Tournament Across Online Poker Rooms Starts
Published: Friday, July 08, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
TOURNAMENT ACROSS ONLINE POKER ROOMS STARTS
$100 000 in prize money
The Online Series of Poker (see earlier Online-Casinos.com and InfoPowa reports) tournament swung into
action this week - the first time in online gaming that a tournament has been
held across multiple independent online poker rooms.
Poker players worldwide now have the opportunity to win a share of $100,000
in free prize money by qualifying through online tournaments at participating
internet poker rooms.
To date, Greg Langford of Canada and Todd Ivanhoe of the USA have won their
tournaments at Party Poker and William Hill and James Campbell of the USA has
won his place through Ultimate Bet. They will soon be joined by six other tournament
winners at the final Championship Event in October.
Three other poker rooms in the event, Absolute Poker, PokerRoom and Golden Palace
Poker, will each host two tournaments in the coming weeks. One will require
a $100 buy-in plus a $9 fee, while the other will have a $250 buy-in and $20
fee.
Participating poker rooms are running daily satellites offering entry into an
OSOP Main Event and players can earn a seat in an OSOP tournament for as little
as $10 via these satellites.
The winner of each tournament will be awarded, in addition to the prize money
from the tournament itself, a seat at the Online Series of Poker $100,000 Championship,
to be held on October 8, 2005, at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino and Resort in Atlantic
City, NJ.
The prize package will also include roundtrip airfare from anywhere in the world,
airport transfers, accommodations at the Trump Taj Mahal hotel, and meal vouchers.
The winner of the Championship will take home $30,000, but even the tenth place
winner will receive $5,000.
All players who register at the OSOP website will be eligible for the OSOP Leader
Board, sponsored by online payment solutions provider Citadel Commerce. The
top six money leaders across all ten events will receive cash prizes, ranging
from $3,000 to $500.
