Pennsylvania online poker players have been grinding away on PokerStars PA for a few months now, but in February some of the best poker players from the Tri-State area will be heading to Parx Casino.

The Big Stax XXXII is an 11-event series running February 5 – 26 at Parx Casino in Bensalem, PA, just 30 minutes outside of Philadelphia. Buy-ins range from $80 up to $1,100. While there are 11 events on the schedule there are three that stand out from the rest, the Big Stax 300, the Big Stax 500, and the Big Stax 1100.

Big Stax 300

This $340 buy-in event has four starting flights beginning on Wednesday, February 5. Players start with a 30,000 starting stack and can re-enter as often as required. While there is no information available on the guarantee for this event, the Big Stax XXXI Big Stax 300 in September had 1,413 entrants and a $402,706 prize pool with Victor Ramdin taking the title and $48,777 after the final four players agreed to a deal.

Big Stax 500

This event has a $550 buy-in and just three starting flights beginning on Friday, February 14. With a bigger buy-in than the Big Stax 300, players are given a bigger starting stack. Players get 40,000 chips to start and are once again able to fire as many re-entry bullets as necessary. In September, 927 entered to push the prize pool to $440,325 with Tam Nguyen winning $76,500 after chopping heads-up with Jeffrey Grosso.

Big Stax 1100

This $1,100 buy-in tournament is the marquee event on the schedule. There are two starting flights, beginning on Friday, February 21. Players start with a 50,000 starting stack and can, again, re-enter as often as they need to. The October event drew 370 players to create a $394,790 prize pool. Grigoriy Shvarts won the event outright for $82,549.

For all three of these events, Day 1 has 45-minute levels, 60-minute levels on Day 2 and 90-minute levels for the final tables.

The Parx Poker Room

As far as the live poker experience in Pennsylvania goes, the leader in the clubhouse is Parx. With 48 tables and a robust year-round tournament schedule, Parx has something for every poker player and has become the top destination for a number of the best players in the Keystone State.

Big Stax History

For those who aren’t great with roman numerals, this series marks the 32nd incarnation of the Big Stax series. The first ran in February 2013 and featured eight events including a $1,600 buy-in Main Event with a $500,000 guarantee. That event, which featured unlimited re-entry, drew 517 runners for a total prize pool of $752,235.

Over the years, Parx has partnered with the WPTDeepstacks brand to have three of the Big Stax Main Events as WPTDeepstacks events. The first, in March of 2016, had a $1,600 buy-in and drew 696 runners to build a seven-figure prize pool. Brent Roberts took it down for $205,944. In 2017, James Poper topped a final table that included Phillip Hui, Justin Liberto, and eventual runner-up DJ MacKinnon to win $201,991. Following a one-year hiatus, the event returned in 2019 and 374 entries created a $532,794 prize pool and Dominick Sannino earned $116,153 as the champ.

Big Stax XXXII Schedule