Online qualifiers for the Blue Square & Grosvenor Casino GBP
4 Million UK Poker Tour begin on Saturday 16th December 2006, paving
the way for online poker players to win sponsorships to what is likely
to be the UK's biggest ever poker road show.
Online bookmaker Blue Square and Grosvenor Casinos, both part of the
Rank Group, announced the UK-only poker tour last month and said the
opening tournaments would take place at the Grosvenor Casino Bolton
between 14th January and 17th January next year.
The tour consists of 10 legs, starting in Bolton on January 12th 2007,
culminating in the Grand Final in December at the world famous London
Grosvenor Victoria Casino. Winners of each leg of the tour will also
win a seat at the UK Poker Tour Grand Final to be held at the end
of the year.
Each leg of the tour is a GBP 1 000 buy in, with players able to qualify
in satellites at Grosvenor Casinos or online at Blue Square Poker.
There is a GBP 3 000 buy-in to the Grand Final for non-leg winners.
All participating players will have the chance to play for a share
of an anticipated GBP 4 million total prize pool across the ten events.
Each leg of the tour will be filmed and broadcast on Channel 4 in
the second half of 2007.