The 888Live of poker was launched by 888poker the online poker provider back in January. 888 is a fast growing brand of poker games in the industry and the 888Live is a program designed to bring the live experience and excitement to poker players across the globe.

The 888Live events hold easy to buy buy-ins that range from €200-€400 and it selects a series of local casinos located in countries like Spain, UK, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Australia, Canada, and Croatia. The 10th Local event by 888Live will be held between May 29 and 31. This will also mark the return of the Live Local Event to Aspers Casino, Westfield, London. When it was inaugurated it attracted some 600 entries and held a prize pool which simply doubled the guarantee money of £125,000.

The current event to be held will have 400 plus players taking part and the guarantee money will be £50,000. The competition is expected to be international audience. John Scanlon, Head of Poker at Aspers excitedly said that the most popular poker tournament is returning to the casino and ardently hoped that it will be bigger and better compared to earlier tournaments. He further said that the association with 888poker has paid great dividends and have been among the best that they provided to players.

What he meant was that making the decision of hosting the event again at the Aspers was a great stroke of genius. The Aspers event will have more than the 500 cap and with the extra 119 entries the event has potentially amassed a tremendous GBP 122,562 prize pool. Well it appears really exciting and if you are interested in enrolling the 888poker establishment also provides you with the opportunity via online satellites to get selected for a seat that would cost just $1.