Poker Dome Challenge Gameplay in the Poker Dome Also known as MANSIONPoker Poker Dome Challenge Country of origin United States ♠ No. of seasons 1 No. of episodes 43 Production Running time 2 hours Original release Network Fox Sports Net
The MANSIONPoker ♠ Poker Dome Challenge was a 43-week series of speed poker tournaments offering a grand prize of US$1,000,000. The tournament aired ♠ in the United States on Fox Sports Network from May 2006 to March 2007. The tournament featured a number of ♠ technological gimmicks in an effort to increase viewer interest and excitement. Commentating duties were shared by rotating hosts including Barry ♠ Tompkins, Jon Kelley, Michael Konik, Michael Gracz, Joel Meyers and Chris Rose with Leeann Tweeden serving as co-host/exit interviewer (occasionally ♠ covered by Nafeesa DeFlorias). Matt Savage was the tournament director.
The series consisted of single table tournaments of six players each. ♠ Five of the six competitors qualified through daily freeroll tournaments held at mansionpoker. Another competitor came from the National Pub ♠ Poker League, an amateur poker league that partnered with MansionPoker and qualified its nightly bar tournament winners into a private ♠ weekly freeroll.[1][2] Winners of the online qualifiers were flown all expenses paid to Las Vegas, Nevada and receivedR$500 in casino ♠ chips and other amenities.
Professional poker players Tony G, Dennis Waterman and Perry Friedman and reality television personality-turned poker pro Rob ♠ Mariano have appeared in the Dome. Nevada casino author Al W Moe appeared in the Dome and his wife, Shannon ♠ R Moe, was an alternate selection a month later.
Players started with 50,000 in tournament chips and play continued until one ♠ player had all 300,000. The tournament was single-elimination and only the winner of each table received prize money. Players had ♠ just 15 seconds to act on a hand before it was ruled dead. Each player was given one 30-second time ♠ extension that could be used at any time. When the table got to heads-up, each player received another 30-second time ♠ extension (although if a player hadn't previously used the extension he or she did not then have two). Betting was ♠ pot-limit pre-flop and no-limit post-flop until heads-up play, when it became all no-limit.