Women’s Winter Festival Heats Up as the £400 Main Event Kicks Off at 1p.m

The wait is finally over! The highly anticipated PokerStars Women’s Winter Festival has officially begun at The Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square. The high-roller event kicked things off being the first of many exciting competitions set to light up the iconic venue in the coming days.

The centrepiece of the festival, the £400 Main Event, is a three-day showdown starting today at 1 p.m. with Day 1a. Boasting a guaranteed £100,000 prize pool, the tournament is expected to attract a great field of players, all eager to claim a share of the action.

Players will start the day with a stack of 30,000 chips and blinds will be 100/100 with 100 big blind ante in Level 1. Forty-minute levels will be played, with a break every three levels. There will be a 45-minute dinner break after Level 10, at approximately 8:40 p.m.

Late registration will be open until the end of the break after Level 10 (~9:25 p.m.) with each player limited to one reentry per flight. Play will stop for the day when 20% of the field remains. The prize pool will be announced at the start of Day 2 after all three starting flights have been played.

Stay tuned to PokerNews for live updates from the tournament floor throughout Day 1a, and follow our coverage as we track the action all the way to crowning the champion!