Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open (HPO), which will feature eight stops, kicks off on Thursday, Nov, 13 at the Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg in Indiana. The stop will have a dozen “featured events” culminating in the $1,115 HPO Regional Main Event on Saturday, Nov. 22 at 12 p.m. In addition, the stop will feature numerous satellites and side events.

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2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Chris Moneymaker will return as tour ambassador for Season 3 and is confirmed to be at the HPO Lawrenceburg. In Season 2, Moneymaker won the Hollywood Poker Open St. Louis Regional Championship, and only time will tell if he can add a second title to his résumé. If it does, PokerNews will be there to capture it as we'll be live reporting Season 3 of the HPO.

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• Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open kicked off today in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The capstone $1,115 HPO Regional Main Event will be on Saturday, Nov.

'PokerNews is excited to be continuing its partnership with the Hollywood Poker Open into the upcoming season, and we will once again be providing live coverage from each of the Regional and Championship Main Events,' said PokerNews Editor-in-Chief Donnie Peters. 'We are looking forward to helping the tour grow and highly recommend all poker players add some HPO stops to their tournament schedule, starting with the Lawrenceburg event this month.'

Each stop in Season 3 includes a Main Event as well as qualifiers for the season-ending championship at the M Resort Casino Spa in Las Vegas. Last season, the HPO sent more than 200 promotional winners to the Championship Event. HPO Tournament Director Bill Bruce says the plan is the same in Season 3.

'We plan to not only give away hundreds of seats to the Championship again, but we will also implement similar seat winner promotions to the Regional tournament series as well,' said Bruce, who has served as the HPO director since the tour's inception. 'These HPO tournament fields are such a great mix of traveling poker professionals and local promotion winners which makes the tournaments really attractive to all levels of poker players.'

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Here's a look at the complete HPO Lawrenceburg schedule:

For more on Season 3 of the Hollywood Poker Open, visit HollywoodPokerOpen.com.

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Over the past three seasons, Penn National Gaming's Hollywood Poker Open (HPO) has experienced tremendous growth, which is due in no small part to bringing 2003 World Series of Poker champ Chris Moneymaker on as a tour ambassador. Moneymaker will return in that capacity for Season 4, which will kick off its first regional tournament November 12 at Hollywood Casino Lawrenceburg.

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'I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to host the Hollywood Poker Open tournament series,' said Moneymaker. 'Each year the HPO continues to grow and further cements its reputation as one of the leading poker tournaments in the country.'

After the initial stop, the tour will hold four other regional stops across the country through May before heading to the M Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Tournament Championship in June 2016.

'Interest in the HPO continues to grow as it becomes more and more competitive and exciting,' said HPO Tournament Director Bill Bruce. 'As we have in the first three seasons of the HPO, our regional tournament series will determine hundreds of winners that will compete in the Tournament Championship in Las Vegas. The HPO tournament series attracts all levels of poker players with fields featuring a diverse mix of traveling poker professionals and local promotion winners. The HPO offers our regional gaming patrons a tremendous opportunity to compete for large prize pools and the chance to be crowned the ultimate champion.'

This past June, Keven Stammen outplayed nearly 700 other players to capture the Season 3 Championship title and a $347,052 first-place prize. Interestingly, the HPO finale has tripled the guaranteed prize each year since the inaugural 2012 season. What's more, Season 4 is expected to be the biggest and the best with an estimated prize pool of over $2 million.

Other winners from Season 3 included Daniel Swartz (HPO Columbus - $70,560), Loukas Michael (HPO Charles Town - $35,803), Linda Lieder (HPO St. Louis - $48,440), Steven Gurney-Goldman (HPO Grantville - $29,342), Donald McArthur (HPO Tunica - $17,100), and Charles Maxcy (HPO Toledo - $37,465).
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