Moshe Mashiah won the $164,627 first place prize and a total of 369 players grabbed their share of the prize pool.
The prize pool in the four-day event had a guaranteed $500,000 but it reached a whooping $753,730. With such a creative format, Commerce become the second largest land-based tournament in history with 3,967 players, with only World Series of Poker ahead of it. One of the novelties is the four-day $220 NL Hold'em event which had three starting days and the players were allowed to re-buy on the following starting day should they get busted the day before. It shows that a little creativity and an opportunity for a second chance at hundreds of thousands of dollars can reinvigorate poker.' ' Commerce was jam packed this past weekend. As we previously informed you here, the ' Commerce Casino Hold'em Series' implemented many novelties into the tournament format and it is proving to be a huge success.Ĭommerce Casino tournament director Matt Savage (pictured right) is behind these ideas and was quite pleased with the way the tournament series have been going so far:
