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On Thursday, 888poker announced the final schedule for its 2011 Super Stack series in the United Kingdom. The six-stop tour will take place at London’s Fox Poker Club and Birmingham’s Circus Casino between July 30 and December 18.

The buy-in for each of the events is £165 with 20K starting stacks and 40 minute blinds. The prize pools for each Super Stack event usually exceeds £20,000.

Here’s a look at the upcoming schedule:

July 30-31 — London
August 27-28 — Birmingham
October 1-2 — London
October 29-30 — Birmingham
December 3-4 — London
December 16-18 — Birmingham (GRAND FINAL)

Players can qualify at 888poker.com for as little as $1.10 and weekly 10 seat guarantee qualifiers are available for $10+$.50 at 7:30 p.m. BST on Monday (London qualifier) and Thursday (Birmingham qualifier). Players can also buy in directly at 888poker.com or at each live venue.

The first three legs of the 2011 Super Stack series were played at London’s Kingsway Hall Hotel, with all three winners collecting a minimum of £5,000. Tomasz Janowicz bested 141 players the first leg in January, earning £7,000. Then it was Josh O’Connor outlasting a field of 115 to win £5,700 in March. And last month, Arturs Dauquis finished first out of 133 players to collect £5,000.

The fourth leg of the Super Stack series will take place at the Royal Casino Spa & Hotel Resort in Riga, Latvia on June 25-26. Online satellites are no longer being offered, but interested players can buy in directly at the event.

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