Hollywood Poker Starts the 2010 Grand Series of Poker Live Tournament in Riga

Tuesday August 31, 2010

Hollywood Poker launches its newest live promotion, 2010 Grand Series of Poker Live, where it makes four exciting stops across Europe. The picturesque city of Riga plays host to the maiden voyage of the GSOP Live. Players from around the world descends upon the centre of the Baltic states via our $3,000 Main Event Packages all-inclusive of Main Event buy-in worth $1,600, Reval Elizabete hotel accommodations worth $500, travel and spending money worth $700, $200 hospitality allowance and Hollywood Poker clothing and merchandise.

Players can now work their way to the Grand Final in Seville via daily qualifiers on-going 24/7 at Hollywood Poker.com. They can either play in any Sit & Go or Scheduled Tournaments starting with buy-ins as low as $1+0.20. This easy step can give them entry to GSOP Live in Riga online satellites, which will start on August 12th at 2PM EDT/6PM UTC/GMT and run every Thursday and Sunday until September 26th, 2010. 50 Main Event Packages to the live event in Riga are guaranteed up for grabs, with 150 Main Event Packages more to send players to the next three European stops: Malta, Budapest, and Seville.

Live event winners will pad their bankrolls with prize-money and fly to Seville, Spain with a main event buy-in to the GSOP Live Grand Final. To add excitement to the entire GSOP Live tournament, there will be a leaderboard for all live events, such as in Riga, Malta, and Budapest and winner of which will also win a $5,000 Main Event Package to Seville.

"This is the first GSOP live event tour and it will surely be even bigger and stronger than the past successful GSOP online events," said Carlo B., Hollywood Poker Marketing Manager. "We have come up with tons of ways for players to have fun, earn loads of money, and enter the GSOP Live Grand Final in Seville."