PARTYPOKER.NET European Challenge Vienna 2007

A NEW COLD FRONT IN THE POKER WORLD OPENS UP TONY G AND DEVILFISH CAPTAIN THE EAST VERSUS WEST CUP

PartyPoker.com is pleased to announce that qualifiers are in full swing for the inaugural PartyPoker.net European Challenge, which will take place in March in Vienna during the heart of the Spring Poker Festival. This year they are qualifiers with a difference, however, as the first 50 online qualifiers from Eastern Europe will take on the first 50 online qualifiers from Western Europe in the PartyPoker.com East versus West Cup, a €100,000 freeroll, as well as taking the main package.

The PartyPoker.com East versus West Cup has recently been finalized and opens up a new cold front in the poker world. The East will be captained by Tony G and the West by Dave “The Devilfish” Ulliott and the amount of good feeling between these two can be documented on the back of a postage stamp. The action will be filmed for worldwide television distribution featuring 6x 52min highlight show package.

“Tony G and the Devilfish will be there to lead their teams – we’ll need an iron curtain to separate the two. This event is sure to show whether it is a phoney war between them or whether this event will renew their hostilities. Tony G and the Devilfish have famously clashed many times, in particular, at last year's Intercontinental Poker Championship in Las Vegas and at the EPT in Paris a while back." The PartyPoker.com European Challenge be a highlight of the 13th annual Austrian Spring Poker Festival and will be held at the Concord Card Casino; one of Europe’spremiere poker locations. It takes place rom 10-17 March 2007, with an estimated prize pool of around $1.1 million. Again a 6x 52min highlight show package will be available. Last year’s winner, Vienna-based pro Siegfried Stockinger, has already confirmed his participation in the event and the home favourite again looks the man to beat, after he systematically took apart the competition last year. The Spring Poker Festival promises to be very card playing enthusiasts dream. Around 1000 people expected to flock to the Austrian capital for the week long extravaganza, meaning side action will not be hard to find.

Poker sport is a perfect event for sports and entertainment on TV. There is no where else to meet so many different dynamic characters. Today, poker players are young and attractive, they measure up to the old warhorses. The tournament is produced with 19 broadcastcameras for millions of poker sport lovers as more and more television stations are putting on with this sport that requires body, concentration and brainwork at the same time.

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