Full Tilt Poker Announces “Million Pound Challenge”
Posted on June 23, 2008
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FullTilt Poker, the world’s second largest online poker room, has joined forces with Sky Sports to present a 80-seater poker tournament in the UK, deemed the “Million £ Challenge”. This lucrative event, exclusive to online poker players in the UK, will take place in September, followed by a televised broadcast of the tournament in February of 2009, on the Sky Sports network.
FullTilt Poker.com will be hosting Freeroll Qualifiers to the Million £ Challenge once every day, starting July 7th through September – 56 FreePoker Qualifiers in all. New members of FullTiltPoker.com who make their first deposit will receive one free ticket into a Million £ Challenge qualifier tournament. Both new and existing members of Full Tilt Poker will earn a free qualifier entry ticket once they earn 100 points on Full tilt Poker. Earning 500 points awards another 2 tickets, 1,500 points awards 3 more tickets and 3,000 grants another 4 tickets.
Full Tilt Poker will also be hosting regular qualifier tournaments three times a week, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. The winners of these Million £ Challenge qualifiers will win a seat in the Million £ Challenge. Each Saturday and Monday, the Million £ Challenge qualifiers will present a buy-in of only $5.50, upped to $11 for the Sunday tournament.
As the Million £ Challenge qualifier tournaments come to an end, the top 80 qualifiers will go on to play in the Million £ Challenge in London this September. Each will receive £1,000 spending cash to make their way to London for the event.
The winner of the Million £ Challenge will be awarded £50,000, followed by an opportunity to face three Full Tilt Pros in heads-up matches. Should the winner take down one Full Tilt Pro, they will be awarded £100,000. Take down two of the Full Tilt Pros for £200,000. Manage to wipe out all three Full Tilt Pros, and the prize is a cool £1,000,000.
James Hopkins, managing director of Emblaze Productions Ltd. (Sky Sports network), had this to say. “This will be the first show of its kind in the UK and must see TV for all poker enthusiasts. A spectacular event culminating in a £1,000,000 play-off, this will be TV drama at its very best.”
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