Online Poker Tournament This Saturday Will Pay Out $500,000!
Pokerroom.com will hold one of their much-anticipated "Big Deal" tournaments beginning on Saturday, February 11, where the prize pool is a guaranteed minimum of $500K! There is a lot to like about this tournament if you fancy yourself to be a solid tournament player (and we've yet to meet a poker player who doesn't think highly of their own abilities).
The entry fee is only $1000, and at the time of writing there were 192 registrations for the event. Poker Room will need at least 500 players to join up or there will be an overlay, but you cannot really lose in terms of value with these tournaments because if there are more sign-ups the prize money increases accordingly.
Each player receives 10,000 chips and the blinds will initially be 25/25. That's the best reason of all to play - a starting stack to ante ratio that affords the opportunity for good players to survive those bad beats that would surely prove fatal if the stacks were smaller. Bad play and lucky escapes are part and parcel of the online game, but the way pokeroom have structured this tournament leads one to believe that good players will have a significant advantage.
