First Place Will Pay a Minimum of $25,000 to the Winner
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Absolute Poker
(http://www.AbsolutePoker.com) one of the world's largest online poker sites,has announced that this Saturday's $150 entry tournaments will now have a guaranteed prize pool of at lease $100,000. This is the largest tournament that the site has hosted to date, and will award the first place finisher a minimum prize of 25,000. The tournament format is No Limit Texas Holdem, the same game that is played in the annual World Series of Poker.
"We are very excited to be offering this large a prize pool to our members," said Gian Perroni, poker room manager for Absolute Poker. "We havebeen adding $10,000 every week to this tournaments' prize pool, a practice that we will resume in the New Year, and we will soon see this tournamentoffering more than a quarter of a million dollars. This adds nicely to ourcurrent other guaranteed tournaments that total close to a million dollars every month."
The tournament begins at 4:30 p.m. EST, Saturday, December 17, and Absolute Poker is running satellite tournaments for entry into this event several times every day. Players can win entry into the main, $100,000 event for as little as $3 by placing among the top finishers in these satellites.
The main event will be limited to the first 2,000 entrants. The same
tournament for a minimum $100,000 will be held on each subsequent Saturday at the same time.
About AbsolutePoker.com
AbsolutePoker.com is the world's fourth largest online poker destination, offering worldwide access to multi-player online games 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Driven by proprietary software, AbsolutePoker.com offers the most comprehensive, interactive online poker room, providing such features as hand history and stat retrieval, player note taking and chat, locate a player, six-table play, and representative image selection. Multi-player games offered
include: Texas Holdem, Omaha High, Omaha Hi/Lo, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo, One on One, and both Sit and Go and Multi-Table Tournaments.
Absolute Poker supports responsible gaming by offering players self-exclusion from play, daily and weekly limits, and a listing of counseling and referral services. For more information on the company's responsible gaming policy, please visit http://www.absolutepoker.com/Responsible_Gaming.asp. Established in 2003, AbsolutePoker.com is licensed and regulated in Canada.
SOURCE AbsolutePoker.com
Web Site: http://www.absolutepoker.com
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