It’s time to pack your bags and leave your significant other at home. We’re bringing The Live Cage to the Taormina Hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica, every other month starting in March 2018. Experience two days of intense action on and off the felt in this adults-only event.
Think you have the stamina to handle the fun and intensity? We’re giving you plenty of chances to win your $8,000 prize package. That includes your $5,000 Live Cage buy-in, hotel accommodations, airfare and spending cash.
The Cage is a time-based cash game in tournament format. Don’t miss your chance to pound your opponents and really let loose in the Costa Rica capital.
We’re giving away three Live Cage prize packages guaranteed every Sunday beginning January 7th. Just enter our $55 Beast and Sit & Crush Live Cage satellite at 6pm ET. You can also earn your satellite entry for free via The Beast and Sit & Crush leaderboards.
The Live Cage runs five times in 2018. You can attend any one of the remaining Live Cage events this year.
| March 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th |
| May 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th |
| July 27th, 28th, 29th and 30th |
| September 28th, 29th, 30th and October 1st |
| November 30th, December 1st, 2nd and 3rd |
The first ever nosebleed stakes cash game in time-based tournament has drawn to its exciting conclusion and our inaugural Live Cage Event was a huge success.
We had a total of 21 entrants either qualify via satellite or cough up the $5,250 buy-in to compete in the inaugural event. Out of 21 players who started the day yesterday, only a total of 10 players managed to grind out a payday in the end, some with some pretty noticeable scores.
Congratulations to Stanley Lee who was our big winner, taking home a total of $19,875 for finishing atop of the field.
Here’s a look at the winners:
| Player | Chip Stack |
| Stanley Lee | $19,875 |
| Hugo Barboza | $13,810 |
| Diego Montezuma | $13,065 |
| Phil Nagy | $10,785 |
| Alex Brenes | $9,640 |
| Joe Williams | $9,430 |
| Brandon Merril | $8,830 |
| Jose Sanchez | $7,045 |
| Farhad Sinari | $6,415 |
| Nick Niegarth | $6,105 |
A special thank-you to our online qualifiers who came to visit us from far and wide after qualifying for their $8,000 package in the Beast and Sit & Crush $55 buy-in Sunday night qualifiers.
Their trip down to our backyard gave us the rare opportunity to showcase our offices during a player tour we gave on Friday, and take them for a night on the town in the Party Bus on Saturday night!
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