WPT Canadian Open Poker Tourney
Published: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
WPT CANADIAN OPEN POKER TOURNEY GOES TO NIAGARA
Fallsview Casino Resort will host inaugural World Poker Tour Canadian Open
The spectacular Niagara Falls will be the backdrop for a new top ranked poker championship next month. World Poker Tour has confirmed that its inaugural WPT Canadian Open championships will be hosted at the Fallsview Casino Resort in Niagara Falls on October 22-24, just days before the WPT North American Poker Championship begins at the same location October 25.
"We recognized the need for a major national televised poker event that Canadians could call their own," said Steve Lipscomb, CEO and founder of WPT Enterprises, Inc. "Canada is rich in poker fans - both new and longstanding - who have already embraced the WPT on their TV networks."
"They have watched several of their own rise to the top on the World Poker Tour, including Gavin Smith, the Season IV WPT Player of the Year, and Daniel Negreanu, the Season III WPT Player of the Year. We look forward to working in concert with the Fallsview Casino to establish the WPT Canadian Open as the premiere poker event in Canada."
The WPT Canadian Open will give recreational poker players a better chance to experience a big-time professional poker event by offering lower buy-ins for events and satellites. Other than that, the tournament will be run exactly like the WPT North American Poker Championships.
The buy-in for the event is Can$ 2 700. There are several satellite tournaments available including $50 events on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, as well as $330 events on Fridays and Saturdays until October 21. A win at the $50 level earns the player a seat in a $330 event, and a win in the $330 event gets the player into the main event.
"Players taking part in the WPT Canadian Open will experience everything the professional WPT players experience - the bright lights, the TV cameras, the pressure - everything," said Greg Medulun, the manager of corporate communications for Fallsview. "Playing online and in regular casino games is one thing, but sitting where the stars sit with all eyes on you is quite another."
The Canadian Open final table will be filmed for television. The players will play down to just six players by the end of October 24. Then they will have to wait until the North American Poker Championship is completed before finally sitting down to play the final table in front of the cameras, giving the players the full WPT experience.
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