Guaranteed Tournaments for the Upcoming Weekend

August 07, 2008 - Harry Sinclair

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Online Action This Weekend

There are plenty of reasons to stay in this weekend with loads of sport on. With the start of the Olympics, there could be loads of late night sessions watching the athletes. So use this to your advantage and multitask by playing some of these big online poker tournaments at the same time.

Friday 8th August (All times GMT)

The 7.45pm $50,000 on Titan it is a fantastic tournament with the buy-in only $55. It could get your weekend off to a flyer before it has truly begun.

There is also a midnight tourney on PokerStars which is the $25,000 $109 buy-in - which always has great prizes for making it to the final table

Saturday 9th August (All times GMT)

As ever the weekend begins with two massive tournaments on Titanpoker.com

7.30pm: $50,000 guaranteed and if that wasn't enough for you there is another $50,000 on Titan starting 15 minutes later at 745pm. This means that even if you get knocked out in one tournament you will still be alive to play in the second.

8pm: PartyPoker also has a $50,000 tournament on Saturday with a 3pm start time and a $320 buy-in.

Midnight: A tourney for later in the day is the $25k event at PokerStars.com that although only guaranteeing $25k will have a huge field and a massive prize pool.

Sunday 10th August (All times GMT)

2.30pm Ladbrokes have their early tournament, with a $270 buy-in.

5.45pm: It starts with the $215 buy-in on the $300,000 guaranteed tourney at Partypoker.com.

5.45pm $1⁄2 million tournament at PokerStars - the Sunday warm up - which has as big a prize pool as most tournaments have within any week, buy-in is $215.

6.30pm: The $100,000 at Betfair begins with a $550 buy-in.

7pm: The tournaments continue with the Ladbrokes $109 buy-in $100,000 and the $250K tournament on Titan with a $215 buy-in.

7pm Full Tilt get into the action as The Sunday Brawl starts with a 100k guaranteed event which is $240 to enter. The best thing about this tournament is that if you knock anyone out then you immediately win $40.

7.45pm: $50,000 $55 buy-in tournament on Titan begins.

9.30pm: $1million guaranteed on PokerStars - it is the biggest event of the week and has a huge field to get through, but the prize pool is the biggest around. Play usually goes on into the very early hours

11pm: $750k Guaranteed on Fulltiltpoker.com $216 to enter

Even if you have had a run of bad luck over the weekend there is always one last chance to make some good money with the $25,000 tournie at midnight on
PokerStars.

12.05am The Sunday Mulligan on Full Tilt which has $150k Guaranteed and is a tournament for those who suffer a bad beat early on in the earlier big tournaments again it is $216 to enter.