 |  Sponsorship of the World Poker Championship
23 Apr 2004
April 23, 2004 -- The Gaming Club, part of Belle Rock Gaming and
one of the worlds leading online casino and poker rooms owned by
Carmen Media in conjunction with Las-Vegas-Casinos.US, announces
its sponsorship of The World Poker Championship in a two year deal.
The deal is the largest poker sponsorship deal ever made in Europe
and is worth in excess of one million Euros. Starting with the 2004
tournament, the event will take place in Dublin, Eire, over 23rd
27th June and will be broadcast as a ten part television series on
Sky Sports later in the year. To be called The Gaming Club World
Poker Championship, the tournament will see the cream of the worlds
poker professionals, including 9 times World Series Champion Phil
Hellmuth, 2004 British Open champion Dave Devilfish Ulliott, The
Hendon Mob and Europes leading female poker player Lucy Rokach
pitting their skills against a hungry new breed of challengers from
all over the world. The Gaming Club World Poker Championship has a
biggest ever first prize in land-based Pot Limit Holdem seen by
many as the most skilful variation of poker - of 250,000 and a
massive total prize fund of over 730,000, based on a maximum of 128
players. The tournament format and payout structure has been
devised by international poker legend and two-time World Series
Champion Mel Judah, who is tournament director. 128 players will be
split into a series of two-table heats consisting of eight players
per table, with the eventual winner of each 16-man heat going
through to the final. The eight runners up will then contest a semi
final to join the winners at a nine-man final table for the chance
to bag the 250,000 top prize. Every player who reaches the semi
final will be in the money under the pay out structure, meaning one
in eight entrants will walk away richer! Carmen Media CEO and
Chairman, Tim Johnson commented on behalf of Las-Vegas-Casinos.US:
Our customers are playing more and more poker online, and so
sponsorship of the World Poker Championship by the Gaming Club
gives us the opportunity to offer them something really special.
The prizes and the competition will be world beating, and those who
cant make it to Dublin either as players of spectators will be able
to share in the excitement by watching it on the Sky Sports
television coverage. |
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