The competition in the online casino poker industry is fierce, but the outcome is pretty great for the internet poker players who benefit from the trend of increased prize pools at Grand Tournament events. The online casinos is constantly forced to not only compete with the land poker tournaments that are offered and entice players away from the online sites, but also other internet poker sites that offer higher prize pools or a variety of tournament structures. For PokerRoom.com, the latest prize pool increase at the Mansion gambling group was a prime indication that it was time for the online casino poker site to also increase prize pools.
With that in mind, the online casino poker site, PokerRoom.com announced that all of the Grand Tournaments, effectively immediately, will have a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. The online casinos site anticipates that the new higher prize pool will not only make the site more competitive with other sites, but will also attract more professional players to the game.
The online casino site has three Grand Tournament No-Limit Hold’em Freeze-outs scheduled over the nest three months, and expects an increase in the number of players both buying into the tournament event, and those participating in the qualifying satellite events. Buy-in is $1,000 + $40…or other online casinos players looking to avoid the fairly high buy-in can try their chances at the qualifying events for a much smaller amount. With so many online poker sites to choose from, PokerRoom.com seems to have made the smart choice to stay competitive with the ever changing market rather than keep the lower minimum prize pool amounts. |
