This Sunday at Harrah's, insideSTL.com will host a poker tournament that gets underway at noon.

The buy-in is $130.

This tournament is the second event of our insideSTL.com Poker League, in which players who finish in the top three of any of our five tournaments receive a free buy-in to our Championship Tournament on January 17th. All players who make it to the final table will receive a monster prize package including cash and/or buy-ins to April's World Series of Poker Circuit Event at Harrah's:

1st Place: 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit main event seat ($5,150) + $3,035

2nd Place: 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit main event seat ($5,150) + $1,842

3rd Place: 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $1,580 event seat + $1,300

4th Place: 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $1,080 event seat + $1,084

5th Place: 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $1,080 event seat + $867

6th 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $550 event seat + $758

7th 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $550 event seat + $650

8th 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $340 event seat + $542

9th 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $340 event seat + $433

10th 2010 Harrah’s St. Louis circuit event $340 event seat + $352

If a player attends all five tournaments, he or she automatically qualifies for the January 17th event. But, even if you weren't able to make the first one, you still can qualify by finishing in the top 3.

Assuming we have a full field of 100 players on Sunday, keeping in mind that part of the buy-in is going toward the Championship Tournament Prize Pool, here are the payouts for our tournament this weekend:

1st Place- $1400

2nd Place- $850

3rd Place- $600

4th Place- $500

5th Place- $400

6th Place- $350

7th Place- $300

8th Place- $250

9th Place- $200

10th Place- $150


If you'd like to play in this Sunday's tournament, email me at tmckernan@insidestl.com. Perhaps this weekend, I can actually not be the first person knocked out.