Online poker market leader Party Poker has opened its popular
gambling tournament Million 2005 to poker aficionados. Pokerheads
will have a chance to try their luck and skills at this event for
the fourth time.
Party's experts predict that this year will bring significantly more
participants since the tournament will accrue a record prize pool
estimated to be worth over $7.5 million. The final winner will take
home $1,875,000. The previous PartyPoker.com Million III event boasted
a prize pool of $3,822,000 and was adjudged in many circles as the
biggest tournament the World Poker Tour has ever seen.
The event will be televised on the World Poker Tour. Players of at
least twenty-one years of age are allowed to enter the tournament
by qualifying online through winning a Semi-final. The players, who
pay a $10,200 entry fee for the Tournament, will cruise on a liner
that sails from San Diego, California on March 19th and docks back
at the San Diego port on 26th March, 2005.
The previous PartyPoker.com Million events created poker players who
are now considered to be the real gurus of poker science. The 2004
winner of the Million III was Erick Lindgren who won $1,000,000. In
2003, Howard Lederer won the PartyPoker.com Million II and took home
$263,850. In 2002, at the PartyPoker.com Million I, Kathy Liebert
won the 1st prize of $1,000,000 and an additional $300,000 was shared
by the other finalists, including 3 amateur players who qualified
online.