{"id":41810,"date":"2016-02-03T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=41810"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T12:22:37","slug":"prepare-for-the-four-tiered-5-million-guaranteed-powerfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/prepare-for-the-four-tiered-5-million-guaranteed-powerfest.html","title":{"rendered":"Prepare For the Four-Tiered $5 Million Guaranteed Powerfest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how awesome Pokerfest was? Well, it is being given a Power Series makeover to make it even bigger and better than before.<\/p>\n<p>Introducing the $5,000,000 guaranteed, that\u2019s correct, FIVE MILLION dollars guaranteed Powerfest, which is coming to partypoker from February 21 and stays on your screens until March 20. A staggering 98 <a title=\"Powerfest tournaments\" href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/en\/powerfest\">Powerfest tournaments<\/a> are scheduled during these four weeks, with each week focussing on each of our Power Series categories: Featherweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight, and High Roller.<\/p>\n<h2>2016 Powerfest Outline<\/h2>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Dates<\/th>\n<th>Week<\/th>\n<th>Buy-ins<\/th>\n<th>Main Event<\/th>\n<th>Weekly guarantee<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Feb 21-Feb 28<\/td>\n<td>Week 1 &#8211; Featherweight<\/td>\n<td>$5.50-$11<\/td>\n<td>Feb 28, $11 buy-in $50K GTD<\/td>\n<td>$350,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Feb 28-Mar 6<\/td>\n<td>Week 2 &#8211; Middleweight<\/td>\n<td>$22-$55<\/td>\n<td>Mar 6, $55 buy-in $100K GTD<\/td>\n<td>$650,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mar 6-Mar 13<\/td>\n<td>Week 3 &#8211; Heavyweight<\/td>\n<td>$109-$215<\/td>\n<td>Mar 13, $215 buy-in $500K GTD<\/td>\n<td>$1,805,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Mar 13-Mar 20<\/td>\n<td>Week 4 \u2013 High Roller<\/td>\n<td>$530-$5,200<\/td>\n<td>Mar 20, $1,050 buy-in $500K GTD<\/td>\n<td>$2,200,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The final schedule will be released to you soon, but trust us when we say it is going to be awesome. In addition to the massive $5 million worth of guaranteed prize pools, we are running a festival-long promotion called the Tournament of Champions.<\/p>\n<p>As the name suggest, this one-off tournament is only open to those of you who are crowned Powerfest champions, meaning entry is only open to those 98 players who win a Powerfest event. Each of the 98 players competing in the Tournament of Champions is guaranteed tournament tickets from $5.50 up to $530, with the overall winner banking a trip of a lifetime to Las Vegas!<\/p>\n<p>The Tournament of Champions winner collects a $5,000 package that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Five nights accommodation for two people<\/li>\n<li>An entry to the WPT500 at Aria<\/li>\n<li>$1,000 spending money<\/li>\n<li>Dinner with partypoker ambassador Mike Sexton<\/li>\n<li>A signed copy of Mike Sexton\u2019s new book, Life\u2019s a Gamble<\/li>\n<li>A pair of boxing gloves signed by four-time world champion boxer, Carl Froch<\/li>\n<li>Bragging rights among the partypoker community!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Speaking of the upcoming Powerfest, partypoker ambassador Mike Sexton said: \u201cI love that partypoker are introducing the Tournament of Champions element into the new Powerfest. This allows all the winners of each buy-in level to compete for their chance to win a memory of a lifetime. I look forward to hosting the winners in Vegas this summer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tom Waters, Group Head of partypoker, is also excited for the Powerfest: \u201cOur online poker festival, now named Powerfest, is an iconic partypoker event. With our best ever guarantee, players can turn as little as $5.50 into a share of $25,000 or $1,050 into a share of $500,000 in the final Main Event with $100,000 guaranteed for first place. This is poker for the people no matter the size of your bankroll.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Win Your Way to Powerfest Events<\/h3>\n<p>Now is the perfect time to get involved in our Tickets tournament and Ticket Brawls where you can win your way to Powerfest events for as little as $0.01. Imagine turning $0.01 into tens of thousands of dollars. Now stop imagining and start making it happen.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Keep up to date with all things partypoker!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Get all the latest partypoker updates from your favourite social media outlets. You can <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/partypoker\">Follow us on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/partypoker\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember how awesome Pokerfest was? Well, it is being given a Power Series makeover to make it even bigger and better than before. Introducing the $5,000,000 guaranteed, that\u2019s correct, FIVE MILLION dollars guaranteed Powerfest, which is coming to partypoker from February 21 and stays on your screens until March 20. A staggering 98 Powerfest tournaments<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/prepare-for-the-four-tiered-5-million-guaranteed-powerfest.html\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":41811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2182,300],"tags":[508,603,167,184,187,48,840,360,74,323],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41810"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76346,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41810\/revisions\/76346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41810"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=41810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}