Full Tilt Poker Announces Onyx Cup Series with $30 Million Prize Pool
Full Tilt Poker recently announced their brand new Onyx Cup, which is a series of high roller poker tourneys that has made the poker community breathless with excitement.
The Onyx Cup will feature a series of 6 high-stake and high buy-in live poker tournaments, which are scheduled to be played around Europe, Asia, and America; it promises to be one of the most lucrative live poker event in the world. The buy-ins for these tournaments range from $100k to $250k and the total prize pool is a staggering $30 million. The Onyx Cup Series champion will receive a trophy, a share of $30 million, and a sparkling new luxury sports car. The dramatic event will be televised in 10 languages through 40 television networks worldwide and will utilize a leader board, which makes it all the more challenging.
Full Tilt Poker will award points on the basis of player performance during each live tournament; and players must earn the largest number of points during the first 5 live tournaments to qualify for the sixth, the Grand Finale with a buy-in of $250k, which is scheduled to be held in Dec 2011. The Grand Finale topper will be announced as the Onyx Cup Series champion and will win a huge slice of the $30 million prize pool, a trophy with his/her name engraved on it, a brand new sports car, and a permanent place in poker history.
The first live poker event of the Onyx Cup Series will be held at Las Vegas from May 1st and go on until the 12th; it will feature a buy-in of $100k. You can expect to see top professional poker players such as Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erik Seidel, John Juanda and Erick Lindgren participating in it. The second tournament will be held at Las Vegas on July 7th and 8th for a buy-in of $100k. The third, fourth, and fifth events will be held in Asia, and the Grand Finale will be held in Las Vegas in December for a buy-in of $250k.
The Onyx Cup Series is the second poker event of its kind that promises to bring together the best talents in the poker world. Full Tilt Poker is packed with resources to help you become a part of this lucrative event and has plans to award free Onyx seats to the top poker players who get through its online qualifiers. This will give the lucky winners the opportunity to play against top poker pros such as Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Gus Hansen and others.
What’s more, we have heard that Tom “Durrrr” Dwan and Patrik Antonius of Team Full Tilt Poker will be actually giving one-to-one poker lessons to ambitious poker players who want to participate in this unique event. Dwan has posted a tweet on Twitter stating that his first paid poker lesson will be on April 19th and Patrik Antonius’ coaching will begin on April 18th.
Both Dwan and Antonius will use topnotch audio-video technology through a well-equipped coaching site called expertinsight.com developed by Brandon Adams, the Full Tilt Poker pro, Harvard professor and writer. Interested players can use Adam’s Twitter account to bid for lessons, the starting bid being $3k and rising by increments of $100.
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