As you may or may not know, the team at Poker Media Australia are known to spend a lazy Saturday (and Monday, and Thursday) on the punt so there’s one event on the poker calendar that piques our interest each year.
After the success of last year’s event, Crown is again holding its innovative Melbourne Cup Sweep Poker Tournament. This unique event starts as a normal multi-table freezeout with play progressing until we have 24 players remaining.
The tournament then pauses and the players’ chips counted. Once the chip leader is established they will have the opportunity to choose a horse from the Melbourne Cup Field. The second chip leader will choose a horse from the 23 remaining, the third chip leader from the 22 remaining and so on until all 24 players have been allocated a horse.
Those 24 players will be cheering their horses home in the Melbourne Cup because if their horse finishes in the top three placings they win a 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event seat worth $10,600! The tournament is supported by a week of qualifiers leading up to Monday’s $340 buy-in finale, which starts at 7.10pm.
Melbourne Cup Sweep Week schedule
October 24 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 24 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 24 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 24 (7.10pm) $20 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 24 (9pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 25 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 25 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 25 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 25 (7.10pm) $20 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 25 (9pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 26 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 26 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 26 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 26 (7.10pm) $200 Wednesday Wonder No Limit Hold’em (20k start bank)
October 26 (9pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 27 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 27 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 27 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 27 (7.10pm) $20 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 27 (9pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 28 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 28 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 28 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 28 (7.10pm) $20 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 28 (9pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 29 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 29 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 29 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 29 (7.10pm) $50 Derby Day Fifty Cubed w/ one $50 rebuy & add-on
October 29 (9pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 30 (12.10pm) $125 Aussie Millions Deep Stack Series
October 30 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 30 (7.10pm) $20 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 31 (10.10am) Free Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 31 (12.10pm) $10 Cup Sweep Tournament Qualifier w/$10 rebuys
October 31 (4.10pm) $85 Cup Sweep Tournament Satellite (1 in 5 qualify)
October 31 (7.10pm) $340 Melbourne Cup Sweep Tournament
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