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.[1]

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 Soubra
11 July 26, 2008 Brick Yard BBQ Gary Biggar
12 December 6, 2008 Brick Yard BBQ John Lawson
13 April 4, 2009 Brick Yard BBQ Brian Hurley
14 August 8, 2009 Norma Jeane's Chris Palmer
15 November 28, 2009 Norma Jeane's Jenna Mischuk
16 February 13, 2010 Norma Jeane's Dwayne Collins
17 May 28, 2010 Norma Jeane's Chris Jensen
18 August 28, 2010 Norma Jeane's Jason Acton
19 January 15, 2011 Norma Jeane's Shaun Goddard
20 May 14, 2011 Norma Jeane's Dwayne Collins
21 September 21, 2011 Norma Jeane's Charlene Butler
22 January 14, 2012 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Scott Harris
23 May 12, 2012 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Jeff Vandenberg
24 September 15, 2012 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Charles Chan
25 January 12, 2013 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Scott Harris
26 May 11, 2013 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Morris Delorme
27 September 14, 2013 Fox & Fiddle Dundas Johnny Hlozan

References

  1. ↑ "Daniel Negreanu's Protégé 2 - Full Contact Poker". Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. Retrieved 2007-02-17.
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