The Grand Success at Hollywood Poker - Poker Room Articles
The Grand is not only a new and promising poker movie starring among others Shannon Elisabeth [link to article]. More than that, The Grand is a very interesting online poker tournament running over at Hollywood Poker.
The buy-in to The Grand contest is - a grand, or one thousand dollars. At this writing, the top notation is 846 entrants, thus creating a robust prize pool of $846,000.
Guaranteed prize pool overtrumped
If the number of entrants would decrease, which is not to be expected, Hollywood Poker guarantees that the prize pool will never fall below one half million dollars, $500,000.
The winner in the last competition carried home $200K, an easy burden to say the least.
Most of us find the buy-in on the steep side, but as you'd expect there are plenty of satellite action paving the way to this comfy poker pantheon, with buy-ins starting at $3.
Play is spread out over three days
Maybe you're hesitant about playing big online events, knowing that if you do well, you'll often have to stay up all night. In the worst case scenario only to book a frustrating bubble finish.
Good news, such affliction won't come into question here. To deal with this particular problem in online poker, Hollywood Poker runs there Grand tournament over three separate flights. It's just like in the WSOP!
So, don't fret, there'll be plenty of time to rest and reload the batteries on your way to the final table.
Another feature that makes The Grand one of those genuine poker events that genuine poker lovers crave is the deep stack structure. You start with 10,000 in chips, and blind levels go up only every 30 minutes.
That leaves you plenty of room to apply your skills and really play poker. This certainly is no covert Bingo hustle, like so many other online poker tournaments.
