It looks as if the long-proposed concept of getting the best of the
best in online gambling to compete against each other may be gathering
momentum.
Announcements this week suggest it could be about to happen in the
very near future and that several top sites like PartyPoker, UltimateBet,
PokerRoom, Absolute Poker and Golden Palace Poker have agreed to conduct
two online tournaments that will make up the ten event schedule.
Early reports reaching InfoPowa suggest that there will be two levels
of buy-ins, $100 + $9 and $250 + $20, but there is nothing available
at this stage to suggest that players might be able to get in via sponsored
satellite tournaments.
Any player eligible to play at the participating sites may play in as
many of the events as they wish. The winner of each tournament, in addition
to picking up the top prize from the tournament, will also earn a seat,
hotel, travel and meal expenses to a final "live" championship
series, that will apparently take place at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino
and Resort in Atlantic City, NJ on October 8. This will be $100,000
in prizemoney in a one table Sit
and Go, with the eventual champion taking down the top prize of
$30,000 and tenth place picking up a $5,000.
The top dog, or Player of the Tournament title is on the cards too,
with all players registered at the OSOP website earning points toward
a OSOP Leaderboard. Prizemoney will be available here too for those
who accrue enough points through the ten events, with the top six money
leaders from the entire event receiving cash prizes ranging from $500
to $3 000.
STOP PRESS
As we went to press this week the announcement was just out that Citadel
Commerce Corp. is sponsoring the Online Series of Poker Leader Board.
The Online Series of Poker (OSOP) allows worldwide online poker players
the unprecedented opportunity to win a share of $100,000 in prize money
at the Online Series Of Poker Championship Freeroll Event by qualifying
through online poker tournaments at participating online poker rooms.
This is the first time in the history of online gaming that a tournament
has been held across multiple online poker rooms.