Full Tilt Poker To Run Las Vegas Tourney
Published: Thursday, December 15, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
FULL TILT POKER TO RUN $500 000 LAS VEGAS TOURNAMENT
100 of the best poker players to battle for the top money
Get ready to rumble with the first Full Tilt Poker Global Poker Challenge. On December 15th at the Palms Hotel in Las Vegas, the best poker players in America are scheduled to team up to take on the best poker players around the globe.
Partnering with UK producer Barry Hearn and Matchroom Sports, Full Tilt Poker will pull out all of the stops for this international tour de force of poker. With a $5 000 buy-in double shoot out, 100 poker players, including 10 online entrants will battle for the title of Global Poker Champion in the $500,000 purse event.
Full Tilt Poker has an impressive record of televised poker spectaculars, most recently in Monte Carlo where Phil Ivey took the winner's crown.
"The Global Poker Challenge continues our commitment to developing and supporting exciting televised poker events," said Ray Bitar, CEO of Tiltware, LLC. "We are very pleased to sponsor this unique poker tournament where poker professionals and amateurs will compete against one another - and an opposing team - to see where the best poker players in the world really are."
The Global Poker Challenge will be seen on FSN starting in January 2006 in the U.S., and an additional 100 million households throughout the world on various broadcasters.
