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Here's a quick look at some of the tournaments coming up on
Paradise Poker and the Prima Poker network this month.
Paradise Poker
The Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament in San Jose, CA, is one of the more
unique stops on the World Poker Tour, thanks to the bounties placed on the big
names of poker that play in the tourney. Knocking out a star is worth real
money, giving the event that extra little twist that makes it fun for
everyone. If you've ever wanted to play in this tournament, you'll want to
check out the satellites for it currently running at Paradise Poker. Every
Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday at 10 PM ET a $200 buy-in WPT Bay101 tourney
runs at Paradise, with one $11,000 prize package being awarded for every 55
entries. There are also daily $4 rebuy tournaments available that feed into
the $200 tourneys. The Bay 101 Shooting Stars tournament will be held from
February 27th to March 3rd, 2006.
For the fourth time, Paradise Poker is holding its own tournament series, the
Paradise Masters IV - and satellites will be up and running this month. The
Masters series has already awarded over $4 million in prizes to date, and the
fourth iteration will hold $3 million in guaranteed prize pools. Among the
tournaments available over nine days in January are Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit
Hold'em, No-Limit Hold'em, short-handed No-Limit Hold'em, and Pot-Limit Omaha.
The buy-ins for these events range from $200 to $1,000, and the guaranteed
prize pools range between $100,000 and $1 million. Blind levels for every
event are 30 minutes, and the starting chip stack is $2,500. Satellites for
these big-money events begin on December 10th - for more information on the
Paradise Masters IV, check
here.
Prima Poker Network
A $100,000 Guaranteed tournament will be held every Sunday at 3:30 PM ET
throughout the month of December on the Prima Poker network. With a buy-in of
$50+5, this is one of the best deals you'll find on the net for such a large
guaranteed prize pool. Even better than the chance to win big money is the
opportunity to get in cheaply through qualifier tournaments. Monday through
Friday you can enter a $10+1 satellite at either 4:30 AM or 3:45 PM ET where
one seat will be awarded for every 5 entries, and one qualifier with the same
buy-in will run every Saturday evening at 10 PM ET.
If you'd rather play in a live tournament than stay at home in front of your
computer, you've got two different tourneys to qualify for at Prima in
December. The European Poker Tour's Scandinavian Open is due to be held at
Casino Copenhagen in Denmark January 19th through the 22nd, 2006, and
satellites for this tournament are now running on the Prima network.
Sit-and-go qualifiers to the Multi Table Final are currently running around
the clock, with buy-ins of $94+9, $47+4.50, and $23.50+2.25. Every weekday at
2:45 PM ET a $23.50+2.25 multi-table qualifier runs, awarding one seat into
the Multi Table Final for every 20 registered players. On Saturday, December
10th, at 3:45 PM ET a $47+4.50 multi-table qualifier will award one seat for
every 10 players. The Multi Table Final will run at 3:30 PM ET on Saturday,
December 17th, sporting a $470+45 entry fee and awarding one seat in the EPT
event for every 20 players.
There's a little more time left before the WPT's World Poker Challenge goes
off in Reno - the tournament will be held from March 27th through the 30th
next year - so you've got plenty of time to win your entry through satellites
on the Prima network. Sit-and-go satellites to the Multi Table Final run
around the clock for $76+7, with 1 in 10 players winning entry. Multi-table
satellites are also currently running. At 3:45 PM ET every weekday a $7.60+.70
multi-table 1st-level qualifier awards one seat to the 2nd-level qualifier for
every 10 players, and at 8:45 PM ET every weeknight, a $15.20+1.40 1st-level
satellite awards one seat into the 2nd-level qualifier for every 5 players.
The $76+7 2nd-level qualifiers run every Saturday at 3:45 PM ET and award one
seat into the Multi Table Final for every 10 players. The Multi Table Final, a
$760+70 entry fee tournament, will be held on Saturday, February 26th, 2006.
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