On June 9 bwin Poker launched a promotion that will run through July 11 called the World Cup $1,000,000 Challenge.
To participate in the bwin Poker World Cup Million Dollar Challenge, you simply need to acquire betting tokens during the promotional period and then use those tokens to accurately guess the results of the various matches in the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg South Africa, which just started on Friday, June 11 and runs through Sunday, July 11.
Each betting token qualifies a player to compete in a single One Hand Heads-Up Sit & Go tournament. For each match of the 2010 World Cup, three such Sit & Gos will be held, one for each team competing (which represents that team winning the given) and a third representing a tie.
A bwin Poker player places their bet by using the token to enter the respective One Hand Heads-Up Sit & Go representing their bet. Prizes are awarded based on a pair of factors, namely: whether the player entered the right or wrong Sit & Go, and whether the player won or lost the Sit & Go they did enter. The more matches the player accurately predicts the results of, the more money from the prize pool they are eligible to split with the other players who achieved the same accomplishment.
The qualifying period to earn a betting token toward the bwin Poker Million Dollar World Cup Challenge is two days (48 hours) prior to the start of the game they wish to bet on.
So far in the opening weekend of the 2010 World Cup, Ghana beat Serbia, Slovenia beat Algeria, and the U.S. and England tied. That gives Serbia and Ghana the lead with 3 points each and puts England and the U.S. in second with 1 point each.