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WagerLogic's Licensees Announce Major Poker Tournament - CARIBBEAN POKER CLASSIC with an estimated $1 million prize pool.
WagerLogic Limited, a global leading provider of online gaming software announced today that its licensees will be offering the Caribbean Poker Classic™, a land-based poker tournament in St. Maarten from December 5-11, 2004. This cross-licensee event combines the best of Internet and land-based poker excitement, as players worldwide compete for a seat at the final tournament with an estimated $1,000,000 in prize money. The championship event is a $5,100 buy-in, No Limit Hold'em extravaganza, held on Wednesday, December 8th."With the Caribbean Poker Classic™, WagerLogic licensees offer their players a world-class, flagship event filled with fun, sun and big money action," according to A.J. Slivinski, WagerLogic's Managing Director. "This land-based event will be a major draw to increase player traffic to our licensees' central poker room - currently ranked number 4 in the world - and help to strengthen their market position in online poker."
The Caribbean Poker Classic™ is WagerLogic licensees' first foray into land-based tournament poker. The event will be held in St. Maarten in the Caribbean at the exclusive Sonesta Maho Beach Resort & Casino from December 5th - 11th. Players can qualify in daily online tournaments through satellites, multi-tiered tournaments and single table tournaments for the Championship Package, which includes a $5,100 event buy-in, roundtrip airfare, six nights at the Resort, tickets to the welcome and awards ceremonies, and a special welcome gift. A guaranteed seat valued of $8,500 can be won each day up to a maximum of 400 players for entry in the final round in St. Maarten.
Qualify online at these WagerLogic licensees: Caribbean Sun Poker Room.
WagerLogic software is used by some of the world's top online gaming brands, and now powers the fourth leading poker room on the Internet according to PokerPulse.com, an independent research site. The success of WagerLogic licensees' central poker room is reflected in: a total average cash pot of $6 million won each day; 400,000 hands of poker dealt every day for up to 3,300 players online simultaneously; and total player registrations currently exceed 150,000 from over 120 countries.
Source: WagerLogic
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