The Red Hot Poker Tour hosts poker tournaments with no entry fees in Canadian bars and pubs. Every night of the week, players can compete to accumulate points which they use to qualify for the end-of-season Tournament of Champions. Past champions have been rewarded with great prizes including trips to Las Vegas, buy-ins to the World Series of Poker, and seats at Daniel Negreanu's Protégé final table.
At the completion of its sixth season, the Tour expanded outside of Ontario for the first time, holding qualifying tournaments in British Columbia. With the inclusion of online-based Red Club Room tournaments, players are now able to compete via the internet through events hosted on PartyPoker.
The Season 7 Tournament of Champions winner was the first champion to be rewarded with a buy-in to a $10,000 tournament: a seat at the Main Event of the World Series of Poker. The Season 8 prize was a buy-in to the $10,000 Main Event at the second annual World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship at Fallsview Casino. For Season 10, the winner was given a choice of one of three World Poker Tour tournaments, and wound up playing at the LA Poker Classic.
To start Season 11, Red Hot announced they would be sponsored by the World Poker Tour, and all of its online games would be played at WorldPokerTour.com.
From Season 12 onwards, the Red Hot Poker Tour has featured its sponsor: PartyPoker. With PartyPoker's support, Red Hot has helped send numerous players to the World Series of Poker.
Game play Tournaments are played at 8-player tables. Each player is given 8000 chips to start: 12 red chips (worth 25 each), 7 blues (worth 100 each), 6 greens (worth 500 each). and 4 black chips (worth 1000 each). Yellow chips (worth 5000), and purple/pink chips (worth 10,000) are used later in the tournament.
Blinds start at 25-50 and increase in value every 20 minutes.
Points Players receive 25 points for each tournament that they participate in. Additionally, all players who make the final table receive bonus points depending on their finish position:
1st place: 1000
2nd place: 700
3rd place: 500
4th place: 400
5th place: 300
6th place: 200
7th place: 125
8th place: 75
Tournament of Champions Winners
Season Date Location Champion 1 April 2, 2005 Peel Pub Jim Graham 2 June 22, 2005 Peel Pub Leslie Kassa 3 December 11, 2005 Bert & Ernie's Adam Domenchini 4 April 1, 2006 Elephant & Castle Jimmy Herrera 5 July 15, 2006 Molly Bloom's Sharmarke Osman 6 November 25, 2006 Keating Channel Pub Richard Hebert 7 March 31, 2007 Montana's James Reinhart 8 July 21, 2007 Montana's Fred Tierney 9 December 1, 2007 Montana's Jennifer Garlicki 10 March 29, 2008 Brick Yard BBQ Osman Soubra11 July 26, 2008 Brick Yard BBQ Gary Biggar12 December 6, 2008 Brick Yard BBQ John Lawson13 April 4, 2009 Brick Yard BBQ Brian Hurley14 August 8, 2009 Norma Jeane's Chris Palmer15 November 28, 2009 Norma Jeane's Jenna Mischuk16 February 13, 2010 Norma Jeane's Dwayne Collins17 May 28, 2010 Norma Jeane's Chris Jensen18 August 28, 2010 Norma Jeane's Jason Acton19 January 15, 2011 Norma Jeane's Shaun Goddard20 May 14, 2011 Norma Jeane's Dwayne Collins21 September 21, 2011 Norma Jeane's Charlene Butler22 January 14, 2012 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Scott Harris23 May 12, 2012 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Jeff Vandenberg24 September 15, 2012 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Charles Chan25 January 12, 2013 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Scott Harris26 May 11, 2013 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Morris Delorme27 September 14, 2013 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Johnny Hlozan
References
External links Official site