Venues, Prizes and Financial stuff

by Rich Johnson on July 12th, 2010

Well, we have managed to design and launch the website to promote the Byte Poker 2010 Tournament, now we just need to firm up the other major elements...

Venue

We are talking to the Loose Cannon near Cannon Street and also The Grosvenor Casino London Victoria near Edgeware Road. Both are excellent poker venues and we would be happy to hold the tournament at either location. We do have a couple of standby venues just in case we can't work out a good deal.

The European Poker Tour London is starting in late September so we don't want to clash with that otherwise we won't have many entrants. :)

Prizes

We were looking at how we can have a reasonably good prize pool while still being able to donate a large sum of money to the cause. We are exploring a few variations but at the moment this feels like the right approach:

First place receives £500 cash. Second place through to ninth place will each get an actual prize, decreasing in value (which hopefully will be donated by some wonderful companies). If you would like to donate a prize (and be listed on the site and mentioned on the evening) please contact us.

Financial Stuff

The guys have been thinking long and hard about the buy-in (entrance fee) for the tournament. At the moment we seem to agree that £30 is a good round number. Obviously if you shove all your chips in on the first hand and get busted by a lucky pair of aces (which will probably happen to me) you can then re-buy for another £20. Don't forget this is going to charity.

In fact it's probably a good time to mention that if this tournament is a huge success and we end up taking in a much larger amount, it all goes to charity!

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