A week ago TonyBet Poker announced the launch of the first Open Face Chinese Poker series in online poker history. On Monday, that history became a reality as the first event of the series, called “My First Trike” kicked off at 10 p.m. (UTC+3).
The first out of 12 tournaments featured a €10 buy-in and €1,000 in guaranteed prize pool giving players the chance to warm themselves up before the bigger events.
In his interview with Card Player last week, the TonyBet founder Tony G said he was expecting overlays and it seems he was right. At the time of writing there were 63 players registered for the first tournament of the series. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that a €10 buy-in event with €1,000 in guarantees needs at least 100 entrants to gather the prize pool.
We caught up with Tony for another quick chat today to ask how the series was going.
“It’s going really well actually”, Tony replied. “I honestly expected to have 100 players in the first event, but I’m also happy with what we have now. As I said before, this is our gift to the players. I invited everyone to play and a lot of people RSVP’d with a “YES”. I can already see these people in the players’ list and I’m sure more will come within the final minutes.”
When asked whether he’ll be playing the events himself, Tony pulled out some of that G character, that the poker community loves him for.
“Of course I will! Not playing this event is simply out of the question. Look, I’m a nice guy and all, but when I’m at the tables, I want to rip everyone’s guts out and eat them for lunch! That’s how devoted I am to this game. I’m ready to destroy everyone who makes the mistake of standing in my way. You want a piece of Tony G? Come and get me!”
The site has also announced it’s running both paid and free satellites to all OFC Poker Opener events allowing players to enter the tournaments for a lot less that the original buy-in or even for free.
For more details on this Open Face Chinese poker series go to the OFC Poker Opener page.
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