Festive tournemnts are a common thing when it comes to online poker rooms and casinos. In an attempt to drive customers to their sites, copanies are offering cash bonuses and prizes to intice punters to use their software. 
December is generally a good time of year casinos and sportsbooks alike with people having more time and little extra cash, companies look to cash in on this by offering new and innovative ideas, such as the Winter Skills Festival.The festival will come to a head on January 6th 2011 where the grand final will be played.
Throughout Christmas 2010 Williamhill.com are set to run a host of festive tournaments across a variety of games including poker, backgammon, dominoes, chess and gin rummy. William Hill have put up an added purse of £10,ooo towards the specially run 5 tournaments with the prize pool being split between each discipline.
The ‘Winter Skills Festival’, as it is being named by William Hill, looks like a solid attempt to gain punters from a diverse gaming background whilst also making it available to people with even the smallest bankrolls as buy ins will start from just £2.50 for a share of near £2,000 for most of the tournaments.
“We’re really excited about the Winter Skills Festival tournaments and the Skill Grandmaster Finals series,” said Tony Kenny, spokesperson for WilliamHill.com.
“There are some great prizes up for grabs but the bragging rights for being crowned Skill Grandmaster is something money cannot buy.”
