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Paradise Poker Here to Stay Sportingbet's Paradise Poker.com has been around since the start of the online poker boom some years back, and has experienced fluctuating fortunes as a business, with especially hard times befalling it as a result of the UIGEA and a withdrawal from the US market. This week the site gave notice that it is still competitive with the announcement that it is to offer its largest tournament yet, going head to head with the industry leaders by offering a million Euro guaranteed prizepool. The buy in is actually at 1000 Euro, which is pretty steep for most people. That might be a major reason that there has been a lull in the levels of people paying outright for a seat. Many hopefuls are playing round the clock in several qualifying tournaments so they might win a package to the event. This is actually a very common trend with most of the competitive major poker online tournaments.
At least for now, Paradise Poker will be one of the most popular
labels, and it looks like it’s not going anywhere. Most of the
“competition” is actually just small potatoes to the major
company, and it looks like this latest move is really just a
power play to show the world that it is still the leading online
poker casino. Other online poker sites can only do smaller
tournaments, and certainly can’t guarantee that big of a prize
pool. Certainly many poker tournaments offer the same ways to
get in, which Paradise Poker is not shying away from. But in
this holiday season, where many families are tightening the
straps on the wallet, a substantial buy in might be a little out
of reach. Back to December 2008 Archive. |
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