I received a mailer in August letting me know that there will be some big happenings on the free slots tournament scene. Well, I guess that $500,000 in prize money counts as big!
This is a ten wek series of slot tournaments where there will be $500,000 in prizes divided up amoung 800 winners. That's good because it looks like a lot of people are going to get a piece of the pie. Not that I'm against giving out a huge life-altering sum of cash to just one person, but I like my chances better when there are several hundred winners instead of just one winner.
The semi-finals are taking place October 2nd through the 4th. They have a prize pool of $100,000 that will be split between 200 different players. One of those players will be taking home $50,000. That, is a good day.
The Finals are being held November 7th through the 10th. There will be a whopping $200,000 in the prize pool, and that will be shared amoung the top 200 finishers. The top finisher will receive a $100,000 payday.
That's a lot of action and a lot of money for a tournament you can enter for free. I'm almost expecting that the World Series of Slots will be a yearly event, but I'm not sure. I am sure that I'll be taking a stab at it since it's free, and there's a lot of money to be won.