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Casino of Collioure: € 30,000 to win at every last weekend of the month
Poker is evolving and land based gaming establishments also follow this rhythm and offer more and more interesting tournaments. Thus, as part of its new agenda that will delight players of the region, the casino of Collioure, in France hosted its first big poker tournament freeroll held last weekend. Henceforth, the rendezvous will be played during each last weekend of the month. As rule, the € 700 Main Event of last month of each weekend, offered to amateur poker players in the region, will lend the structure of the European Poker Tour with its 30,000 chips and levels limited to 60 minutes each.
Qualifying satellites for each stage will be then programmed as the Step 1 for buy-ins between € 10 and € 20 and rounds with 5,000 chips to be played in 25 minutes will be held every Monday and Tuesday. In Step 2, every Friday and Saturday, qualified players will participate in tournaments of € 80 buy-in for 10,000 chips and rounds of 25 minutes, that means 3 guaranteed entries for the main tournament. For unlucky players, the casino of Collioure offers them the opportunity to redeem themselves with a side event of € 200 consisting of 15,000 chips and 30 minutes, sit & go of 50, 100 and € 200 and a table of cash playable from € 50 with blinds of € 1 to € 2. For the first event of last weekend with a prizepool of more than € 30,000, plus the " Ambassador casting", the event was a real success with some 395 participants, players from various poker clubs in the region and its surroundings as Le Soler, Catalan Poker Club, Els Diables, Méditerranée Poker Club de Montpellier, Provence Poker, ou encore Marseille Holdem.
Source: poker777.com
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
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