Event #59: $1,000 Tag Team Gets Underway at 2:00 P.M.
Today at 2 p.m. local time, Day 1 of Event #57: $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold��em takes off which is considered the most fun tournament of the 51st Annual World Series of Poker by some. In this unique event, only one partner is allowed, unlike in previous years.
The tag team concept was first introduced here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in 2016. Doug Polk and Ryan Fee defeated the 863-strong field. The second time the event was held in 2017 it was Aditya Sushant and Nipun Java who beat Pablo Mariz and David Guay heads-up when the tournament attracted 843 teams. This also meant that they won the first two bracelets ever for India. 2019 saw Barak Wisbod, Daniel Dayan, and Ohad Geiger take down the field of 976 entries and bring home $56,131 each.
This year, the event will be a three-day tournament with 11 levels of play scheduled for the first two days. Each level will last 60 minutes and all teams will start with 20,000 chips. Late registration is possible for the first eight levels until approximately 10 p.m. local time. There are no breaks during the tournament except for the color-up breaks.
All teams must register together, each teammate must check in at their table prior to the end of the registration period. All teammates must play at least one round of blinds at some point in the tournament or the whole team will be disqualified. Players may tag a teammate anytime they��re not in an active hand and the payouts will be calculated based on the number of teams and distributed evenly amongst the teammates.
The PokerNews live reporting team will be chasing all the tag team action on the floor so make sure to see which team will work together the best to win their bracelets at the end of the line.