October Date For New William Hill Poker Tourney
Published: Friday, July 22, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
OCTOBER DATE FOR NEW WILL HILL POKER TOURNEY
Major table tournament will have a prize chest of GBP 450 000
The major British gambling group William Hill announced plans this week to sponsor a major televised poker tournament between 17 and 25 October 2005 where the winner will receive GBP 150 000.
The William Hill Grand Prix Poker Tournament is the group's first move into the major table tournament sector, with a GBP 100 000 in sponsorship being added to the players' stakes to create a prize chest of GBP 450 000, with the winner taking home GBP 150 000.
One of the UK's top TV poker production teams, Presentable Limited has been signed up to showcase the programme, which will be aired in early December on the Poker 425 channel on Sky TV. Presentable has extenstive experience in the poker TV field, having produced the successful Late Night Poker series.
Will Hill's plan is to invite only world leading players to play in the event, the whole concept behind the tournament being to put the skill back into the technical game, and move away from what it calls "...a 'blind structure' that is made for speed."
With 7 heats of 8 people at each table, comprising 8 online qualifiers and 48 top international poker professionals the event promises to be a fascinating exposition of the art of skilled poker play.
Entrants will be allowed to wear logos and branded merchandise, and Internet qualification for the 8 online entries, began this week through the William Hill Poker website.
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