King of the Ring

King of the Ring

First stage qualification is simple and takes place between May 1st and May 14th. All you need to do is rake as many hands as possible each day. Depending on the limits you play and how many raked hands you manage each day, you will earn a royalty status which then entitles you to play in the second stage knockout tournaments to win the cash prizes.

How Does it Work?

1. Choose Your Stake

There are three stakes levels that you can qualify via: Micro, Low or Mid-High stakes. You can qualify in one or more of these stakes levels if you wish.

2. What Rank Are You?

Your rank is determined by how many raked hands you play each day and for how many days you sustain this amount of raked hands. Every rank above Officer guarantees you a cash prize!

You can qualify in more than one stakes level; just ensure that you have at least played the minimum number of daily raked hands for each level.

Example:  Play 500 raked hands per day for 6 days to earn the “Earl” rank.

3. Prepare For Battle!

Once you have earned a rank, you are able to enter the corresponding King of the Ring tournament. The top third of players in the tournament will then progress to the next rank, where they will battle it out again to keep progressing one rank at a time until they are playing in the final Kings tournament.

Example: If you have earned the rank of Earl, you will battle the other Earls in a qualifier held on May 20th or 21st. You can choose to qualify through either an SNG (which begin on May 20th – May 21st) or one of the Scheduled Multi-Table Tournaments (MTTs) on May 21st (see table C below). 1 out of every 3 players in these SNG and MTT are promoted to Duke to battle for Prince and finally King!

4. Win Prize Money

As every rank from Earl upwards ensures you some prize money, try to keep on qualifying up the ranks to increase your winnings!

Every rank ascended will improve your chance of winning a seat at the King of the Ring Tournament and winning the biggest prize of them all!

Example: If you win at the Earl rank you will move up to battle as a Duke in the next event. By doing so, will guarantee you $20 - $250 in prizes! If you don’t make it to Duke you will still win $10 - $100 as a member of the Earl level:

5. King of The Ring!

Congratulations! You are now about to join the other Kings in a single battle to become the King of Kings and win the grand prize. By reaching this stage, you are guaranteed a minimum of $60 - $1,000 in prizes, but possibly much more!

* In the King stage each qualifying player contributes an amount of money to the prize pool as indicated in the table above. One third of that amount will be paid to the last paid place and the rest will be divided between the higher places.