London Live Sold Out!

With just one day to go, the Black Belt London Live is now officially sold out. Registration for the event closed at 12pm earlier today, at which time the maximum of 300 players had been reached with 150 participating in each starting day.

Although James Akenhead, Praz Bansi, Marty Smyth and Julian Thew registered a while ago, this week has seen yet more sponsored pros confirmed with Dave Colclough, Laurence Houghton, Liam Flood and recent EPT Deauville winner Jake Cody stumping up the $200+20 buy-in fee.

As previously reported, eight pros will also have bounties on their head with the assassins receiving a signed photo and Black Belt Poker belt. The bounties are as follows:

Marty Smyth
Jesse May
Praz Bansi
Julian Thew
James Akenhead
Dave Colclough
Neil Channing
Nik Persaud

If you like your chances, or fancy a flutter on one of the participants, then Boylesports.com have opened a book up on the event with James Akenhead the tournament favourite at 33/1. To place a bet, simply visit Boylesports.com and select the ‘Poker’ in the left-hand menu.

The London Live is set to become one of the UK’s best value tournaments to date. As well as $500 last-longers for Orange Belts, Purple Belts (and above) will receive $15,000 added to first prize, and if a Green Belt (or above) takes the title, they will earn an additional $25,000, thus making first prize a spectacular $40,000!

The full payout structure is as follows:

1 $15,000
2 $10,000
3 $6,000
4 $4,500
5 $3,500
6 $2,500
7 $2,000
8 $1,500
9 $1,000
10 $700
11 - 19 $500
20 - 30 $350
31 - 36 $300
37 - 43 $250
44 - 50 $200

The tournament is also one of the best structured tournaments around relative to the buy-in, with players receiving 20,000 starting stacks and a 45 minute clock. For full details of both the blind structure, please visit our ‘Promotions’ page.

The London Live is expected to be a fun-filled event, and even more so with the presence of the ever-popular AWOP (A World of Poker) blogging team who will be supplying live coverage of the event through their forum updates and the innovative nuts.tv. Viewers will also be able to access live streaming from the Black Belt Poker homepage.

Day 1A kicks off tomorrow at 12pm. Black Belt Poker would like to take this opportunity to thank those who have both supported the event and anyone who has utilised the site since we first launched in April. We wish you the very best of luck in the 2010 Black Belt London Live.