The Best Of The Best Poker Online
Published: Friday, June 10, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
THE BEST OF THE BEST POKER ONLINE
Projected new championship should pack 'em in
It looks as if the long-proposed concept of getting the best of the best in
online gambling to compete against each other may be gathering momentum.
Announcements this week suggest it could be about to happen in the very near
future and that several top sites like PartyPoker,
UltimateBet, PokerRoom,
Absolute Poker and Golden Palace Poker have agreed to conduct two online tournaments
that will make up the ten event schedule.
Early reports reaching InfoPowa suggest that there will be two levels of buy-ins,
$100 + $9 and $250 + $20, but there is nothing available at this stage to suggest
that players might be able to get in via sponsored satellite tournaments.
Any player eligible to play at the participating sites may play in as many of
the events as they wish. The winner of each tournament, in addition to picking
up the top prize from the tournament, will also earn a seat, hotel, travel and
meal expenses to a final "live" championship series, that will apparently
take place at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ on
October 8. This will be $100,000 in prizemoney in a one table Sit and Go, with
the eventual champion taking down the top prize of $30,000 and tenth place picking
up a $5,000.
The top dog, or Player of the Tournament title is on the cards too, with all
players registered at the OSOP website earning points toward a OSOP Leaderboard.
Prizemoney will be available here too for those who accrue enough points through
the ten events, with the top six money leaders from the entire event receiving
cash prizes ranging from $500 to $3 000.
More information on this imaginative new competition can be obtained at Online
Series of Poker.com.
STOP PRESS
As we went to press this week the announcement was just out that Citadel Commerce
Corp. is sponsoring the Online Series of Poker Leader Board.
The Online Series of Poker (OSOP) allows worldwide online poker players the
unprecedented opportunity to win a share of $100,000 in prize money at the Online
Series Of Poker Championship Freeroll Event by qualifying through online poker
tournaments at participating online poker rooms. This is the first time in the
history of online gaming that a tournament has been held across multiple online
poker rooms.
