- French leading regulated online poker room Winamax is currently running its long-established and ultra-popular King 5 promotion.
- King 5 is a team-based competition format where 300 teams share guaranteed prize money of €200,000.
- Winamax has been successfully running this competition since 2008.
- This year, despite the uncertainties with the WSOP taking place this Summer, thousands of players have flocked to qualify.
France’s leading regulated online poker room Winamax is currently running its long-established and ultra-popular King 5 promotion.
King 5 is a team-based competition where players compete over €200,000 in WSOP packages. Participation is free, and teams proceed through multiple stages over many weeks.
Players in the top four teams win a Las Vegas package to participate in the World Series of Poker (WSOP); players in the winning team get a $10,000 Main Event buy-in.
Winamax has been successfully running this competition since 2008. This year, despite the uncertainty of the WSOP this summer, thousands of players have flocked to qualify for the competition, setting a record turnout.
As per the operator, nearly 15,000 teams—meaning over 70,000 players—have participated in two rounds of Stage 1, which was held on February 9 and 16, beating the previous record set in 2013.
