The biggest poker tournament in Canada will be taking place in March in Calgary, Canada. The event will run for a total of five days and it features a total of $1.3 million in prize money, but the main attraction will be the main event in where the winner will take a juicy pot of over $200,000. The poker tournament will also bring some of the best poker players in the world including the Full Tilt Poker pro Andy Bloch, Italian poker pro Antonio Esfandiari, Greg Mueller and Huckleberry Seed among others.

"This event will give players both locally and internationally a chance to be television's next poker superstar," said Kelly Kellner, president and CEO of headsUp Entertainment, which is playing host to the event. "We're going to be televising the event not only in Canada but around the world in Australia, England, Italy and France. What we're really hoping to do is really build the market of poker in Canada because it is such an exciting country - there are some great players".

Believe or not the Canadian Open Poker Championship is offers tax-free prize pool, which is unusual for a poker tournament of this magnitude. Traditionally about ¼ of the attendants can be considered pros. But the first 128 players who have the necessary $5,000 entry fee can walk into the main event, which uses the traditional NCAA basketball format. The top 16 finishers will all get a piece of the prize money.

"The chances of playing Tiger Woods in a round of golf and beating him are pretty slim, but here if you can go up against Huck Seed or Antonio Esfandiari you can beat them and that's a great life experience," Keller said. The tournament will be taking place at the Deerfoot Inn and Casino, in where several private poker parties were organized in the past, so event of this caliber shouldn't be a problem.