While officials obviously hoped for such a turnout, it was never guaranteed. Add to that, the announced first-place prize of $361,660 (which includes an entry into the $10,400 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas in December) is set to be the largest tournament payout in Thunder Valley history. That sum is a new all-time record prize pool for the card room, and the number of runners exceeds the previous best number of WPT Rolling Thunder entries – 465 in 2014 – by 125. With the support of the players and the Northern California poker tournament scene at large, long-held Thunder Valley property records for both attendance and prize pools were shattered at an electrifying, season-opening 2023 WPT Rolling Thunder.īy the time registration had closed, after the first two levels of Day 2, a total of 590 entries pushed the prize pool to $1,888,000. The tag team partners of the World Poker Tour and Thunder Valley Casino Resort proved, once again, to be a winning combination. It was a packed house at Thunder Valley for WPT Rolling Thunder.

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