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Greatest Poker Players receive their own website
Published: 2005-12-23
 The greatest poker players the world has ever seen have been rewarded with their own website. It is a fitting gesture for their amazing achievements.
/24-7PressRelease/ - BEVERLY HILLS, CA, December 23, 2005 - The Greatest Poker Playersare household names which roll off the tongue.
Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, Johnny Moss, Phil Ivey and Stu Ungar just to name a few.
All in all there are 15 players on the website. While these people are all very differnt and individuals in their own right - there is one underlying common denominator.
That is they were able to defy the odds and consistently produce results in a game where luck usually plays a big part.
Win one tournament and you are lucky. Win two and you are good and win more then there is no fluke. You are a good player.
Players included on the Greatest Poker Players site are the best ever. Time and time again they produced and when it looked like things were at their most hopeless, they delivered biggest.
Each of the 15 Greatest Poker Players has a compelling story. A story of how they got to where they where to legend status. What made them tick and operate.
For anyone out there who aspires to be a poker player and wants to know what it takes, then this Greatest Poker Playerswebsite is compulsory reading.
They each have fascintaing tales and ones you should read.
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POKER GRAND SLAM SET TO ROLL
Published: 2005-12-22
 Playing for reward and national honour
Top European poker players will battle it out in the Poker Grand Slam tournament (see previous Online-Casinos.com & InfoPowa reports) scheduled to take place in January at the Casino Star City in Birmingham - and representative players from the nations involved give the tournament added excitement as they battle it out to assert national poker dominance.
42 players from France, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Ireland, Scotland, England, and Wales will fight it out for two consecutive days, playing today's hottest game, No Limit Texas Hold'em.
Sky Sports will broadcast the event in March 2006 and the event will be segmented into six hour-long episodes.
Only three players will make the final tournament and the cash. First place will take home Euro 50,000 euros (US$58,600 ), second will earn Euro 30,000 ($US 35,100), and third place picks up Euro 20,000 (US$23,400).
To sweeten the pot, the hosts have offered the country team with the most accumulated player points by the end of the tournament Euro 110 000 (US $128,900).
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