Brit Students Get The Poker Bug
Published: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
BRIT STUDENTS GET THE POKER BUG
Poker Room teams with universities in Student Poker Tour
British university students over the age of 18 years, many of whom are already skilled poker players, will have their own targeted competitive arena soon following Poker Room overtures to universities across Britain aimed at launching the first UK nationwide Student Poker Tour.
The country's biggest university towns will be playing host to PokerRoom.com this month as it seeks to discover the best student Texas Hold 'Em player. The tour began in Liverpool on 20 February and will encompass Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham and London, before terminating in Bristol on 3 March.
Thousands of students will play the first round of the tour at their local student hangout and pick up expert tips from PokerRoom.com; the online tournament will take place the following day, with the winner from each university proceeding to the final.
The top 10 online poker players will then meet at a final table on PokerRoom.com on 11 March to battle it out for the star prize, a brand new GBP 15,000 sports car.
PokerRoom.com's chief executive Patrick Selin says, "With the launch of the Student Poker Tour, we are taking the exciting world of poker directly to a growing audience and developing a relationship with a previously untapped market. We aim to show students that anybody can be a great Texas Hold 'Em player given the tools and the know-how."
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