High Heels tournament March 29
The High Heels Poker Tour is returning to South Florida and its March 29 tournament offers a heck of a prize: a seat at the main event of the World Series of Poker, plus airfare to Las Vegas and hotel room.
To those of you who don't follow poker closely, the World Series entry alone is worth $10,000. It's the big tournament that ESPN covers and airs the rest of the year. (And, in case you've already won your seat, the tournament gives you the choice of taking the 10 grand straight up instead of the seat and transportation and lodging.)
Entry for the 1 p.m. March 29 tournament, set for Seminole Hollywood Casino (the old place south of the Hard Rock), is $450. Or you can enter the $125 qualifying tournaments heading into the March 29 event, set for 1 p.m. on Saturday (March 15) and on March 22 at the Seminole Hollywood. Win one of those, and save paying the $450.
I wrote about the High Heels Poker tour (catch phrase: "Poker is in our Sole") back on Oct. 20, when Lauren Failla, a Hollywood woman and the High Heels founder, held a 100-woman tournament at The Isle Casino and Racing in Pompano Beach. Since then, she's held WSOP related events in Iowa and in Tunica, Miss.
"I just want to see more women playing poker," she said recently. Casinos support the concept, because it helps them grow the poker industry: It gives women who might be intimidated to play in a regular tournament a start.
For info, go to www.highheelspokertour.com.
