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.
More information on this imaginative new competition can be obtained at Online Series of Poker.com.