The Ontario Poker Championships started at BetMGM Poker Ontario and PartyPoker Ontario on Sunday, September 22, and will run through October 8, offering nearly two hundred unique events across three buyin orbits and giving out over C$500,000 in guaranteed prize money.
Action started with a handful of events on the opening Sunday, with the C$55 The Opener and C$109 The Big Sunday offering the most substantial prize pools of C$5k and C$20k respectively.
The Ontario Poker Championships will keep running over the next two weeks, with plenty of opportunity to compete at any buyin level you choose, and the massive C$100k guaranteed Main Event being the most attractive event of the entire series.
Sign up with BetMGM Poker ON today to get in the Ontario Poker Championships action or keep reading to find out more about key events and ways you can qualify for your seat, or you can sign up to PartyPoker ON and play the series too.
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Multi-Day Main Events for Every Bankroll
As part of the Ontario Poker Championships, BetMGM Poker ON and PartyPoker ON are throwing a total of three Main Events, each offering multiple opportunities to play in Day 1 and a substantial guaranteed prize pool compared to the buying.
The three Main Events on offer are:
- L: C$11 Main Event PKO — C$5,000 Guaranteed
- M: C$55 Main Event PKO — C$20,000 Guaranteed
- H: C$530 Main Event PKO — C$100,000 Guaranteed
Each of the Main Events will feature the same two-day structure, with Day 1 flights running on September 30 and October 7, and the final Day 2 running on October 8, the ultimate day of the series.
In addition, the C$530 Main Event H will give players a chance to win their way into the event through Phases, with C$5.50 Phase 1 Hyper Turbo events running every day and giving players with limited bankrolls a chance to build their way up to the Main Event.
Overall, players will get to compete for C$125,000 in prizes across the three Main Events, with overlay a very real possibility in each version considering previous tournament series in the province and the early turnout at the Ontario Poker Championships.
Added Value Found in Early Events
The first day of the Ontario Poker Championship saw a total of 10 numbered events run, and five of those paid out overlay as the number of players registering for the events did not match the guaranteed prize pool.
The most significant overlay happened in Event #02-H The Big Sunday PKO, which saw 157 players pay the C$109 buyin for a grand total of C$17,113 including the rake. That meant the operator had to front nearly C$3,000 to match the C$20,000 guarantee, adding plenty of value for everyone in the tournament.
Event #04-L 6-Max PKO Fast and a handful of other events also offered extra value, although the overlay in these tournaments was less significant.
The turnout is likely to go up as the Championships move along, but the operator could still fall short of meeting the guarantee in some of the key events, including the three Main Events that should offer the most added value.
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Win Your Way into Ontario Poker Championships
Like most major tournament series online, the Ontario Poker Championships offers a wide selection of satellite events you can use to win your way into the key events.
BetMGM Poker ON and PartyPoker ON are running daily satellites with buyins as low as C$0.01, where you can win further satellite tickets and build your way up to buyins in the Main Event and other key tournaments of the Championships. And in case you didn’t realize, players at PartyPoker Ontario can access the qualifiers and the the Ontario Poker Championships too.
The various Added Tickets Bonanza satellites offer extra value for players who enter them, including tickets to low and mid-level OPC events that are added into the prize pool by the operator.
For example, for a price of just C$0.22, you could play in a C$50 Added Tickets Bonanza event, where top finishers will receive entry into the C$11 L Main Event for next to no investment.
On top of these added-value events, BetMGM Poker ON and PartyPoker Ontario are also running plenty of regular satellite tournaments across all buyins, where you can win entry into the C$530 Main Event with the C$100k Guarantee and other events.
Join Ontario Poker Championships Today
The Ontario Poker Championships series is in full swing, and dozens of events are waiting on the schedule over the coming days, including the three exclusive PKO Main Events on October 7.
The rich tournament schedule over the next couple of weeks will bring events across all buyins and game formats for Ontario online poker, along with dozens of satellite tournaments where you can compete for seats in the key events of the Championships.
Sign up with BetMGM Poker ON or PartyPoker ON right now to access all the satellites and feeders and win your way into the biggest events of this year’s Ontario Poker Championships or enter the events directly and compete for over half a million dollars in the biggest tournament series in Ontario this month.
