Prepare to hit the 888poker Ontario tables as you've never hit them before because the ChampionChips series takes place between April 14 and April 22. The ChampionChips series is a nine-day poker tournament festival that has low-stakes grinders in mind, giving every 888poker Ontario player the chance to experience the thrill of playing tournament poker with large guaranteed prize pools on the line but without having to risk large chunks of their bankrolls.
The bustling 888poker Ontario ChampionChips schedule includes twenty-one numbered events and a dozen side events. Before you clamber for your calculator to tot up all the guaranteed prize pools, PokerNews can tell you that more than $100,000 is guaranteed to be won by the time the final champion is announced. That is an impressive sum, considering the largest buy-in is $109, and the average buy-in is an affordable $21.
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ChampionChips #21 - $30,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event Day 2
$60
$30,000
All monetary amounts are Canadian dollars unless otherwise specified
As you can see from the schedule above, ChampionChips buy-ins start at $5.50, increase to $109, and have plenty of choice between those extremes. All but six tournaments have guarantees of at least $1,000, with two tipping the scales at a cool $30,000.
Your first opportunity to play for a five-figure prize pool comes on the opening night of the ChampionChips festival. Event #02 is a $109 buy-in, $30,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Opening Ceremony, which serves as a great way to get the show on the road.
The eagerly anticipated Mystery Bounty Main Event is the other $30,000 guaranteed ChampionChips tournament. Day 1s run every day from April 14 right up to April 22, which is also when the tournament concludes. $60 is the buy-in unless you win your way in via the plentiful satellites, and you will play for a guaranteed $30,000 with one of the mystery bounties awarding $3,000! Good luck!
Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the United Kingdom, and has worked in the poker industry since 2008, and worked for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he became the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from live reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his role of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.
