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Updated Mon, 2011-04-18 02:53
You know about 5-a-side football now it’s time for 5-a-side poker with the 5-A-Side Poker Championship at Winner Poker with a guaranteed prize pool of over $100,000.
Poker is normally a solitary game, but not so right now at Winner Poker where the name of the game is team work. All members of the online poker community are invited to put together a team of 5 poker players and enter the 5-A-Side Poker Championship. Each team will try to qualify for the Five-A-Side Poker Championship Final by accumulating points through MTT’s, and ultimately play it out for a share of a prize pool exceeding $100,000.
Players can register their teams right now at the online poker site and can continue to do so up till May 8th. If you are a member of the online poker community and are thinking about putting together a team you can either pick from your friends who are already members of Winner Poker or you can take advantage of the refer a friend bonus to bring new friends to the site and get a special bonus to boot. You can also visit the Winner Poker Facebook page where you can search for new players to add to your team. Each team must have a Captain, a Forward, a Midfielder, a Defender, and a Keeper; it is up to the Captain to allocate the positions. Once your team is up and running the team members will register for the two weekly tournaments making up the 2 weekly leagues. The first is the Five-A-Side Poker Championship Gold League for which each tournament has a buy-in of $30 + $5 per team member, whilst the second one is the Five-A-Side Poker Championship Silver League with a buy-in of $5 + $1 per team member. Teams that qualify will partake in the Five-A-Side Poker Championship tournament events running from May 16th through to June 9th at the online poker site.