Dear Players,

Upper Deck Entertainment is happy to announce a new, better prize structure for $10K Championships, starting at this weekend’s $10K Championship at Wizard World Chicago.

This new prize structure is based on player feedback. In addition to increasing prizes across the board, we have also extended prizes down to the 24th place for all tournaments to better synchronize the prize payout with our Sealed Pack tournament format. You can find the new prize structure posted on our website at this link.

The new prize structure will appeal to both professional and casual players in a number of ways. Professional players will enjoy more balanced third- and fourth-place prize payouts, as well as a payout boost for most of the Top 8. We feel that this change will give more professional players an incentive to travel to $10,000 Championships. Casual players weren’t forgotten in this new payout structure, either. In addition to extending the cash payouts down to 24th place and generally upping most individual payouts, we have introduced a new prize payout for casual players, called the Amateur Prize.

Amateur Prizes of $250 will be given out to the top four players with nine or fewer lifetime Pro Circuit Credits. These prizes are awarded to the top four amateurs, in addition to any other prizes they may receive in the tournament. To distribute the amateur prizes fairly, we will not exclude players that have received but not yet used a ratings invite for the Pro Circuit.

As always, we would like to thank our entire player base for making this game a leader in the industry! We hope to see you at the $10K Championship this weekend at Wizard World Chicago.

Thank you,

Premier Events Team

Upper Deck Entertainment