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World Poker Tournament Insider
24 Feb 2005
Held at the Commerce Casino in California,
the World Poker Tournament Invitational is a freeroll sponsored by the World Poker
Tour. World Poker Tournament Insider is covering the event in great details. Hourly
updates, chip counts, bust out list, interviews and key hands
figure to give the poker enthusiast a small dose of what the big
boys are experiencing on the World Poker Tournament circuit. Anyone can enter a World Poker Tournament
event. Part of the appeal of poker is that as long as you ante up
the tournament entry fee, you can compete against the best. You
don"t have to be a pro, unlike other professional sports.
Players can enter online satellites for the Party Poker
Million, Bay 101 Shooting Stars, the L.A. Poker Classic and the World Poker Tournament
Championship. The Party Poker Million is a tournament held on a
magnificent cruise ship and the Shooting Stars is a unique poker
tournament in which poker fans can play against a poker superstar.
The World Poker Tournament Championship is the biggest poker tournament of the year,
with a buy-in of $25,000.
The World Poker Tour has become one of the hottest new pop culture
phenomena across America. Casinos and their online counterparts are
recording substantial increases in the number of poker players and
even begin to reconfigure their floors to devote more tables to
poker. A list celebrities including Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Sarah
Jessica Parker, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Vartan, Jack Black and
many others are reported to be fans.
Building on
the popularity of the show, World Poker Tour added a new celebrity
series to the roster World Poker Tournament Hollywood Home Game, featuring celebrities
such as Ben Affleck, Aisha Tyler, Jack Black, Mimi Rogers, Jon
Favreau and many other famous poker faces. |
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