Poker Tour International Dates Announced

Published: Friday, December 31, 2004 Online-Casinos.com

POKER TOUR INTERNATIONAL DATES ANNOUNCED

Plenty of Caribbean fun and poker ahead

Poker Tour International (PTI), has announced the first quarter Texas Hold'em Poker tournaments for 2005.

Dates are as follows: February 7-13, 2005 at the Isle of Capri Casino, Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas; March 12-16, 2005 at Circa's Hispanola Resort and Casino, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and April 13-18, 2005 aboard the Norwegian Cruise ship Caribbean Spirit.

Rates for the trips, including buy-ins, travel, and accommodations, run around $2,999 and re-buys are available at $500.

Potential winnings include $250,000-$500,000 (depending on the number of participants), seats to other PTI tournaments, and seats to the Semi Annual Multi Million Dollar Classic Finals.

This year's PTI production team includes pro players Lee Watkinson, who has won $1,453,573 from final tables this year alone and is rated #1 in the World by Bluff Magazine; Ted Lawson, winner of this year's Las Vegas Omaha World Poker Series; "Unabomber" Phil Laak, winner of the WPT Invitation 2004; Humberto Brenes, known as "godfather of Costa Rican Players"; regular at final tables Steve Kates, partner of Royal Oasis Casino; and Tournament Organizer Burt Kravette.

Together, the PTI team has set plans in motion a series of multimedia poker events in the Caribbean, Central America, and South America sponsored in part by PartyPoker.com.

"PTI is a mid-range tournament series specifically designed for the guy next door to win big next to pro players," says Kates. Satellite tournaments for winners to win all expense paid trips will be held on PartyPoker.