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HEADLINE: FullTilt Poker $25k World Championship

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Chris Ferguson, the 2008 National Heads Up Poker Champion and Fulltilt Poker will host and sponsor the largest buy-in, heads-up tournament ever in online poker.

The tourney will be held on Saturday, May 24th and Sunday, May 25th and will feature a field of up to 64 big time poker players including Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen and Howard Lederer.

Lederer's resume includes two WSOP bracelets, two WPT titles and he was the 2003 WPT Player of the Year.

Hansen is nicknamed The Great Dane is the only player to win four World Poker Tour titles and was the winner of the 2007 Aussie Millions Main Event.

Phil Ivey who is considered by many to be the top poker player in the world owns five WSOP bracelets and a WPT Championship.

The tournament if filled could have a prize pool in excess of one million dollars. The pool had already surpassed one half a million.

According to the FTP website, "players may buy into this tournament directly for $25,000 in either real money or T$, or may satellite their way into the event through online qualifiers run on Full Tilt Poker. $500 + $35 heads-up qualifier tournaments will take place at 15:00 ET on Thursday, May 22nd and at 21:00 ET on Friday, May 23rd."

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