- PKR’s biannual tournament series this year will be spiced up by the addition of a Mixed Max event.
- The PKR event will be a $500 buyin tournament where the first day is played at nine player tables.
- Day 2 switches to 6 player tables and when 16 players remain Day 3 will be played as a heads-up shootout.
PKR’s biannual tournament series prides itself on being a friendly event in the poker calendar—this year it will be spiced up by the addition of a Mixed Max event.
The Mixed Max format was popularized by the WSOP Europe which has included the format since 2011. The PKR event will be a $500 buyin tournament where the first day is played at nine player tables. Day 2 switches to 6 player tables and when 16 players remain Day 3 will be played as a heads-up shootout.
The heads up matches will be seeded by stack size with the chip leader matched against the short stack and so on. The dynamic makes building a large stack before the heads up phase an important strategy.
The event will come ninth in the PKR Live series, running from March 28 to March 30 at London’s Aspers Stratford supercasino.
PKR’s Head of PR Dan Grant said, “Mixed Max is a real test of versatility and one we hope both our own players and the UK poker circuit will embrace.”
The first WSOP Mixed Max tournament was initially called a “Split Format” event, but Jack Effel, WSOP Tournament Director explained that the name quickly changed: “Once we had it that first year, players started calling it the ‘Mixed Max’. They renamed it, and it just stuck.”
