Sometimes, online promotions are too good to only run once. Such is the case with Full Tilt Poker’s Sit & Go Madness, which is back once again this weekend. This time, however, it has been upgraded to Super Sit & Go Madness. The Madness will begin at 4:00pm ET on Friday, November 5th and end at 4:00pm ET on Sunday, November 7th. During the 48 hours, Sit & Go players will be competing not just for standard prize money, but also for a share of more than $150,000 in cash and prizes.
Aside from the “Super” aspect of Sit & Go Madness and the extra $25,000 in cash and prizes, the promotion will work basically the same way it has in past cycles. Special Madness tournaments will be highlighted in green in the lobby and will be the only ones that qualify for the promotion. The buy-ins for the tournaments will fall into four distinct groups:
Group A: $1 to $2
Group B: $5 to $11
Group C: $20 to $33
Group D: $50 to $110
Furthermore, the promotional period will be split into 24 two-hour blocks, each of which has its own points leaderboard. Players will earn points based on tournament finishes during each block towards the leaderboard standings for whichever group(s) their buy-ins fall into. For example, if a player competes in only $5 Sit & Gos during the first two hours and earns 100 points, then he will have 100 points on the Group B leaderboard for the first block of the promotion. If he instead earns 60 of those points in $5 tournaments and 40 points in $2 tournaments, then he would have 40 points on the Group A leaderboard and 60 points on the Group B leaderboard.
At the end of each block’s two hours, the top seven players on the four leaderboards will win cash prizes as follows:
Group A: $20, $12.50, $7.50, $5, $2.50, $1.50, $1
Group B: $100, $60, $40, $25, $12.50, $7.50, $5
Group C: $200, $125, $75, $50, $25, $15, $10
Group D: $500, $300, $200, $125, $60, $40, $25
Then there are the overall leaderboards. Every player’s best score in a single two-hour block will qualify for the overall leaderboard in each buy-in group. At the end of the 48 hours, the top two players on each overall leaderboard will meet on Full Tilt Poker on Saturday, November 13th in an eight-handed $5,000 Sit & Go Freeroll, with the top three getting paid. To clarify, if a player earns scores of 100, 140, and 180 in three separate Group C two-hour blocks, then he will post a score of 180, the highest of the three, on the overall Group C leaderboard.
There are other ways to win cash and prizes as well. Anyone who wins three Madness Sit & Gos (up from two in previous runnings of the promotion) will receive a seat in the $75,000 Madness Freeroll to be played on November 13th. Additionally, every Sit & Go in the money finish will earn players a raffle ticket for one of over 1,000 prizes. The top prize is a Full Tilt Poker Deluxe Home Game Package, consisting of a deluxe poker table, 500-piece chipset, and two leather poker deck cases. Other prizes include Steps tickets and Full Tilt Poker apparel.
New this go-around are Super Turbo Sit & Gos. These ultra-fast tournaments start players with just 10 big blinds and levels increase every three minutes. Because their duration is so short, players will only receive half of the leaderboard points.
Big deal… pokerstars already does this on a continuous basis with battle of the planets.