Poker Shows Sponsored By 888 Online Casino
Published: Saturday, April 01, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
TWO NEW POKER SHOWS ON CHALLENGE TV SPONSORED BY 888 ONLINE CASINO
Women and showbiz the themes for new poker programming
Celebrity poker play on the theme "Women's Poker" and "Showbiz Poker" will be aired on British TV in April, sponsored by 888 Online Casino through its Pacific Poker subsidiary.
The shows, on the Challenge television network will run every night, with "Women's Poker" starting at 10 p.m. for two weeks beginning on April 3. "Showbiz Poker" will air weekdays at 10:30 p.m. starting on April 17.
"Women's Poker" will feature celebrity poker enthusiasts, established poker pros, and home viewers as the contestants, while "Showbiz Poker" will be a celebrity-based tournament-style series awarding a prize pool of GBP 25 000.
Challenge TV exec Celia Taylor said that the number of women playing poker was increasing dramatically in a formerly male-dominated game: "We're always ahead of the game in poker programming and women are about to clean up in the male dominated poker world," she said.
Other poker shows and tournaments broadcast by Challenge TV include the World Poker Tour (WPT), Celebrity Poker Showdown, Ultimate Poker Challenge, and the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
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