World Poker Tour’s newest product, ClubWPT Gold, is looking to make a splash this December with a record-setting $5 million freeroll and using the time-tested attraction of offering the opportunity of winning $1 million.
photo courtesy: Unsplash/Giorgio Trovato In April 1993, a then 23-year-old office supply salesman was plucked form the audience at halftime of a Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls game and given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If he could make a 75-foot basket from across the court he could win $1 million dollars. So, from the foul line at the opposite end of the court Don Calhoun took the ball, loaded up, and took his shot.
Nothing but net.
“The Calhoun Shot”, as it’s now known, was, essentially, a million-dollar freeroll. No harm if he missed, an “overnight millionaire” if he hit – and Don cashed in. CLUBWPT REVIEW
Win a Live WPT Championship Seat
No Purchase Necessary CLAIM OFFER This December, the World Poker Tour is bringing that same energy to the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas in the form of the largest freeroll in poker history – a $5,000,000 freeroll to kick-off and help promote WPT’s latest online poker offering: ClubWPT Gold .
Two thousand poker players are going to win a seat into this massive giveaway, and like Don Calhoun, one of them will walk away with a first-place prize of $1,000,000.
“These couples have all become instant millionaires on the richest game in television…”
That was the intro on the 1986 game show ‘The $1,000,000 Chance of a Lifetime’, the first game show credited with offering a million-dollar top prize. The little-known, short-lived show pitted couples against each other in a series of reverse Wheel of Fortune word puzzles where if they won three episodes in a row, including tougher bonus rounds, they took home $1 million. ‘Chance of a Lifetime’ didn’t last long, just two seasons where nine couples walked with a million.
More than a decade later, in August of 1999, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ aired in the United States every day for two weeks. The allure of regular people […]
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