ACR $100k Guarantee Smashed as Almost 50,000 Enter The Dream!

If anyone disses the health of the poker economy at the lower levels, you can now point them to ACR’s ‘The Dream’ - the microstakes tournament attracting a phenomenal 49,016 entries and breaking the $100k guarantee!

Many thought it was asking for trouble to run a $100k GTD, $2.50 buy-in event, but the numbers don’t lie – the PKO close to reaching the magical 50k entries, with a final prizepool of $110,286.

ACR pro Chris Moneymaker, who famously turned a satellite into life-changing WSOP victory in 2003, said, “My own experiences demonstrate the life-changing opportunities poker can provide, but rarely have those opportunities been available at such a low buy-in as they are with ‘The Dream.’ As the name implies, ‘The Dream’ epitomizes big poker at basement buy-ins.”

With 22 starting day 1s and the prospect of 1170 players hitting the paid spots, the winner of The Dream on Americas CardRoom was ‘CatchM3IfUKan,’ pocketing $8,275 for the win and an additional $1,447 in bounties, bring his total to almost $10k.

Given the $2.50 buy-in, that works out at almost 4000x - not quite Moneymaker 30,000x (Chris turned an $86 sattie into $2.5million) but plenty good enough to celebrate.

It’s not the only “dream” win this week for fans of ACR, with Mark “Weasel” Rubbathan turning his online package win into a monster live win worth $396,000.

Along with the huge cash, Rubbathan bagged another $240,000 for the ten bounties he collected along the way!