Hollywood Poker Announces $5 Million Poker Tournament
Hollywood Poker Announces $5 Million Poker Tournament
- by Anton Fisher
$5 Million Guarantee, a Trip to Barcelona, and a Chance to Make Online Poker History
Hollywood Poker presents the Poker Classic, a tournament with an outstanding and unprecedented guaranteed prize pool of $5,000,000. The first place finisher will take at least $1,000,000 away from the final table! Be a Part of Online Poker History! This event is going to make poker history. It starts online on Saturday the 2nd of September and concludes with a live tournament offering the largest-ever guaranteed prize for such an event. Once there are 45 players remaining in the online tournament it will be put on hold and those players will be sent to the Casino de Barcelona in Barcelona Spain to conclude the tournament live on the weekend of September 30th. Players will continue with the same chip stacks they had when the online tournament paused.
Outstanding Added Tournament Value The overlay for this event will be massive and unrivalled because travel and hotel expenses are not coming from the prize pool. For the entry fee of $5000+200 (or equivalent) the top 45 players will receive both their tournament buy-in AND a $5000 (approximate value) travel package containing airfare, luxury hotel and accommodation for the weekend in Spain!
Nobody Loses! The best part is that all players qualifying for the live phase are guaranteed to be in the money, with all winnings being paid out to the players’ online accounts.
Beat the $5000+200 Buy-in Through Satellite Qualifiers Apart from the direct buy-in of $5000+200, players can qualify for entry through a number of scheduled tournaments and Sit & Go qualifiers (see below for qualifying structure).
*Please note that there is no direct buy-in to the live event. The only way for a player to participate in the live tournament is to be one of the top 45 players in the online final which players can only enter through direct buy-in of $5000+200 or through a Qualifier.
Qualifying Structure All Qualifying Tournaments for this event can be found under Tournaments in the game software by clicking the Scheduled or Sit & Go (real) tabs and then clicking on the Qualifiers sub section. Tournaments will be listed as ONPC Qualifier.
Scheduled qualifiers: Stage 1: $6+1, runs 12 times per day, pays 1 ticket to Stage 2 for every 9 entrants. One ticket guaranteed.
Stage 2: $50+4, runs 2 times every day, pays 1 ticket to Stage 3 for every 7 entrants. One ticket guaranteed.
Stage 3: $300+20, runs once weekly, pays 1 ticket to the online final for every 18 entrants. One ticket guaranteed.
Sit & Go qualifiers: Turbo sub qualifier: $1+0.10, one ticket to Stage 1.
Stage 1: $9+1, one ticket to Stage 2 and 2nd place gets ticket to Stage 1 + $7.
Stage 2: $68+5, one ticket to Stage 3 and 2nd place gets ticket to Stage 2 + $7.
Stage 3: $580+20, one ticket to the online final and 2nd place gets ticket to Stage 3 Multiple Sit & Goes for 20 and 30 handed will follow.
Preliminary Schedule in Barcelona Thursday September 28th - Arrival in Barcelona
Friday September 29th - Leisure day for players to enjoy the city of Barcelona and rehearsal of tournament walk-through. Opening night reception with cocktails and buffet.
Saturday September 30th - Tournament begins and is played out until we have a 9 handed final table. There will then be a dinner break in the evening for 90 minutes.
Sunday October 1st - Final table with a dinner break in the evening.
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