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title: "Go Global with 888.com's $3 Million Guaranteed World Poker Crown Tournament"
url: https://tourneyblog.com/category/Land-Tournaments/Go-Global-with-888-coms-3-Million-Guaranteed-World-Poker-Crown-Tournament/
description: "On February 21, 2008, 888.com released information about their new global tournament offering – the World Poker Crown. The tournament began qualifiers on February 20th.."
published: 2008-02-26
updated: 2008-02-26
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# Go Global with 888.com's $3 Million Guaranteed World Poker Crown Tournament

Published 2008-02-26

On February 21, 2008, 888.com released information about their new global tournament offering – the World Poker Crown. The tournament began qualifiers on February 20th. These will continue through the end of April. The online final runs on April 26th and features a $1,050 buy-in.

Eight qualifiers from this event will them move on to the live action grand finale in Barcelona, Spain. Each will be put up in a 16th century castle in the beautiful medieval Catalan town of Peralada. They will stay there from May 6-10, 2008 and will get the opportunity to play in the $3,000,000 Guaranteed World Poker Crown Tournament.

The first place finisher is expected to take home one-third of that prize pool for a cool million dollar payday.

To learn more about the World Poker Crown, we suggest you head on over to 888.com toot sweet!