Poker players in Ontario have been enjoying the Ontario Poker Championship on partypoker Ontario this week.

The series kicked off on April 2 and will run until April 18.

Ontario poker players have had a good couple of weeks for poker. Not only is partypoker Ontario running the Ontario Poker Championship this week, but other sites have been running similar series. Ontarians have just had both the first ever ONSCOOP and 888poker Ontario’s The Festival to play.

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With all that competition going on, players on partypoker Ontario have been able to take advantage of some solid overlay.

Players in Ontario Poker Championship #07: $530 The High-Roller 6-max got a $15,000 guarantee on a pot of just $13,500. The Sunday C-Note PKO came in with a $17,600 collection and a $20,000 prize pool. The extra cash went exclusively into the non-bounty payouts, boosting them by 37.5%.

With nearly half the tournament lineup still to go, there are likely to be plenty more overlay opportunities to come.

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The big winners at the partypoker Ontario Poker Championships

So far we have seen some big wins and exciting plays at the partypoker Ontario Poker Championships

In particular, the half-dozen completed higher roller events saw some thrilling final tables. With the smaller fields, these high-roller events also allowed repeat final table appearances and the accompanying narratives.

For example, two of these events were won outright by “Snoozing.” They won the $530 7-max NLH event and one of several $530 6-max high-rollers, collecting $11.2k for their two victories.

However, the biggest and most exciting event so far was Ontario Poker Championship #53: $530 The High-Roller 6-max. The event fell a little short of its $25,000 guarantee (another bit of overlay for the ICM calculators to account for).

“Alex Schaefer” took the first place prize of C$2,079.31 after beating “bambinno” heads up. They also cashed for an extra C$3,232.66 in bounties.

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What to look forward to at the Ontario Poker Championships

There are still around 70 tournaments to come, including the Ontario Poker Championships Main Event.

This Main Event comes in two versions. A low-stakes $33 buy-in event and a high-stakes $265 buy-in event. Both events are progressive knock-out events with half the prize pool placed as bounties and half going into the finishers’ payouts.

The Main Events have multiple Day 1s spread throughout the festival with a final Day 2 playing out on April 19.

If you want a shot at the title, there’s still plenty of time to download partypoker Ontario and join the action.

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