$2 MILLION ONLINE POKER TOURNEY DELIVERS BIG PRIZES

7 March 2008

iPoker's latest online tournament winner took home $434 000


iPoker network's recent $2 million guaranteed online poker tournament produced major six figure rewards for the top five finishers this week, including a whopping $ 434 000 winner's purse to "lekimmd."

The event attracted 1 380 players whose buy-ins boosted the guaranteed prize-pool of $2 million by a further $70 000 in the competition, which lasted for 14 hours. The network was clearly pleased with the response to the tournament and plans further $2 million guaranteed events.

"The $2 Million tournament generated amazing interest among our players, who competed for months for a chance to make it to the money," said Titan Poker Manager, Robin Steele. "Now our players have set their sights on the even higher prize pool available at the upcoming ECOOP II tournaments. Scheduled for May, ECOOP II features a total of 10 tournaments with $3.5 Million in guaranteed cash prizes."

This week's tourney produced major payouts for the top five players around the final table. Second placed "sigge79" collected $227 700; third finisher "dypwhuer" pocketed $165 600 and fourth placed "florin 76" took home $124 200. "fishface1" collected the last of the six figure payouts for his fifth placing at $103 500, and even the first elimination from the nine seat final table took home $28 980.

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