- The week-long tournaments, with combined guarantees of $150,000, represent a major step up for the operator.
- These now compliment the operator’s regular Sunday Challenge, its existing weekly major.
- Unlike other weekly tournament series, which normally target Sunday, the Dragon Series final day takes place on Saturday.
888 has announced two new weekly tournaments under the banner Dragon Series. The week-long event, with combined guarantees of $150,000, represent a major step up for the operator in terms of weekly majors. It seeks to compete with similar investment from its primary competitors.
The so-called series is made up of a $100,000-guaranteed Dragon main tournament with a $109 buy-in, and a companion $50,000 Mini Dragon with a $12 buy-in.
These now compliment the operator’s regular Sunday Challenge, its existing weekly major, which guarantees $25,000 with a buy-in of $109. It runs every Sunday.
The Dragon marks a four-times increase over this existing tournament and allows it to tout a six-figure weekly guarantee to compete alongside the GGPoker Masters and the seven-figure guarantees of the PokerStars Sunday Million and partypoker MILLION.
