Poker Dome Challenge Gameplay in the Poker Dome Also known as MANSIONPoker Poker Dome Challenge Country of origin United States 💶 No. of seasons 1 No. of episodes 43 Production Running time 2 hours Original release Network Fox Sports Net
The series 💶 consisted of single table tournaments of six players each. Five of the six competitors qualified through daily freeroll tournaments held 💶 at mansionpoker. Another competitor came from the National Pub Poker League, an amateur poker league that partnered with MansionPoker and 💶 qualified its nightly bar tournament winners into a private weekly freeroll.[1][2] Winners of the online qualifiers were flown all expenses 💶 paid to Las Vegas, Nevada and receivedR$500 in casino chips and other amenities.
Each preliminary winner pocketedR$25,000 in cash and advanced 💶 to the semi-finals. After each set of six preliminary tournaments, a semi-final single table tournament was played among the six 💶 winners, with the winner of that table takingR$50,000 and advancing to the final table. After the six semi-final matches were 💶 played, the finalists played one more single table tournament for theR$1,000,000 winner-take-all grand prize. Each of the other finalists won 💶 a prize package from Mansion Poker worthR$13,000.
Tournaments were played in front of a live audience in a structure called The 💶 Poker Dome. The audience couldn't be seen or heard by the players and players were screened before entering the Dome 💶 to ensure they were unable to communicate with anyone outside the Dome. The high tech table featured an LED display 💶 for the dealer button, hole card cameras, automatic card reading technology (described on-screen as "computer chips," possibly passive RFID tags) 💶 and built in LED hand timers. Two dealers worked the tournaments to maintain the fast pace, and players were attached 💶 to heart monitors. Players' hole cards and heart rates were displayed for the live audience and in particularly stressful situations 💶 like all in bets, heart rates were displayed to the home audience.
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