Blue Square proudly presents a selection of events combined with the Olympics for you to triple jump your way through.
Synchronised Winnings
Running throughout the Olympics (8th – 24th August), Blue Square is challenging the pace of your poker skills by offering prizes for the most wins on 10 seat Single Table Tournaments (STT’s) within an hourly period.
Prizes as follows:
- Gold – Winner of the most STT’s in an hour wins a GUKPT seat (£1000+£60)
- Silver – Runner up will receive GUKPT side event seat (£300+£30)
- Bronze – Third receives a GUKPT sat token ($250+$20)
The leaders will be posted on the website and regularly updated.
Terms and Conditions:
- Eligible claims must be for at least 3 or more 10 seat STT wins with a buy in of $1 or greater.
- Players who have won the requisite amount of STT’s will need to write to the Blue Square Poker support team at support@bluesqpoker.com for verification, providing details and dates of the tournaments, within 24 hours of the final winning tournament.
- Hourly periods fall from 1-2pm, 2-3pm etc. For a winning game to count, it must start within the same hour as all other eligible winning games. For example, a game started at 13:55 and won at 14:30 counts towards the 1-2pm period.
-For the purposes of this competition, the STT start times are counted rather than the registration times.
- In the event of a tie, the player who has accomplished the most wins in the shortest period of time (between the start times of the first and last wins in the sequence) will be declared the winner. Subsequent places will also be decided on this basis.
- Medalists will be awarded within 48 hours of the close of the close of the competition.
PoKOthon
Throughout the Olympics, Blue Square will test your endurance in a poKOthon to gain KO points. If you can break through the points barriers, you will gain entry to some exclusive freerolls without the loss of any of your KO points gained.
Points breakdown:
Bronze Freeroll: $500 freeroll if you accumulate 1000 KO points
Silver Freeroll: $1000 freeroll if you accumulate 2000 KO points
Gold Freeroll: $2620 freeroll if you accumulate 5000 KO points
Terms and Conditions:
- The accrual of points will be measured from midnight 8th August (BST) to 11.59pm on the 24th August. Players will not need to provide any correspondence in order to be entered. Blue Square will determine the eligible players and enter them accordingly.
- The freeroll will be held as follows: Bronze on Friday 29th August, Silver on Saturday 30th August and Gold on Sunday 31st August. Registration to all events will be available on the morning of Friday 29th August
Going for Gold
During the final week of the Olympics, Blue Square will be cheering on the GB Olympian hopefuls and celebrating any victories in Beijing with you! In a series of special $10+$1 freezeout tournaments, Blue Square will be adding a bonus to the 1st 50 places with either a bronze, silver or gold token, depending on the success of the athletes chosen going for gold!
- Bronze Medal = $5+$0.50 GUKPT token
- Silver Medal = $10+$1 GUKPT token
- Gold Medal = $25+$2.50 GUKPT token
Monday 18th August: Madison 50km Men (takes place 19th)
Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish pair up with a great chance of becoming Olympic Champions! Our $10+$1 freezeout will most likely be providing the top 50 finishers with a $25+$5 GUKPT token for their achievement!
Tuesday 19th August: Mens Triple Jump (qualifiers 18th, final 21st)
Phillips Idowu has posted the longest hop, skip and jump this year and could be on his way to Olympic Gold!
Wednesday 20th August: Modern Pentathlon (takes place 21st and 22nd)
Heather Fell and Katy Livingston will compete for GB in an event which has been dominated by British Pentathletes and could both be medalists at the Olympics!
Thursday 21st August: Mens 10m Platform Diving (takes place 22nd and final 23rd)
Tom Daley may not have done his GCSE’s yet, but he is already European Champion and is looking to add to his gold medal collection this summer!
Friday 22nd August: Women’s 4 x 400m Relay
With two runners aiming for medals in the individual event, the 4 x 400m squad has strength in numbers and will be making strides to help your token tally.
Terms and Conditions:
All tokens will be added within 72 hours of the tournament ending. If more than one GB competitor finishes in the Medal places, the highest placed athlete will be the token awarded. Tokens will be provided according to the results at the Olympics. Any subsequent disqualification which affects the results will not change the results and therefore the token awarded for the purposes of the competition.
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