From March 4th through 25th, 2012, Lock Poker will be holding The Poker Maximus with a guaranteed prize pool of more than $1.5 million.
The Poker Maximus schedule features an $85,000 Guaranteed High Roller Main Event with a $215 buy-in, a $100,000 guaranteed Deepstack Main Event with a $530 buy-in, and a $200,000+ Guaranteed Main Event with a $109 buy-in and at least $50k going to the winner. Lock Poker will also hold a Tournament Champions open exclusively to all winners of Poker Maximus events. And there’ll even be a Player’s Choice tournament in which the players themselves will decide the structure.
Buy-ins for the Poker Maximus range from $1.10 to $530 with more than $25k added in bonus prizes for players who either play in the Tournament of Champions or finish in the top 10 on the Poker Maximus leaderboard.
In all, Lock Poker will be hosting 70 events in this year’s Poker Maximus. In addition to a Tournament of Champions entry and their prize and bonus money, each event’s winner will also recieve a Poker Maximus Event Winner accolade for use with their Lock Poker player avatar.
Lock Poker will also be holding satellites awarding free seats in the various Poker Maximus events. These Satellites take place daily, and some are hourly, for buy-ins of $0.55 to $60. There are also ongoing SNG satellites with buy-ins of $1.91 to $73.30. Different satellites award seats of different cash values that can be used to buy into any Poker Maximus event with that buy-in.