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Scotty Nguyen

Poker players, get ready for the Midwest’s greatest poker tournament. It’s the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV, and it’s coming November 1-20 to Cherokee Casino Resort. The prize pool should exceed $2 million. Cherokee Casino Resort and poker legend Scotty Nguyen draw poker’s best competitors for non-stop action and more events than ever.

“Each Scotty Nguyen tournament stirs up lots of excitement here at Cherokee Casino Resort,” said David Stewart, CEO of Cherokee NationEnterprises, which operates Cherokee Casinos. “Scotty Nguyen is such an exciting and fun professional poker player, we are lucky to have him represent Cherokee Casino Resort. Poker is a key attraction here at the casino, and we offer our guests the best with the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge IV.”

The SNPC IV will run for 20 days, the longest Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge yet. The tournament added six more days to the schedule, and six additional events are planned, for a total of 31 events. Events scheduled are Jack and Jill, Texas hold’em, 7-card stud, Omaha, and Omaha/8. Players will find no-limit, pot-limit, and fixed-limit events, with buy-ins from $120-$5,150.

The Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge III, hosted this past May, attracted approximately 5,000 entries from more than 2,200 players from across the country and featured a prize pool that exceeded $1.7 million. Half of the tournament players were from outside of Oklahoma, and represented 42 states and two Canadian provinces.

Ninetyone players took a seat in the main event’s 11 tables of no-limit hold’em with a prize pool of $468,650. Poker pro Kido Pham won it to take home $176,359. Winner of the Scotty Nguyen Poker Challenge II, poker pro Nam Le, placed second, taking home $101,406. The SNPC III main event play can be seen on Oklahoma’s Cox cable this September. Check listings for channel and air times.

For this fall’s SNPC IV, players can earn their seats by playing single table satellites beginning September 1, with buy-ins ranging from $45-$540. Super Satellites will run nightly at 9:00 p.m. beginning November 1 with $230 buy-ins and $100 re-buys. The SNPC IV will have five Mega Super Satellites Tournaments November 10, 15, 16, and two on November 17, with buy-ins ranging from $230- $550. Winners of the Mega Super Satellites will win a seat into the SNPC IV Main Event.

With more than 30 poker tables, including four Poker Pro tables, Cherokee Casino Resort boasts the titles of the “Best Place to Place Your Bets” in Oklahoma, by a recent poll in “Oklahoma Magazine,” and the best “Place for Table Games” in Tulsa by “Urban Tulsa Weekly.”

For more information or for a full schedule of events, visit www.CherokeeCasino. com.

For VIP Services, call Sal De Leone at (918) 384-6647 or email him at Salvatore. DeLeone@cnent.com. To reserve a hotel room or for special room rates available to SNPC IV participants, call (800) 760-6700.

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