Starting Sunday January 22nd at 3:00 pm (est) Global-Player and Texas Tournaments will start hosting satellite events for the Texas Tournaments August 12th, 2006 Blackjack cruise to the Bahamas.
If your not a member of Global-Player yet their site is: www.global-player.com Everybody is invited to come play and no one is barred from these tournaments. These are the only elimination style blackjack tournament offered online.
The entry fees will be $40 with $20 re-buys and all prizes will be paid in cash for those not able to go on the cruise may still play and win. The prize structure will remain the same as Global uses in their weekly tournaments.
The format will be the same, but the betting limits were changed from the normal amounts Global runs on their weekly tournaments. The format and betting limits will match the cruise tournaments used by Texas Tournaments.
Betting changes are as, $5 minimum to $200 maximum bet. Other rules such as: Surrender, DD after splits, Splits up to 3 times, Dealer stands on all 17, Button rotates from (dealers Left to Right) will all remain the same.
For more information on the cruise you can call Jim Thomas with Point Loma World Travel at 1-800-783-8646 or 619-421-3992 or go to www.blackjacktournaments.com and look in the fourm pages under cruise tournaments.
On our Oct. 31st Mexicain Riviera BJ cruise we gave away over $45,000 in cash prizes.