The first groupstage will consist of 4 weeks of 3 tournaments per week. It will start the 2nd of December at 20:00 CET. The tournaments will be held each sunday, wednesday and friday.

All of these tournaments will be held with a buy-in of 1€ and a fee of 10 cents. Points will be awarded to the top 10-15% approximately. In other words, people finishing "in the money" will receive points. 50 Points will be awarded to the winner and those points will decrease to about 2-4 to the last guy that finishes "in the money"(itm), depending on the amount of signups. The blinds will go up every 15 minutes. Do note that the money from the buy-in will not be put in the prizepool of the specific tournament, but it will all be put in the grand prizepool.

We will however have 3 prizes for each tournament. If you one of the these prizes, you wont be able to get the same prize again. The place below you will get that prize. We expect a big field to attend, so this isnt very likely to happen, but it very well could!

Depending on the amount of people signing up to the cup, a certain amount of them will continue into the next stage, the 2nd groupstage. The buy-in will remain roughly the same, it might go up to a maximum of €2. Tournaments will be ran just twice a week this time around, over a period of 3 or 4 weeks. Blindlevels will rise to 20 minutes. After this, our 20 finalists will be known!

The 20 finalists will be playing for the prizes in this tournament. 20 Players equals 2 tables of 10 players. Starting stack will increase as well the time of the blindlevels making for much more exciting play, full of possibilities!

There will be a great amount of prizes involved.
The first prize will be a ticket to an EPT event, including accommodation and travel money, totalling a networth of about 10.000 Euros.
That's just the first prize though, the other prizes depend on the amount of signups we get, but anyone who saw the prizes for the previously organised freerolls will know that neither ClanBase nor McPoker will leave the winners in the cold!

* You need to be a registered member of ClanBase to participate in these tournaments.
* You need to signup on the Cuppage to be eligible to participate. Signups will be open until the 30th of November.
* You need to have money in your McPoker account. (Read more below)
* You need to be at least 18 years of age.
* You need to use a ClanBase version of the McPoker client.
* You need to have your McPoker username entered as GUID in your ClanBase account.

So how do i sign up?

First, you need to download the McPoker software. This is a small program you have to install on your computer. Most of you will already have this because you played in the freerolls. If not, create an account and your good.

Many players who already had an account and participated in the freerolls have received 10€ from McPoker. Although some already lost it, we have stories of people making it into 576 euro!

But if you have lost it already, or didnt take part in the freerolls, you need to deposit some money! At this moment, McPoker only provides ways to deposit with a bankaccount or a creditcard, but soon online banks such as Neteller and Moneybookers will be added. Its pretty selfexplanatory how to actually deposit. The first round will have 12 tournaments with a combined buyin of €13,20. You decide if you want to participate in 1 or in all 12 of the tournaments. Each time you participate - you increase your chances of winning the prizes for the tournament as well as getting points for advancing to next group stage. €13,20 - Thats not much for 12 nights of great pokertournaments is it?