. 
Poker action at the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek in Florida is heating up as the WSOP Circuit stop currently taking place there is approaching its final stages and last events on the schedule are being played. 
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