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Wide range of $1,500 to $25,000 guaranteed tournaments every night at Olympic Online Poker5 June 2012(PRESS RELEASE) -- The selection of low ($2-$10) and medium ($11-$50) buy-in tournaments offered by Olympic Online is greatly varied. Altogether there are over 20 regular nightly NL Hold'em tournaments with guaranteed prize pool of $1,500 to $25,000 starting between 18:00 and 24:00 local time (GMT+3), including about a dozen rebuy tournaments and almost as many freezeouts: $25,000 Guaranteed R/A: • 22:00 with buy-in of $50+$5 (not scheduled on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) $15,000 Guaranteed R/A: • 21:00 with buy-in of $30+$3 (not scheduled on Fridays and Sundays) • 22:00 with buy-in of $15+$1.50 (not scheduled on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) • 20:00 with buy-in of $10+$1 (only Sundays) $10,000 Guaranteed R/A: • 20:00 with buy-in of $10+$1 (not scheduled on Sundays) • 23:00 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 • 23:45 with buy-in of $30+$3 $10,000 GP Freezeout: • 21:00 with buy-in of $50+$5 (not scheduled on Fridays and Sundays) $5,000 R/A (6-Player tables): • 19:10 with buy-in of $25+$2.50 (not scheduled on Sundays) $5,000 Freezeout: • 21:30 with buy-in of $10+$1 (not scheduled on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) $4,000 GP Freezeout: • 20:45 with buy-in of $20+$2 (not scheduled on Wednesdays and Sundays) • 22:00 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 $4,000 GP Speed R/A: • 21:10 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 $4,000 GP Turbo R/A: • 24:00 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 (not scheduled on Sundays) $3,000 Guaranteed R/A: • 18:30 with buy-in of $3+$0.30 (not scheduled on Saturdays) $3,000 GP Speed R/A: • 19:40 with buy-in of $2+$0.20 • 20:40 with buy-in of $2+$0.20 $2,000 GP Freezeout: • 19:00 with buy-in of $10+$1 (not scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays) • 19:45 with buy-in of $20+$2 (not scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays) • 23:40 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 • 24:00 with buy-in of $10+$1 • 20:20 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 (only Saturdays and Sundays) $2,000 Guaranteed R/A: • 19:15 with buy-in of $7+$0.70 (not scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays) $1,500 GP Freezeout: • 20:20 with buy-in of $5+$0.50 (not scheduled on Saturdays and Sundays) Usually there are a few hundred to a thousand players taking part in these tournaments, so they will not last too long, running 5-6 hours, turbos 3-4 hours and speed tournaments a little over 2 hours. We got an opinion from “rasmer,” an Olympic Online player who is regularly taking part in these tournaments: “$10,000 to $25,000 guaranteed tournaments are some of my favorites to play on a regular basis, mainly because they provide sufficiently large prize funds, but with not overly big buy-ins. They are a good way to compete for decent prize moneys when still following the bankroll management rules. Hopefully, the recently introduced late registration option will give an opportunity to raise the guaranteed prize pools even more. From the positive side I’d also point out that the average level of the game is not very high. While there are a number of winning regulars, their amount is not significant.” Recently he even managed to win two tournaments on the same night, $10,000 Guaranteed R/A, with 441 players and winnings of $2,347, and $4,000 GP Turbo R/A, with 236 players and winnings of $868. His comments: “$10,000 Guaranteed R/A tournaments have been always very lucky for me. I have won them a couple of times earlier too. This win wasn’t much different from the others, but it became more special when I also won another tournament on the same night. Usually I consider reaching to several final tables as a very successful day but getting two first places during the night was a pleasant surprise.” |