To celebrate the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, independent online poker room Unibet, will be running a tournament series called the Rio Showdown MTT Series. It will coincide with the Olympic games, running for two weeks between August 5 to 21.
The Olympic-themed Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) series will have a mixture of freerolls and low stakes buy-ins. Players will compete for leaderboard points. The top 100 finishers on the leaderboard will receive cash prizes or luxury travel packages.
The top prize is a five-night Brazil adventure tour, where the lucky winner will embark on a jaguar tracking excursion that will help track the movements of the near threatened species. The winner will receive:
- Five-night stay for two people in an eco-lodge
- Daily animal tracking with a nature conservationist by motorboat, 4×4 and horseback
- All meals included
- €2,500 paid in cash to your Unibet account to cover flights and expenses
Other top finishers will receive their own travel packages including a five-star London “high life” stay, a weekend Iceland Indulgence holiday a 5-star Amsterdam art break and a getaway to San Sebastian in Spain. Each package is worth between €2500 and €5000.
Players finishing between 6th and 10th place on the leaderboard will win a €750 Unibet UK Tour package; players finishing 11th to 20th will win a €250 Unibet Open ticket and the remaining players in the top 100 will win cash prizes.
There are 65 tournaments that contribute towards the contest leaderboard. Points will be awarded for the top half of all finishers in every tournament. The higher the buy-in the more points that can be won.
There will be turbo, bounty and deepstack no limit tournaments, “flip” all-in tournaments, plus PLO with “crazy” structures with 1-minute blind increments.
Players can enter daily freerolls by placing a bet at any of Unibet’s sportsbook’s. Other daily online poker tournaments that have €2, €4 and €10 buy-in levels also count towards the leaderboard promotion.
Games will start in the European evening with a 30-minute staggered start, so that players have a chance of entering all four tournaments.
