Full Tilt Poker Announces Onyx Cup

Full Tilt Poker announced the Onyx Cup. A tournament series with buy-ins from $100,000 to $300,000, with an estimated $30 million prize pool across the entire series. There will be five preliminary events, culminating in a $250,000 buy-in Grand Finale that will see $1 million added to the prize pool.

The top three finishers in each event will earn points toward the Onyx Cup leaderboard. At the end of the Grand Finale, the person with the most points at the top of the leaderboard will earn the title of Onyx Cup Champion, and will be presented with the Onyx Cup, get a luxury sports car, and be acknowledged as "the player that conquered poker's elite."

Onyx Cup events will take place in the United States, Europe, and Asia and will be broadcast in 20 different languages across 40 countries. Qualifiers will begin on March 15 on Full Tilt Poker.


http://www.fulltiltpoker.net/press-announcement

Pfft.. chump change. I'm waiting for the $1 million dollar buy-in tournaments that FTP will inevitably put on next year. Then, it may be worth to play.. but $100K? Nah.. not even worth getting up for in the morning.

I ball so probs gonna play all of them and win the onyx cup, they can keep the sports car i only use my bugatti

I lol'd

tournies sure are expensive these days. dayumm.

Stupid.

Great publicity?

they said satelittes on FTP will be put up tomorrow. LOL, there might be a like 15-round freeroll for a seat in one.

Probably the only ones playing will be the FTP pros and they'll probably be paid most of their buy-in. FT doesn't get the volume that PS gets, so they're creating higher buy-ins? They need to rethink their strategy.

Yeah the million dollar entry fee will have to be the only logical next step. It will probably be announced right after that unknown player wins the first onyx cup, because the buy-ins weren't high enough to keep the "non-elites" out.

........or 17-year-olds.

PS has about 2.3 times more players so they can pull it off. I'm gonna ball park and say around 30 play?

btw starts in may for Mortis if he decides its a worthy tournament to take down

There are many internet pro's (not sponsored) who will definitely play in this, regardless of what site it is on, aswell as them already playing on all major sites. I'm sure a few PS pro's will play it too

http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/onyx-cu...how-to-qualify


Freeroll Tournaments

Play for your completely free Onyx Cup Series Event 1 prize package through our Onyx Cup Series Freeroll tournaments. Qualify through a Round 1 Freeroll into Round 2 for the opportunity to compete for your prize package in the Final Freeroll.

• Round 1 Freerolls are completely free and award four tickets to a weekly Round 2 Freeroll.
• Weekly Round 2 Freerolls award 100 Tournament Tickets to the Final Freeroll.
• The Final Freeroll awards one Onyx Cup Series Event 1 prize package.

Yeah those round 1 freerolls run like every 5 minutes in the play money section.

Well, maybe if someone wants to stake me for it. Then I'd do it.. just so I could help the person who stakes me. Obviously the tournament is going to be full of fish and would be easy peasy! But.. I probably have something else to do that day, anyway.

Who has free 100K?!)))

I think I have a few extra 100k bills in my wallet, need anything else...lol

They are really gonna have 1mil buy-ins next year? Wow..

I thought this was a live tourney. From everything I have read it will be televised, and imo watching online poker...on my t.v. just sounds redundant.

I've registered for Round 1...see you guys ))

WOW.. That one is a beauty! I know that Teddy Roosivelt is on the 1k bill, but that's about it. Which site did you get the picture of that bill Vanquish? I want to learn more.

I've already heard Negreanu complain that the first event is at the same time as the EPT Grand Final. He said if they move the date he will play, otherwise he's probably out. I bet a lot of the European pros and PokerStars pros will have to miss out in favor of the EPT, which leads me to believe this will end up being a very small field of mostly Full Tilt sponsored players.

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Got my Round 2 ticket...

Congratulations, good for you then. I just log in yesterday and never though that I have missed some of the good games. I will just wait my luck for the next game.

Anyone else happen to notice who won the seat in Sunday's $640 buyin qualifier for the OnyxCup ($100K entry)? Yup.. it was Sorel Mizzi. There were 124 entrants, 1st place won $100K(+5k) entry. {over $30,000 overlay in this satellite!).
So I guess it won't just be a field full of sponsored FTP pros... especially seeing as there's now one 'former FTP pro' who won a satellite for it.

I read something about the final hand where Sorel (Imper1um) made what 'appeared' to be a preflop misclick (adding an additional 'zero' to the end of their bet... a trick I've seen some other pros do in the past (ie. ShaunDeeb but was during postflop play)).. raising up ~1/3 stack pre, (instead of 2.1bb) villain (or perhaps 'hero' in this hand, lol)... fell for it & reraised allin with A7o.. & got called by stronger Ax & lost. (< something like that anyways).