Poker news source: CardPlayer Magazine - http://www.cardplayer.com
Duplicate Poker Announces World Championship
BY: BOB PAJICH | bob.pajich@cardplayer.com
PUBLISHED: Friday Feb 22, 2008 02:46 PM
Fall Championship Will Award $120,000 in Prizes
DuplicatePoker.com is getting ready for its first Duplicate Poker World Championship, which will be held this Fall.
In duplicate poker, every table is dealt the same set of cards as holecards and boardcards, and the object is to maximize profits and minimize losses to do better than your same-seat opponents at the other tables. So, strictly speaking, players aren't so much playing the players at their own table as they are playing their same-seat opponents in a game of "who can win more with the same cards." This variation of poker, the site claims, removes much of the “luck factor” involved in the game.
Qualifying rounds will run from now until Sept. 14, when the first round of regional online tournaments will take place. A total of 180 entrants will qualify and will be divided into regional rounds.
The players will then play down to regional teams of seven players, and these players will win travel packages to a live venue where the semifinal and championship rounds will be played (the site is unknown at this time). The championship round will be scored both individually and as a team, where they’ll compete for $120,000 in prizes.
To become one of the 180 players to qualify, players must crack the top six of site’s weekly tournament leader board.
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