| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | Choctaw Poker Room Launches Gambling Tournaments
- Thursday, 11 May 2006
The Choctaw gambling Room in Durant, Oklahoma has started up tournament style gambling play with mid-week buy-in NLHE Freezeout tournament events. Having started May 2nd, and continuing through the month of June, they will be hosting tournament events every Tuesday and Wednesday. There are two events each of those days in which up to seventy players may register per event. Maximum payout for a full seventy person event will be $1925 to the winner, $1050 to 2nd place, and $350 going to the 3rd place finisher. Payouts are adjusted according to the number of players buying into each separate tournament.
"Besides the gambling prize payout for the winners, 1st and 2nd place winners in each event will automatically receive an entry into the "$10,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout Tournament" to be held on July 1st, 2006. Players that finish 3rd thru 10th place get their names put in a hopper for a drawing to win a "wildcard" entry into the $10,000 shootout", says Larry Mundy, the gambling room manager.
Players will start with 1500 in gambling chips and the blinds will increase every twenty minutes. Players can earn extra starting chips by playing in the live games immediately prior to the beginning of the tournament event. Bonuses are 100 extra starting chips for one hour of live game play before the tournament. Play a second hour and get 200 more chips. Play the third hour and you receive an additional 300 starting chips to go with what you already accumulated from hours one and two – grand total is a possible 600 extra tournament starting chips to add to the 1500 chips you receive with your buy-in. This can allow you to start the tournament with 2100 chips instead of just 1500. | |
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