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December 5th 2006
Victor Chandler to offer biggest prize in history of online poker
When you think about the really huge online poker rooms which ones spring to mind? PartyPoker? PokerStars? Full Tilt? Well how about Victor Chandler? No? Well perhaps you ought to think again, because VC Poker are about to launch a series of poker tournaments with a potential $10 million up for grabs; the biggest prize in online poker history.
Victor Chandler’s “Grand Slam” tournament series was inspired by the Grand Slam tennis (and golf) competitions, four annual tournaments which stand head and shoulders above the rest of the year’s events. Few people in history have ever even captured one Grand Slam event, but to complete a Grand Slam sweep (winning all four Grand Slam’s in a calendar year) is rightly considered to be one of the greatest feats in sport.
VC Poker has decided its time poker had its own Grand Slam champion, and during a series of four tournaments taking place over four consecutive weeks the UK poker site will hope to crown poker’s first Grand Slam champion.
The first tournament in the series took place last Sunday: a $50,000 guaranteed tournament with entries restricted to 999. This coming Sunday (10/12/2006) sees a $60,000 guaranteed tournament, followed by a $75,000 on Dec 17th, and a $100,000 on Dec 24th. No tournament will have more than 999 players, giving any potential Grand Slam champion the best possible chance to win.
If anyone does manage the practically impossible and triumphs in all four tournaments they will be rewarded with a $10,000,000 bonus prize, the biggest single prize in the history of online poker, and second only to the 2006 WSOP main-event first prize since poker began. But there are other lucrative prizes on offer as well. For example if you win three of the four tournaments you’ll collect $5,000,000, which would also be the biggest online prize to date.
And if you can’t manage that you can still win up to $250,000 just by finishing on the final table of two or more of these tournaments, which is a far more realistic prospect. That would also put you in with a chance of becoming a VC Poker sponsored player.
Submitted: 05/12/2006 12:06:26
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