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One of the great features of Betfair Poker is the variety of the poker tournaments they run. Players can play in a number of different formats of sit and go tournaments 24 hours a day and different Multi Table tournaments are on offer at various intervals during the day.
Sit and Go tournament buyins range from $3 up to $10,000 for the very high stakes players. The available formats for Betfair Poker sit and go's are as follow; standard, turbo, super turbo and deepstack. All of these can be played heads up, short handed or at Betfair's standard 9 seater tables. Thanks to the great custom developed software on offer at Betfair players can play multiple tables effortlessly, which is great for the early stages of tournaments which may be running slowly.
The selection of Multi table (scheduled) tournaments on offer at Betfair is great. Guaranteed tournaments run daily and on some occasions you may be lucky enough to take part in a tournament that has an Overlay. The largest weekly tournament is the $55,000 Guaranteed event which runs every Sunday and players can buy in directly to this exclusive event for $400.
As Betfair is the official sponsor of the WSOPE they run a massive amount of satellites to this event. Annette Obrestad shot to fame when she won the first ever WSOPE at only 18 years of age. Annette is now one of the "Betfair Pro's" and has her own bounty tournament which takes place each week. This tournament gives the player who knocks Annette out of the tournament a cash "bounty". Other Betfair Poker pro's include Sorel Mizzi who won over $1,000,000 from offline poke events in 2008. The Betfair team's newest addition is Peter Jepsen who made online poker history when he racked up winnings of nearly $500,000 in under a minute.
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