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The Festival Series Main Event Bratislava 2023 – Tournament Structure

Live poker tournaments are often built around the flagship tournament called the Main Event. Now that we have two Main Events at The Festival Series, and already have shared information about one of them yesterday, it is time now for the biggest of them all The NLHE Main Event. For a mere buy-in of €550 and a guaranteed prize pool of a tasty €500.000, players from all around will try to scoop the biggest chunk of it. It will be the 3^rd time for us to be a guest at Banco Casino Bratislava, and this time will be even more epic than ever before!

The reigning champion of our Bratislava Main Event is Dutchman Michel Molenaar, who recently moved to Vienna to continue his quest to become one of the world’s best poker players. With his win in 2022, he collected not only €126.650 and received the most honourable trophy of them all, but he also got the record of the biggest live poker cash in Slovakian history to his name. Being active in the live poker scene on a much higher scale after that win, he luckily found a spot in his fully packed schedule to come to visit us this week as well. Good luck, Champ!

A year before the biggest field in a Main Event of The Festival Series history, it was Martin Mauthner from Austria who claimed the title back in 2021. ‘The European Sammy Fahra’, living in Austria, managed to best a field of 621 entries and crowned himself as the Main Event Champion. He received €56.870 for his outstanding performance, and we hopefully will see him again this year as well!

Tournament Structure

The tournament structure of the previous edition in Bratislava will be maintained this year as well. We have received loads of feedback on the premise and through our social media channels that the structure was incredible to play. With a 30,000 starting stack and 40-minute blind levels, the chances of grinding your up to decent heights are very much likely. With the usual amount of six starting days, it will fit into anyone’s tournament schedule. In case you have no time to visit the event during the week, or prefer to play one of many side events, there is a chance of registering yourself until the end of the second blind level on Day 2.  

ID	Type	Small Blind	Big Blind	Ante	Duration
1	Level	100	100		40 min.
2	Level	100	100	100	40 min.
3	Level	100	200	200	40 min.
	Break				20 min.
4	Level	100	300	300	40 min.
5	Level	200	400	400	40 min.
6	Level	200	500	500	40 min.
	Break				20 min.
7	Level	300	600	600	40 min.
8	Level	400	800	800	40 min.
9	Level	500	1 000	1 000	40 min.
	Break				20 min.
10	Level	600	1 200	1 200	40 min.
11	Level	800	1 600	1 600	40 min.
12	Level	1 000	2 000	2 000	40 min.
	End of Day 1
13	Level	1 000	3 000	3 000	45 min.
14	Level	2 000	4 000	4 000	45 min.
	Break				20 min.
15	Level	2 000	5 000	5 000	45 min.
16	Level	3 000	6 000	6 000	45 min.
17	Level	4 000	8 000	8 000	45 min.
18	Level	5 000	10 000	10 000	45 min.
19	Level	6 000	12 000	12 000	45 min.
20	Level	8 000	16 000	16 000	45 min.
	Break				20 min.
21	Level	10 000	20 000	20 000	45 min.
22	Level	15 000	30 000	30 000	45 min.
23	Level	20 000	40 000	40 000	45 min.
	Break				20 min.
24	Level	25 000	50 000	50 000	45 min.
25	Level	30 000	60 000	60 000	45 min.
26	Level	40 000	80 000	80 000	45 min.
	Break				20 min.
27	Level	50 000	100 000	100 000	45 min.
28	Level	60 000	120 000	120 000	45 min.
29	Level	80 000	160 000	160 000	45 min.
	Break				20 min.
30	Level	100 000	200 000	200 000	45 min.
31	Level	125 000	250 000	250 000	45 min.
32	Level	150 000	300 000	300 000	45 min.
	Break				20 min.
33	Level	200 000	400 000	400 000	45 min.
34	Level	250 000	500 000	500 000	25 min.
35	Level	300 000	600 000	600 000	25 min.
	Break				20 min.
36	Level	400 000	800 000	800 000	25 min.
37	Level	500 000	1 000 000	1 000 000	25 min.
38	Level	600 000	1 200 000	1 200 000	25 min.