$5 Million Online Poker Tournament
Published: Thursday, March 23, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
$5 MILLION ONLINE POKER TOURNAMENT
45 Ongame Poker Network finalists
will fly to Spain
Newly acquired by the Austrian public company
Bet and Win, the Ongame Network including poker sites such as
Pokerroom.com has wasted no time in launching The Ongame Network Poker
Classic, a tournament with a record-breaking guaranteed prize pool of $5
million and at least $1 million for the final winner.
Whilst the prize
pool is dwarfed by events such as the WSOP (this year's prize pool will
be $70 million) Ongame claims that it will be the largest-ever guaranteed prize
for an event that starts online. The Ongame Classic is an exclusive event
where the online poker players can only enter through qualifying rounds held on
Ongame Network operators' websites, such as Pokerroom.com.
The
new tournament will start as an online event and then pause when there are 45
players left. Those 45 will then receive airplane tickets to Barcelona, Spain,
for the live final to battle it out on the green felt face to face - continuing
with the same chip stacks they had when the online tournament paused.
The grand final will take place in the prestigious Casino de
Barcelona during the weekend of September 30th - October 1st,
2006.
Ongame Network's operators are working together to host this
innovative event for all their players. It will be a distinctive event that cuts
through the clutter of mid-level poker tournaments offered by other individual
poker sites.
Ongame says it is investing a significant and unprecedented
amount in the event, and the players will see the benefit, because travel and
hotel expenses will not be taken from the prize pool or players' pockets. For
the equivalent entry fee of $5000+200, the top 45 players will receive both
their tournament buy-in and a $5000 travel package.
Sit & Go and
scheduled tournament-based qualifiers start on Monday, March 27th. Players can
proceed through various levels which start at $1.
Patrick Selin,
President of Ongame, said: "We are truly excited to be launching this Poker
Classic tournament which we believe marks a milestone in the development of
online poker. The guaranteed size of the prize pool available makes it an
opportunity no true online poker fan can miss - and I'm sure beginners will be
tempted to try their luck too."
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