The Coast To Coast Poker Championships is a series of seven tournaments taking place between May 5th and May 13th. The big daddy of the Championships, The Coast To Coast main event, will begin on May 9th, with the final table scheduled for May 11th. This $3,000 ($2,800+$200) buy-in tournament will feature stars like “Yukon” Brad Booth and PokerRoad’s own Gavin Smith, along with a slew of Internet poker players eager to take advantage of Canada’s significantly more liberal age requirements (players need only be nineteen years old to play).

The three-day main event features sixty-minute blind levels and players start with $15,000 in tournament chips. Play is set to begin at noon.

The Championships are being held in the River Rock Casino Resort in beautiful Richmond, B.C. Richmond is located just twenty minutes away from both downtown Vancouver and the US Border, and is a five-minute drive from Vancouver’s international airport.

The River Rock Casino Resort is a four-diamond rated resort with amenities that include a nine hundred and fifty seat theater, nine restaurants and bars, a deluxe spa, a pool, and even a water slide. The River Rock Casino itself not only houses Canada’s largest poker room, but also has over nine hundred slot machines, a race book, and a full pit with blackjack, roulette, baccarat, and craps.

The Coast To Coast Poker Championships main event has a five hundred and fifty player cap, and early registration is advised. If the main event hits its cap (which is very likely) the first prizewinner will take home over $375,000 (and that’s Canadian money we’re talking about, not that piddly US stuff).

The following is the complete schedule for the 2008 Coast To Coast Poker Championships:

Event #1- May 5th
$500 No Limit Hold’em
Single Day Event
Limited Field

Event #2 - May 6th
$220 Super Satellite
Single Day Event
Awards (1) $4,000 C2C Package which includes
entry to events 3 & 4 – 1 package/20 entries

Event #3 - May 7th & 8th
$1,000 No Limit Hold’em with
$50 and $1,000 Bounties
Limited Field

Event #4 - May 9th, 10th, 11th
Main Event
$3,000 No Limit Hold’em
$15,000 Starting Chips
Limited Field

Event #5 - May 11th
Mothers Day Team Event & Brunch
$200 Buy-in includes team entry and two brunches
Limited to 200 teams

Event #6 - May 12th
$300 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha
Limited Field
Single Day Event

Event #7 - May 13th
$300 No Limit Hold’em
Limited Field
Single Day Event

*2% of prize pools withheld for tournament staff (excluding May 6th Super Satellite)

The Inaugural Coast To Coast Poker Championships should make for some exciting poker. Stick with PokerRoad.com as we bring you new episodes of PokerRoad Radio straight from the home turf of Gavin “The Caveman” Smith.

Preview by Mark Anderson