1-X-2 Footie Specials at Betfair Poker
The Betfair Poker team has come up with a brilliant way to combine the excitement of online poker room action with the eternal appeal of football – the 1-X-2 Footie Special. This is a new type of poker tournament where your opinion about a football match could help you to win more money than you would otherwise, and the way the 1-X-2 Special works is actually fairly simple.
First, you need to take a look at the featured match for the next 1-X-2 Footie Special tournament. The next one at the time of writing is Inter Milan v Chelsea (Wednesday 24 February) but all you have to do to find future Footie Special matches is visit the 1-X-2 Footie Special page at the Betfair Poker website.
Next, decide how you think the featured match will end. In other words, will it be a win for the home team (1), a draw (X) or a win for the away team (2)? How you reach this decision is entirely up to you, so you could either analyse the form of each time and come to a conclusion based on your knowledge of the game, use the Betfair betting markets as a guide or simply go with your gut instinct.
There will be a separate tournament for each prediction about the featured football game, so when you have come up with your match prediction, you need to join the 1-X-2 Footie Special tournament that reflects your opinion. For example, if you think that Inter Milan will beat Chelsea this evening, you should join the 1-X-2 Inter Milan tournament. If you think the match will be a draw, you should join the 1-X-2 The Draw tournament. And if you think that Chelsea will win, you should join the 1-X-2 Chelsea tournament.
Having done all of that, settle down and play poker. The tournament that accurately reflects the result of the featured match will have $1,000 added, so if you do well in the tournament and you have also made a correct prediction about the football match, your bankroll will love you for it.
You should note that, for the purposes of 1-X-2 Footie Special tournaments, the football result is deemed to be the result after 90 minutes of play, so no extra time or penalties will count. If a featured match fails to reach 90 minutes (because it has to be called off, for example) then the 1-X-2 Footie Special tournaments will proceed as regular freezeout tournaments with no money added.
We can’t think of many better ways of spending an evening than by combining poker with football, so the 1-X-2 Footie Special is a great innovation as far as we are concerned. If you agree then pay a visit to Betfair Poker for details of the next 1-X-2 Footie Special and get involved!
14/06/2010 11:58:49
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