These days the fusion between live poker and online poker comes mostly with tournament players, as many online poker sites offer players the chance to win entries to major live tournaments through online play. Everest Poker is joining the party in this one with their latest promotion, in which they’re offering skilled players the chance to win their way into the Grand Finale of the inaugural 3 Länder Poker Tour, a Poker Tour which has been running over the course of 2010 throughout Austria, Switzerland and Germany.
Everest Poker is one of the leading poker rooms online and have often been the sole poker-related table sponsor of the World Series of Poker. The site does not accept players from the United States at this time, and derives its player base largely from within Europe and the United Kingdom. They offer a wide variety of both cash games and tournaments, and throughout 2010 have hosted and continue to host, in cooperation with brick and mortar casinos, the inaugural 3 Länder Tour.
The 3 Länder Tour is a series of poker tournaments taking place throughout 2010, and if the name sounds German to you then you’re spot on, and that’s certainly no mistake. The tour scheduled stops in Austria, Switzerland and Germany, with only the Grand Finale left at this stage, which will be taking place in Vienna. The event kicks off on December the 8th and will run through until the 11th, and sports a guaranteed prize pool of €500,000. It is possible to buy-in directly to the tournament for €2,000 + €200, but as the Tour is presented by Everest Poker, there are also alternative means of getting yourself seat.
Everest Poker is running a large number of satellite tournaments to the 3LT, and are in fact putting up a fantastic $12,000 in 3LT prize packages every week! Mondays at 20:30GMT will see a $336+24 satellite which has a guaranteed prize pool of two $4,000 3LT prize packages, enough for the €2000+€200 tournament buy-in and $1,000 for travel and hotel accommodation. On Wednesdays a $100+$9 satellite tournament will be hosted in a similar style, this time with one $4,000 3LT Prize Package guaranteed. Of course these satellites don’t need to set one back even the hundreds of dollars that it costs to buy-in direct, as Everest Poker is running Steps satellites from as little as $2 each and every day to give you a chance to win one of these fantastic prize packages.
This 3 Länder Tour is the first of its kind, and as the Everest Poker website itself says, you have the chance to “be a part of poker history and compete in the first casino poker tour hosted in cooperation between an online poker room and casinos in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.” It’s great that we’re seeing more and more situations like this, where satellite tournaments give talented players the chance to compete on a top level, even if they don’t have the means necessary to buy in to these very expensive tournaments directly.