Titan Poker Awarding Five WSOP Seats

January 20, 2010

Titan Poker has announced a new promotion that will send five players to this year's World Series Of Poker main event in Las Vegas.

The World Challenge will see the site hosting a series of country-specific tournaments for players across the world with the top 200 meeting on May 16 for the right to go to Nevada.

The special promotion begins with two rounds of weekly tournaments contested by twelve different countries or regions. All results will be posted onto a special leaderboards allowing players to track their progress. Titan Poker stated that tournaments involving more than one nation will only be open to players from those specific countries.

After these two rounds, the top players qualify for a final batch of eight tournaments with the results and rankings again posted onto a leaderboard. Each winning player will receive a prize package worth $13,000, which will cover their $10,000 main event buy-in while also giving them $3,000 for expenses.

Titan Poker sent a delegation of 32 players from around the world to participate in the recently concluded Irish Winter Festival poker tournament. One of these, Germany's Igor Kurganov, finished in fifth place to win $51,275 while two other Titan Poker qualifiers also finished in the money.

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