German Open Announced By Party Poker
Published: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 Online-Casinos.com
GERMAN OPEN ANNOUNCED BY PARTY POKER
36 top German pros will compete for the grand prize of Euro 50 000
Party Poker's new German Open poker competition action started today (Tuesday) in London. The Internet's largest poker site is sponsoring the event, which features 36 top German-speaking poker players and celebrities.
The first place winner will take home the grand prize of Euro 50 000. At Euro 2 500 it's an expensive buy-in, but this level creates a total prize pool of over Euro 117 000 euros. PartyPoker has already contributed a large percentage of the upfront financing.
Famous Germans around the Celebrity table include Rudiger Abramzik, Klaus Baumgart, Lou Richter, Uli Stein, and Ramon Vega. The winner of this group will earn a spot in the main tournament and go head-to-head with a real poker professional.
Some of the top professional poker players participating are Mike Keiner, Lothar Landaur and Eddie Scharf, players with impressive European and international poker track records. A Party Poker spokesman says that online players who have honed their skills to the required levels will also be playing - some for the first time in a live tournament.
