Merge Network Announces Poker Maxmius Online Tournament Series

Posted by Lasse Hamar 27/01/12

American online poker pros sad they are missing out on major series like the WCOOP, SCOOP, and the current TCOOP on PokerStars need not feel so left out anymore. Merge Network, which is still open to US players, unveiled plans for a new online tournament series, Poker Maximus, which will run across the Merge sites from March 4th-25th.

The three-week series will consist of more than 70 different Hold’em and Omaha tournaments with buy-ins as low as $1 and as high as $530. This is the first-ever tournament series for the Network, which includes sites like Lock Poker, Carbon Poker, RPM Poker, and Hero Poker to name a few.

The series includes over $1.5 million in guarantees, including a $100 buy-in Main Event with a $200,000 guarantee and a guaranteed $50,000 first place prize, a $530 Deep Stack Event with a $100,000 guarantee, and a Tournament of Champions event. Each Sunday of the series will feature an event with a $150,000 guarantee. There will even be a unique Players Choice event on March 20th, where players can decide what kind of game they want to play.

Poker Maximus will offer a selection of three tournaments a day and run a Player of the Series leaderboard with prizes for the top three finishers. The sites will be offering a number of satellites into the various events with buy-ins as low as $.55. The satellites include a range of Sit-N-Go and MTT events for all of the events, including the $530 Super Stack Main Event, which has $33 and $60 satellites running daily.

Several players from the Merge sites have already been Tweeting and taking to Facebook to spread the word about the new series. “This is a big step in the right direction that we’ve all been pushing for at Lock Poker,” says Team LockPRO ELITE member Matt Stout. “We’ve worked hard to build a solid MTT schedule on the site, and now it’s time to kick off our very first bit MTT series with a three-week schedule. I can’t wait.”