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WORLD POKER TOUR BATTLES COMMENCE
Published: 2006-04-22
 605 players, a $15 million prizepool and tons of excitement
One of the premier events in poker, the World Poker Tour World Championships swung into gear this week for the fourth time at the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Vegas with 606 contestants and a massive prizepool of $15 125 000.
For the man or woman who beats 605 opponents from 40 countries in games taking place over 6 days the rewards are huge - a $3.8 million first prize. Players placed 2 to 4th stand to clean up as well, with million dollar or more individual payouts.
At a $25,500 buy-in the tournament is certainly not the cheapest around, but for prestige, prizes and media coverage it is pretty hard to beat.
"The WPT World Championship is considered the toughest tournament in the world to win if you consider the caliber of the competitors," says Steve Lipscomb, founder and CEO of WPT Enterprises, Inc. "At a cost of $25,500 to get to the table, you have to be a very accomplished poker player. You've either built a very solid bankroll or you've outlasted thousands in satellite tournaments. No doubt this final table will be a cliffhanger."
The WPT World Championship crowns the WPT's fourth season, bringing the total prize money for the 17 tournaments to $85,120,000. The tournaments currently airing on the Travel Channel every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. have provided the 20 newest WPT Poker Millionaires.
By the time the final table assembles on Monday, April 24, at 4 pm those 606 contestants will have been whittled down to six and from those six one will be the new champ.
Update: April 22, 2006
Going into Day 4 of the championship the field has already been reduced to 74 players, which include many well known poker names.
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AIRHEAD ONLINE POKER CHALLENGE FROM PARTYPOKER
Published: 2006-04-22
 Online poker room - partypoker - gives blonde airhead Paris Hilton a chance to recover poker game losses
It has become almost impossible to escape the grinning and rather vacuous visage of American heiress Paris Hilton as the media voraciously follows her latest inconsequential antics in glitterati-land, but this month she hit the silly-ass headlines by losing her GBP 100 000 and some change Bentley car in a poker game at a land casino establishment.
Whilst many shook their heads that such an airhead should be allowed to roam loose, the folks at Partypoker saw an opportunity in Paris Hilton' s folly and have come up with an offer to replace the expensive wheels...if she can beat PartyPoker host Mike Sexton in a heads up No-Limit Hold 'Em game.
This astute marketing and publicity offer is open to Paris Hilton for thirty days, and will take place online at online poker card room Partypoker, no doubt amidst a high profile media blitz that will appeal to both Party Poker and Hilton, who is a notorious publicity hound. In fact, if Hilton prefers to play the challenge on land, Party will agree to that too.
"Paris has said she is mad about poker and that she always wins in Vegas. We're offering her the chance to get lucky and she doesn't even need to leave her house," stated Warren Lush, the spokesman for PartyPoker. "We're aware that her parents have banned her from gambling at their casino. This online challenge solves all her problems...she can cover her losses without stepping foot in there."
As Online-Casinos.com went to press, Paris Hilton had not responded to the challenge.
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