Tranchant Poker Tour enters the scene
After Partouche and Barrière, the Tranchant Casinos have announced Tuesday, 4 March 2008 the opening of their own poker tournament in France, “Tranchant Poker Tour “. A series of tournaments drives the winners to the finals at Bâle in Switzerland on the 5th and 6th of July 2008.
The six satellites for the Swiss finals, with a capacity of 200 players maximum, are held from April 12 until June 14 2008 for a buy-in of 250+50 €. Each “qualification stage” will be held in France and will have a prize pool of 48.000 € (200 participants) and 7 tickets for the final stage of Tranchant Poker Tour.
The final tournament, for which the television rights are still negotiating, is scheduled for Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th of July 2008 at the “Swiss Las Vegas Resort” casino, in Bâle. Located in Switzerland, on Rhin, Bâle is one of the towns having German origins with 660.000 inhabitants, known for its carnival and contemporary art fair (Art Basel).
The price of the cup final tickets will be around 800+100 €, for an endowment of 160.000€ (prize pool for 200 players), which will be divided between the 18 best runners-up. Besides the announced prize, the first four finalists arriving at the cup final table will receive for the 1st position an entry to World Poker Tour, for the 2nd – an entry to European PokerStars Poker Tour, for the 3rd – an entry to World Series of Poker and for the 4th - a ticket to a “Swiss Las Vegas Resort” tournament.
Tranchant Group is the third big casinos group to propose poker Texas Hold’em tournaments after the game authorization in France casinos in May 2007. Between these three groups, Barrière- Accor suggests its series of tournaments since November 2007. The initial conditions for the players of high stakes tournaments, inside the 35 casinos of the group were not agreed at all. The entrance tickets for the main tournaments did not stop decreasing in value, passing progressively from 5.000€ to 1.500€ recently at Dinard casino.
Barrière-Accor group apparently has over-estimated the number of high limits players in France. This is equally generated by the refund taxes of tickets obtained from the satellite qualification tournaments for the finals. The French rate-setting binds an effect towards the casinos over the possibility of refunding tickets money obtained from a satellite tournament.
The Partouche group and its “Patrouche Poker Tour” has a certain success over the low budget players. It seems equally better to manage the rules touching the refunding of the qualification tickets or to take back the satellite torunaments.
The “Partouche Poker Tour” proposes six tournaments “super satellites” of 1075€ until June 2008 and also twice a week satellites of 125€ (10 players) in 41 of their casinos. These qualifications lead to a final tournament predicted to have the opening in September 2008 at the Palm Beach casino in Cannes. This cup final will have a prize pool of 2 million €, from which 1 million € for the final winner.
May 09 2008 10:30 am | Uncategorized