Online poker rooms host weekly tournaments each week for their players to enjoy. These tournaments usually have low numbers when it comes to competitors and they offer smaller prize pools and buy-ins. The tournaments are great ways for players to earn a little extra cash and play time during the week. But sometimes the weekly tournaments have good turnouts and the prize pools are upped considerably. This is exactly what happened this past week at Party Poker.
Party Poker hosts a weekly tournament called the $300,000 guaranteed tournament. This tournament has a buy-in of $200 plus 15 but players can earn their entry by participating in satellites which start out with very low buy-ins. either way, it is easy to participate in.
This past week the tournament had 1,497 players competing which increased the $300,000 guaranteed prize pool up a whopping $1,000,000. That’s right One Million Dollars! Imagine the players surprise when they saw that huge number. This means the tournament had an increase of $600,000 which is huge! Normally the most a tournament will see is about $100,000 to $300,000 in prize pool increases and that is usually with the weekend tournaments. During the tournament, 200 spots would earn cash while first place would earn just over $33,000.
When the tournament got down to five way play, the players would begin discussing a deal. The five players would make a decision based on chip counts and each player would earn a five figure pay day with a little set aside for first place. In the end it would be online player elsensei who would earn the win and the extra cash.
Final Results:
elsensei – $33,679
Evgen777 – $29,115
bvvbdx – $28,671
aaffamato99 – $27,163
slammeDK – $25,222 *5-way deal
PokaLoco – $10,350
indateeth – $7,950
twoinchesshy – $5,250
bigwolf5O – $4,050
CSABlPAPI – $2,850