Daniel Negreanu Canadian College Poker Championship

Daniel Negreanu keeps on making headlines and new promotions to get keep furthering his name in the game of poker. His latest promotion is to find the Best Canadian College Poker Player. This new event is an online Texas Hold’em event which will take place on Fullcontactpoker.net. This event is only open to Canadian College/University students and the winner of the event will receive a bursary to cover their school tuition. What a great idea! Here is the format of the event:

Beginning in January 2006 Full Contact Poker will have 16 weeks of online qualifying tournaments where the top three finishers from each week will advance to the “Online” semi-finals which will be played sometime in March. The top 48 players (Top three from each of the 16 qualifiers) will then play in the semi final online event. These 48 will play until there are only 6 participants remaining. The game will then stop with your exact chip counts being registered. These final 6 will be flown into a city in Canada to play a live internet broadcasted final table until Full Contact Poker can crown the Daniel Negreanu Canadian College Champion. At the present time Full Contact Poker is in negotiations with Television networks to broadcast the event on Television.

Once a champion has been crowned the winner will then take on Negreanu heads up and play for an additional scholarship. If Negreanu wins the heads up battle he will then donate those funds to a charity of his choice. The best part about this event is that it will cost students exactly zero dollars to enter. So for you Canadian college students don’t miss out on this glorious opportunity.

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Staying with the poker theme, another major poker tournament has been announced and it is the Heavyweight Championship of Poker. The inaugural tournament's main event will have the largest buy-in of any major poker tournament in the history of poker, with competitors spending over $100,000 to enter in the event. Here is the breakdown of this major event:

“The main event will offer an estimated prize pool of $10 million, with a first place payout of $5 million. Participation is limited to 100 players, 40 of whom will buy-in directly while the remaining 60 will qualify through satellite events held in poker venues across the United States. Apparently, almost all of the 40 direct buy-in seats have already been filled by professional players. Negotiations to televise the event are currently underway, though no other details have been released.
The most unique aspect of the HPC is that the champion will be required to defend their title against any challenger after holding it for just three months. The challenger will be required to pony up $1.12 million for the chance to compete heads-up against the champ, while the champ will put up a $1 million match fee (withheld from his original HPC winnings). The winner will take home the $2 million prize purse, and the loser will be awarded a free seat at the next HPC. Challenges are expected to take place at least once every thirty days up until one month before the next Heavyweight Poker Championship is scheduled.”
I tell you what this looks like an event that is going to be awesome to watch. An actual Heavy Weight Champion of Poker is going to be declared. I love the challenge idea and the boxing format. I wonder if players are going to start having managers and then holding press conferences. Is there going to be way ins? Just kidding but I could see this tournament taking a major spin into different directions. There really is a lot of things that could be done with this tournament. It will definitely be interesting to follow and see how it unfolds.


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