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Titan Poker names first tournament player

Posted By Jeremy Hopkins | Friday, September 22, 2006 - 10:58
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(PRESS RELEASE) - Titan Poker, one of the fastest growing online poker rooms, announced that Hou Kam from North Ryde, Australia, is the first player to have qualified for The Tournament Titan. The Tournament Titan is a Sit & Go tournament with a massive $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool and is the richest Sit & Go tournament ever played online. Only 20 players will qualify for this exciting tournament, making each seat worth an impressive $50,000.

With a Million Dollars on the line, The Tournament Titan competition is drawing some of the best tournament players online. Titan Poker has launched this competition in order to find the world's best and most consistent poker tournament player. To qualify for The Tournament Titan, Titan Poker players will have to make the final table three times in a row at any of the popular poker room's regularly scheduled participating tournaments. The first twenty players to achieve this feat will earn a seat in The Tournament Titan, guaranteeing themselves a share of the $1,000,000 in prizes.

Hou Kam (nickname: "asdfsmh") secured his seat at The Tournament Titan by finishing at the final table consecutively at Titan Poker's $2,000 Guaranteed Prize Freezeout, $3,000 Guaranteed Prize Freezeout, and $3,500 Guaranteed Prize tournaments over a period of two days. With an investment of only $22, the total buy-ins to these three tournaments, Hou Kam won a seat to the Million Dollar Sit & Go. Hou Kam's $22 could end up being worth $200,000.

"After I made the final three in a row, I couldn't sleep at night," Hou Kam said of his achievement. "I don't need to tell you how great I feel. It's going to be the largest tournament I've ever played in."

The list of participating tournaments and additional details about The Tournament Titan have been posted on the Titan Poker website.

The Tournament Titan is just the latest of a long string of innovative promotions run by Titan Poker. Titan Poker's jackpot sit 'n' go tournaments are extremely popular and attract veteran and novice poker players alike. If a player succeeds in winning the appropriate number of consecutive tournaments, he is entitled to receive a huge jackpot prize in addition to the regular tournament payout. Titan Poker already paid out more than $1.5 million in jackpot prizes to its various winners. In addition, Titan Poker regularly sends qualifying players to land-based tournaments, including the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.


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