InterPoker.com to Take Poker to New
'Heights' as Poker Stars Drop From 10,000 Feet Above Las
Vegas at the Latest Extreme Poker Challenge - 'Loser's
Le
13 July 2006
Soaring over Sin City, InterPoker.com is getting
ready for the World Series of Poker by throwing
professional poker players out of a plane above the Las
Vegas desert at the latest Extreme Poker Challenge --
"Loser's Leap" which takes off on July 26 at Jean
airport. Poker pros such as Phil Laak, Antonio
Esfandiari & Scott Fischman will load into a SkyVan
aircraft and deal the cards. As they run out of chips,
they will run out of time, and quickly be shown the door
of the flying poker room -- at 10,000 feet. The last
person in the plane (besides the pilot) will be the
latest Extreme Poker Champion.
As the third installment of the Extreme Poker series,
the Texas Hold 'Em style poker game will pit members of
the InterPoker.com professional poker team and players
who qualified for the event online through the
InterPoker.com site. The qualifying online tournament
takes place on Saturday July 15th at 14:30 EDT. The
winner of this tournament will be on the Loser's Leap
plane on the 26th of July, playing with the pros against
each other in a single winner-take-all game, thousands
of feet above Las Vegas and only days before the World
Series of Poker Main Event. Extreme Poker's Challenge,
Loser's Leap, will last until one player wins all the
chips, or until the plane runs out of gas -- in which
case even the pilot will have to jump.
"This Extreme Poker event creates an unprecedented
challenge for the players to overcome because each of
them will have to fight through the stress of knowing
that if they lose, they're going to jump out of a
perfectly good airplane," said InterPoker spokesperson
Peter Marcus. "In this event, the poker pros aren't just
overcoming some discomfort or strange circumstances,
there will be a huge element of adrenaline and a degree
of genuine fear. That will make for an even more
entertaining time for everyone."
Previous Extreme Poker events took place underwater
on the ocean floor off the coast of INTERPOKER.COM TO
TAKE POKER TO NEW "HEIGHTS" AS POKER STARS WILL FALL
FROM 10,000 FEET ABOVE LAS VEGAS AT THE LATEST EXTREME
POKER CHALLENGE -- "LOSER'S LEAP"
St. Kitts in the Caribbean, where Finnish pro and WPT
event champion Juha Helppi became the first ever Extreme
Poker Champion. He then chose the world's largest ice
castle, in the city of Kemi in his home country of
Finland as the setting for the second Extreme Poker
challenge, which was won by 2002 WSOP winner Robert
Varkonyi.
"Having gone down to the wire and come up victorious
twice in the 2004 World Series of Poker, I know a thing
or two about performing under pressure," said InterPoker
Pro Scott Fischman. "But, I don't think anything can
match knowing that if you play a hand wrong, you're
going to be trusting your life to a big piece of cloth.
But, on the plus side, I think it will be hard for the
other players to bluff when they realize they've got no
cards and a short walk out the door awaiting them."
Players can qualify online for "Loser's Leap" by
checking the tournament room at InterPoker.com (http://interpoker.com)
for ongoing qualifying rounds.
The "Loser's Leap" tournament is the third in a
series of Extreme Poker events set in locations around
the globe, each aimed to test the limits of even the
most seasoned tournament players. Future settings will
include NASCAR racetrack, suspended platforms and bat
infested caves. For more information on InterPoker.com's
Extreme Poker visit http://www.interpoker.com.
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