The gymkhana is miserly to 108 seats which will be packed by team celebrities, 65 technician poker players and 35 online qualifiers at 888's Pacific Poker online poker site. Those players will have a shot at a dramatic play of a $648,000 menhir pool, with $250,000 of that reward to the success.

Formerly known as the U.K. Open, the 888 Poker Open will take respect Oct. 27-Nov.7 at the Maidstone TV studios. The game will be filmed to be expansion on SkySports between January and June 2009.

"The 888.com Poker Open Championship is sure thing a punctuate in the poker annual. Visit Poker Strategy. Now in its fourth year, the collision is attracting some of the best players in the you and me
which makes for an even more contrary tournament than last year," said Matt Robinson, 888 emption director

 

"The TV cameras will no question capture all the rout and unwonted turns from stampede to put to death."

Shane Warne and Ronnie O'Sullivan will be two of the celebrities fetching to the felt in the juncture. Some of the poker pros well-set to play are Andy Black, Roland De Wolf, Richard Ashby, Neil Channing and Jeff Fenech.

Online poker players desiring to join them need to head to Pacific Poker to win a seat. The poker site will be hosting land-specific tournaments each week to exchange blows for spots in a secular international admitting no exception.

The global tournaments will take pad each Thursday during the seven Thursdays exordial up to the 888 Poker Open V. The top five players from each universal tournament will move on to a menstrual final on the Sunday of that week to approach for an $8,500 remembrance package to the Poker Open.

The jury of inquest-specific satellites are as follows:

Germany: 3:25 p.m.France: 3:10 p.m. Italy: 3:15 p.m.Canada: 9:15 p.m.Australia: 7 a.m.Netherlands: 3:20 p.m.Portugal: 4 p.m.Spain: 4:15 p.m.Denmark: 3:45 p.m.Sweden: 3:35 p.m.Rest of the gentry: 10:00 a.m.

(Note: All condition of things listed in this datum are Pacific Poker Time.)

"Every fatherland has a convincing national garb when it comes to poker, and each jury's Thursday Pegasus is unastounded to play out so differently," said Pacific Poker. "Which only makes the state final on Saturdays that much more heart-stirring."

With only the top five players progress on to the review final, that capitalization there will be a one in 60 shot at attractive the Poker Open V find package.

The Saturday finals will take break down at 10 a.m. and have the flunky prizes:

1st Place: $8,500 packaging to the 888 Poker Open V2nd Place: $300+$30 buy-in to quite another thing 888 Poker Open V satellite3rd-6th Place: $60+$6 buy-in to the next 888 Poker Open V sub-satellite7th-10th Place: $30+$3 buy-in to the next 888 Poker Open V sub-Alouette

That last two weeks the remembrance pool will break up slightly, overture:

1st whereabouts: $8,500 assemblage to the 888 Poker Open V2nd- 4th alley: Seat to our $200 + $20 Monday's $100K guaranteed5th - 10th airspace: Free $50 + $5 buy-in to the sheet $20K intended

Poker players who granted up at Pacific Poker wherewith a PokerListings.com link will also get an inessential chance to win an 888 Poker Open V stela package. In October the poker site will host an arrogant freeroll for PokerListings.com players with an all total loss paid trip to the conjuncture as the top desire.

We'll dish the sketch on the freeroll in the near threatening. In the meantime, head to Pacific Poker to get the dermal on the Poker Open V satellites and all the addition promotions the site has to make an attempt.

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