Mansion ups the online poker ante...again

Last week the Mansion online gambling group boosted its Grand Tournament prize pool to $300 000 but this week the firm upped the ante again with a further $200 000 injection, lifting the reward even further to a guaranteed total of $500 000 and making the tournament one of the largest online shorthanded tourneys on the planet.

The increased prize pool is attracting a growing number of poker fans to the honey pot. Last month's Grand Tournament attracted a Mansion record of 627 runners, who battled it out for a tempting $627 000 prize pool, with a $156 000 first prize going to the eventual winner.

This monthly prize pool guaranteed tournament offers a player-friendly format with two starting days that run for a maximum five hours. Players looking for plenty of play time will relish the ultimate slow blind structure increasing every 30 minutes and the WSOP-style 10 000 chip starting stacks, delivering a quality brand of online poker.

Players can buy-in directly for $1 000+$40 at Mansion.com or participate in one of many easy on the pocket online qualifiers throughout the month.