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The $200,000 Slots Challenge Reaches Semi Finals

By: Rick Balding, Monday June 15th 2009
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In the first week of May the $200,000 Slots Challenge promotion was launched at some of the Fortune Lounge online casinos. Since then it had paid out $90,000 in casino credits to the winners of the preliminary levels and the quarter finals. $110,000 will be paid out in the semi finals and the finals. Several participants have already qualified for the semi finals through the earlier rounds. Those who have not qualified need not worry. They can pay the $100 buy in and take part in the semi finals.

The two semi finals will be held between the June 16 and June 21. The online slot game that has been designated for this event is the popular Microgaming slot Hitman. Players will be allowed to rebuy on a payment of $50. A guaranteed prize pool of $15,000 in casino credits has been set up for each of the semi finals. In addition the top 200 players will get free entry into the finals. The Grand Final will be held between June 23 and June 28. Players can directly enter the finals by paying the buy in of $500. The finals will be a one go event without any rebuys. The prize pool for the finals is $80,000 in cash out of which $50,000 will go to the winner. The balance $30,000 will be split between the next 24 places on the Grand Final tournament leader board. For players wagering in Euros, British Pounds, or Canadian Dollars the prizes will be converted to the equivalent amount in those currencies. The Grand Final will be played on the most popular Microgaming slot Tomb Raider.

Hitman and Tomb Raider are both branded online slots released by Microgaming. Both games have been developed under license from Eidos Interactive, who has produced these games for the video games market. Tomb Raider was the online gaming industry’s first branded slot game, released in 2004. It is based on the sexy female adventuress Lara Croft and replicates the action of the Eidos video game. Hitman was released in 2006. It features Agent 47 the ruthless assassin. No one can stop him from getting the job done. Hitman is a feature packed online slot game that has an expanding wild symbol, a free spins bonus round and two bonus games on the second screen.

The 200,000 Slots Challenge is exclusively open to Real Account holders registered at 7 Sultans, Royal Vegas, Platinum Play and Vegas Palms online casinos. The participants are additionally required to make a purchase at the online casino from which they have entered the promotion. All the four online casinos named above are leading brands of the Fortune Lounge Group. They are all powered by software from Microgaming and licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission.

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Comment by: bentobox On: June 16, 2009
Yeah these Microgaming slots tournaments rock I don't know much about those being offered at US online casinos but I definitely know that these tournaments at some of the Micro casinos that I play at fill up fast!
Comment by: phizzle On: June 16, 2009
The tournaments being offered by some of the Microgaming casinos are definitely in line with that of what many of the US facing online casinos are offering. I guess it goes to show that there's quite a large base of European and non US users that can offset the risk for the casino to support such large prizes. Essentially I think that they must have decent player volume to build these kinds of prizes.
Comment by: Brady On: June 15, 2009
I'm not familiar with this tournament as I was never a part of it nor entered into playing, however it's obvious that when slots tournaments are getting well into the few 100K range that they're huge hits at online casinos. I've only ever played in a few tournaments myself but now that I see that MGS casinos are offering tournaments on Hitman and TombRaider which are two of my favorite games tat Microgaming online casinos I'll certainly have to give it a whirl.

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