Tuesday, February 08, 2005

I had to laugh...

Just tuned into Challenge tv for the Ultimate Poker Challenge.

I know it's the announcer's job to hype up the forthcoming programme but when she described this as "The World's best poker players doing battle for a huge first prize" I was more than a little amused to see that 6 of the seven contestants were: Steve Simmons, Michael Ross, Brain Nadell, Renee Wexler, Ken James and Mike Turner (who dey?) and they were playing for a first prize of wait for it.... $8000!

Talk about, filler tv!

Still, funny to see all this hoopla for a comp where the prize money is less than a £100 event at Luton!

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

You've gotta love the carpet in the Plaza though...

6:48 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The organizers of the UPC were expecting 200 people to pay $1,060 for EACH of the 23 2-day tournaments, which would create a prize pool worth "millions" for the final tournament. They got at most about 75, with several in the 40's.

Kevin...

7:44 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

a total flop with the name players wondering where the fck everyone else is and lookig desperate to get knocked out...unless they are broke like seidel...

4:29 AM  

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