In addition to the millions in instant cash prizes that you’ll find in the game, there are thousands of high quality, World Poker Tour™ merchandise prize packs to be awarded to lucky players in the BONUS TOURNAMENT game. Claiming one of the merchandise packs is the first step toward qualifying as a tournament participant. Click here for information about how to claim a merchandise pack won instantly on a $10,000,000 Hold ‘Em Poker® instant ticket.

Every time a player wins and claims one of the Hold ‘Em Poker® merchandise prize packs, the winner’s name goes into a drawing to select the tournament participants. For every 123 prize pack winners there will be one drawing to select one participant in the Bonus Tournament. If you don’t win, try again! In all, there will be 560 Mass Lottery players selected for the tournament through this series of special drawings.

Being selected as one of the 560 BONUS TOURNAMENT participants gets you an invitation to attend the tournament drawing event – sure to be one of the most exciting events in the history of the Mass Lottery! The drawing will simulate an actual Hold ‘Em Poker® tournament, except in this Mass Lottery version, NO POKER SKILL IS NECESSARY. Cards will be randomly assigned to the participants and the outcome of every hand of poker will be determined by random drawing.

When all 560 participants have been selected, the date, time and location of the $10,000,000 Hold ‘Em Poker® Bonus Tournament event will be announced, and each participant will receive a personal invitation to attend.

There will be three elimination rounds to determine the four participants who will advance to the Championship Round. As the tournament plays out, EVERY PARTICIPANT WILL WALK AWAY A CASH WINNER! But in the end, there will be just one player left – The Hold ‘Em Poker® Bonus Tournament Champion – who will collect the $10 Million GRAND PRIZE!

Players are divided into 80 groups of seven. Each player starts with two cards. Every player has a chance to win the round by making the best five-card poker hand in their group, to be determined by combining their two cards with the five “Community Cards” that will be selected in the drawing.

The Round One Drawing commences with “The Flop”, three pre-determined “Community Cards” are revealed. Then comes “The Turn” as a fourth pre-determined Community Card is revealed. Finally, “The River” – the final Community Card is selected at random from a group of seven possible cards. Participants in each group then combine their two cards with the five Community Cards, and a Round Winner in each group is determined by which participant has the best five-card poker hand. Each Round One winner advances to Round Two, where they are guaranteed to win a cash prize of at least $10,000. Other participants are eliminated from the tournament but each collects the Round One Bonus Prize of $2,000.

ROUND ONE RESULTS
TOTAL ROUND ONE WINNERS ADVANCING TO ROUND TWO	80
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS WHO DO NOT ADVANCE TO ROUND TWO	480
CASH PRIZE FOR EACH PARTICIPANT WHO DOES NOT ADVANCE	$2,000
TOTAL ROUND ONE BONUS PRIZES AWARDED	$960,000

As Round Two begins, each player is once again given two cards. As in Round One, every remaining player has a chance to win the round by making the best five-card poker hand in their group, combining their cards with the five Community Cards.

The Round Two Drawing commences with “The Flop”, three pre-determined “Community Cards” are revealed. Then comes “The Turn” as a fourth pre-determined Community Card is revealed. Finally, “The River” – the final Community Card is selected at random from a group of five possible cards. Participants in each group then combine their two cards with the five Community Cards, and a Round Winner in each group is determined by which participant has the best five-card poker hand. Each Round Two winner advances to Round Three, with a guaranteed prize of at least $50,000. Other participants are eliminated from the tournament but each collects the Round Two Bonus Prize of $10,000.

The Round Two winners are divided into four groups for Round Three, with four players in each group.

Round Three begins as the other rounds have begun, with each player once again given two cards. Just like in the earlier rounds, every player has a chance to win the round by making the best five-card poker hand in their group, combining their cards with the five “Community Cards” that will be selected in the Round Three drawing.

The Round Three Drawing commences with “The Flop”, three pre-determined “Community Cards” are revealed. Then comes “The Turn” as a fourth pre-determined Community Card is revealed. Finally, “The River” – the final Community Card is selected at random from a group of four possible cards. Participants in each group then combine their two cards with the five Community Cards, and a Round Winner in each group is determined by which participant has the best five-card poker hand. Four Round Three winners, one from each group, advance to the Grand Prize Championship Round with a guaranteed prize of at least $1,000,000! Other participants are eliminated from the tournament but each collects the Round Three Bonus Prize of $50,000.

ROUND THREE RESULTS
TOTAL ROUND THREE WINNERS ADVANCING TO CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND	4
TOTAL PARTICIPANTS WHO DO NOT ADVANCE TO ROUND THREE	12
CASH PRIZE FOR EACH PARTICIPANT WHO DOES NOT ADVANCE	$50,000
TOTAL OF ROUND THREE BONUS PRIZES	$600,000
TOTAL BONUS PRIZES, ROUNDS ONE, TWO AND THREE	$2,200,000

Each of the four contenders has a chance to win the championship hand by making the best five-card poker hand.

Each player receives their two cards.

The Grand Prize Drawing commences with “The Flop”, three pre-determined “Community Cards” are revealed. Then comes “The Turn” as a fourth pre-determined Community Card is revealed. Finally, “The River” – the final Community Card is selected at random from a group of four possible cards. The contenders then combine their two cards with the five Community Cards, the Champion Grand Prize winner is determined by which participant has the best five-card poker hand.

The players combine their two cards with the set of five cards selected in the Grand Prize Drawing.

The results of each player’s best five-card poker hand are announced.

The player with the highest ranking five-card poker hand wins the $10,000,000 GRAND PRIZE and is declared The Mass Lottery Hold ‘Em Poker® Bonus Tournament Champion!

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND RESULTS
TOURNAMENT CHAMPION WINNER OF $10,000,000 GRAND PRIZE	1
TOURNAMENT RUNNER-UP WINNERS OF $1,000,000	3
TOTAL OF CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND PRIZES	$13,000,000
TOTAL TOURNAMENT BONUS WINNINGS – ALL 560 PARTICIPANTS	$15,200,000

NOTE: The $10,000,000 Tournament Grand Prize will be paid $500,000 a year for twenty years. The $1,000,000 Tournament Runner-Up Prizes will be paid $50,000 a year for 20 years.

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