| Event 7: | $800 HORSE ($695 + $105) |
| Date: | Jan 12, 3 PM |
| Blinds: | 40 Minutes |
| Starting Stack: | 30k |
| Late Entry: | 9 Levels (~9:45) |
| Day 1 Ends: | 12 Levels (~11:45 PM) |
Sunday marks a new era in Alberta poker with the first HORSE tournament in modern memory. While Deerfoot put on a HOSE game a few years ago, razz wasn’t an approved game at the time, so they weren’t able to run the full HORSE rotation.
That has changed for 2025 and the full HORSE rotation will be in play for Event #7. The action will change games every 8 hands moving through limit holdem, limit O8, limit razz, limit stud, and limit stud8 before starting the rotation all over again.
The action gets going at 3 pm and there are nine levels of late entry on Day 1. That will put the final entry around 9:45 PM, with another three levels to play on Day 1 after that. At the end of Level 12 (which should be at about 11:45 PM), all remaining players will bag up their chips for Day 2 at 1 PM on Monday.
I won’t be watching Day 1 of this game very closely, but I plan to make it my main focus for Monday’s Day 2.
