World Poker Tour Returnvideobuddy applications to Jacksonville for bestbet Scramble Nov. 15

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• Getting Set for bestbet
• WPT bestbet Scramble Championship Event Schedule

Sunny Florida is the sight of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble Championship from Nov. 15-19. More specifically, one of the top spots for tournament poker in the Southeast — bestbet Jacksonville.

At the time of publishing, it hadn't even been 24 hours since Michael Wang finished off his first WPT title with a CAD $384,738 victory in Montreal at Playground. And now it's time for the World Poker Tour to shift its focus back south to the United States for its near-annual trip to Jacksonville where Frederic Normand, a Canadian, will look to defend his title.

Getting Set for bestbet

Normand defeated 365 players to join the WPT Champions Club and win $351,650 one year ago. He'd go on to win a $1,600 buy-in WPT event at Wynn Las Vegas a month later for a career-best $417,828 score.

Defending a title in any poker tournament is never easy, but Normand can begin his quest to do so on Nov. 15 at noon ET with the first of two Day 1 starting flights — the second taking place at the same time a day later. All players who bag chips on either of the opening sessions will come back on Nov. 17 for Day 2 at noon, followed by Day 3 (Nov. 18), which is scheduled to play down to the final table of six.

The final table on Nov. 19 begins at 2 p.m. Players start with 50,000 chips and will play 60-minute levels on Day 1, and then 90-minute levels on Days 2 and 3 before returning to the 60-minute levels at the final table. Once heads-up play starts, the clock will drop to 30-minute levels.

PokerNewswill be on-site at bestbet Jacksonville throughout the tournament providing daily feature stories and recaps.

WPT bestbet Scramble Championship Event Schedule

Date	Session	Time (ET)
Nov. 15	Day 1a	Noon
Nov. 16	Day 1b	Noon
Nov. 17	Day 2	Noon
Nov. 18	Day 3	Noon
Nov. 19	Final Table	2:00 p.m.

[*]Images courtesy of the World Poker Tour/Drew Amato.