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HEADLINE: Poker
Dome Challenge debuts Memorial Day weekend
Body:
More than $2 million is up for grabs in Fox Sports Network’s
“Mansion Poker - Poker Dome Challenge.” On Sunday,
May 28, the first hand will be dealt as players compete for their
share of a $2.2 million series purse.
“Poker
Dome Challenge” will be shot with 26 cameras, recorded
onto four six-channel EVS servers in addition to several DigiBeta
tape decks, switched on a Grass Valley Kalypso switcher and edited
with three Final Cut Pro edit suites running on G-5 Quad Macs
(linked to 2TB of Apple’s Xsan storage).
The game is a 43-week series containing six seven-week Speed
Poker tournaments, all leading to a final table where one online
qualifier will walk away with $1 million. Speed Poker gives each
player 15 seconds to act before the player's hand is declared
dead.
Each week, six players from around the world will strap on Suunto
Team POD heart monitors and step into the Poker
Dome. The soundproof dome allows audiences on the outside
to see all the action — hole cards, discarded cards, a rabbit-hunting
camera, the players' heart rates and chip counts that change when
a player makes a wager — while keeping the players completely
isolated.
Players will have 15 seconds to bet, check or fold. Instead of
playing the standard 15-20 hands an hour, Speed Poker ratchets
that up to 80-100 hands an hour by using two dealers at the table,
switching off after every hand.
The series starts off on the Las Vegas strip at the Tropicana
Casino before its move to its permanent location inside the Neonopolis
on Fremont Street.
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