English Poker Open 2010
The English Poker Open 2010 tournament is scheduled to take place at the Palm Beach Casino in Mayfair, London from Saturday 11th until Tuesday 14th September, and Virgin Poker is giving online poker room players the chance to win themselves a €6,000 package to the event. Participating in the English Poker Open is a valuable experience in its own right, but when you consider that there is a guaranteed prize pool of $1,000,000 up for grabs, it could be extremely valuable in financial terms too.
Poker players who want to enter the English Poker Open directly will need to come up with a buy-in of $5,350, but when you participate in satellites that are currently running at Virgin Poker you could win your way to the very same tournament for as little as €2!
Satellite games costing €2 and €4 are running at Virgin Poker every day, and these feed into a weekly final that takes place every Sunday. If you would prefer to buy into a weekly final then you can do so for €20, and success in that event will see you progress to a monthly final which has a buy-in of €215.
Continue playing a winning game and you could walk away from Virgin Poker with a €6,000 package to the English Poker Open itself. The package will include the buy-in fee of $5,350 and around €1,500 worth of accommodation and money for travel. You will need to make your own way to the event, but that shouldn’t prove difficult and when you arrive you will be able to look forward to playing alongside poker professionals and celebrities.
Obviously, those of you who play well enough to win yourself a seat in the English Poker Open 2010 will want to go ever further to try and finish in the money if not win the tournament outright. And as online players like Chris Moneymaker have demonstrated in the past, going “from zero to hero” in the world of poker is perfectly possible. But even if you don’t get that far, you are sure to gain a lot from participating in such a prestigious event. Pay attention and you might even learn a few things from the pros that you can bring back to your online poker game.
Head over to Virgin Poker today to check out the schedule of satellite opportunities, then register for whichever one you want and with a bit of luck you could soon be playing in the English Poker Open itself!
07/03/2011 11:21:31
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