Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham has hosted live tournaments with some of the biggest turnouts in history. The casino attracted an impressive 4,932 players for its Grand Prix in 2013, for example. It appears DTD is about to smash this figure by teaming up with PartyPokerfor a $120 buy-in tournament featuring a huge $1 million guarantee. It’s called the Grand Prix Million and runs from May 15 to 25.

To put how big this tournament is into perspective, DTD and PartyPoker will need to attract 10,000 entrants in order to meet the $1 million guarantee, or more than double the largest field ever attracted by DTD in the past.

PartyPoker and DTD recently engaged in a multi-year marketing partnership where PartyPoker will be hosting DTD satellites for its live events in its poker client and DTD will be splashing its poker room with PartyPoker branding.

This tournament takes the agreement one step further since part of the tournament will actually take place in the PartyPoker client. The tournament will feature 18 opening days, nine of them to be played online at PartyPoker and another nine to be played live at DTD. Players who advance to Day 2, regardless of whether it was online or live, will face off on May 24 before the field is whittled down further for the final day on May 25.

This author can’t think of another event that has ever had this type of structure. The World Series of Poker for the first time in history is holding an online bracelet event this year, but even this event does not combine online and live poker into one giant event.

DTD owner Rob Yong is excited about potentially creating poker history with this combined online and live tournament. “This is a huge target, but I believe it is possible,” said Yong when asked about the undertaking. “I remember the first ever Grand Prix in September 2010 with a £50 buy-in and a £40,000 guarantee requiring 800 entrants. We broke the UK record and it was one of our proudest moments. So, five years later, to achieve 10,000 entries and a $1 million prize pool would be simply amazing.”

PartyPoker is equally excited about the Grand Prix Million and is creating a big incentive for players to qualify in online. The first 1,000 players who qualify for this tournament through PartyPoker will receive a Golden Chip, which will entitle any player who reaches the final table an extra $25,000 in addition to their share of the at least $1 million prize pool.

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