The Tournament :The event will be No-limit Texas Hold'em Freezeout (no rebuys). Each player will buy-in for £6,000 and start with 10,000 chips.
The 56 players will be made up as follows :
- 44 players will be invited to play
- 8 on-line qualifiers
- 4 land-based qualifiers
Participation in the series by invitation will be at William Hill's discretion. Due to the limited number of seats in the series, we are unable to extend this invitation to include more than one series at a time.
There will be 7 single table satellites - 8 players in each satellite. The winner of each satellite will go through to the final. The runner-up in each satellite will go through to a "runners-up" play-off satellite. The winner of this play-off will go to the final. Every player in the final will begin with 80,000 tournament chips.
Prize Pool :A total prize fund of £500,000 will be comprised of the buy-ins plus a £164,000 top-up from William Hill.
- 1st prize - £175,000
- 2nd prize - £100,000
- 3rd prize - £70,000
- 4th prize - £50,000
- 5th prize - £35,000
- 6th prize - £25,000
- 7th prize - £20,000
- 8th prize - £15,000
- Runner up in semi final £10,000
