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HEADLINE: High-Stakes Poker Show Offers Amateur
Qualifiers
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Even Non-Pros Can Play High-Stakes Cash Games on TV in the
Ultimate Poker Challenge's Cash Poker.
For those of you who have dreamed of playing
poker on national TV, the Ultimate Poker Challenge is giving
you your chance. The UPC’s new show, Cash Poker,
is the first televised high-stakes cash game
to offer Internet satellite entries, and the show guarantees that
every player will be seen on TV.
Cash Poker, held
at Binion’s Hotel and Casino in Downtown Las Vegas, pits
18 players (not including alternates) against each other in a
$25,000-$100,000 buy-in no-limit
hold’em cash game.
Rebuys of at least $10,000 are also allowed at any time. Players
can cash out and leave at any point after at least four hours
of play — or, of course, if they lose.
With such a large buy-in, the events are already attracting some
big names in poker,
including Kenna James, Chad Brown, Tex Barch, Robert Williamson
III, Mike Matusow, Cyndy Violette, Doyle Brunson, Dan Harrington,
David Williams, and others.
Along with the poker
notables, one seat per table is reserved for Internet qualifiers.
Players will be able to qualify for the seat via satellite tournaments
on Absolute
Poker, although these satellites had not yet begun to run
at the time this was written.
Those interested in signing up with Absolute
Poker to take advantage of the qualifiers can do so by clicking
here.
Binion’s also holds live-poker satellites for entry into
Cash Poker. The satellites
have a $500 buy-in (with $50 entry fee) and are winner-take-all
events. The next satellites are scheduled to run on March 14 and
April 4, both at 4 p.m. PT. Cash Poker
is not an invitational event, so anyone can register to play through
satellite entry or direct buy-in.
More information about the Binion’s satellites can be found
by calling 800-622-6468. People seeking information about buying
in directly to Cash Poker,
or about the show in general, can click here.
The TV schedule for the show and the channel that it airs on
varies widely on a city-by-city basis. For show times in your
area, please click
here.
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