Bluff Poker Tour: First International Online Poker Tour.ATLANTA, Ga. -- Please replace the release due to multiple revisions with the following corrected version. The corrected release reads: BLUFF POKER TOUR: FIRST INTERNATIONAL ONLINE POKER Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. In 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated at US$ 200 million per month. TOUR Bluff Magazine Bluff Magazine is an American magazine specializing in the game of poker. Separate editions are also published for Europe and Australasia. The American edition began as a bimonthly in October 2004, and went monthly in August 2005. , the world's leading poker publication, has announced the Bluff Poker Tour (BPT BPT Bridgeport (Connecticut) BPT Best Practicable Control Technology BPT Best Practicable Control Technology Currently Available BPT BP Prudhoe Bay Royalty Trust (stock symbol) BPT Boston Playwrights' Theatre ); the world's first international virtual poker tour. Participants of the Bluff Poker Tour compete in weekly tournaments at official BPT tour stops across the web. "More people play poker online then they do in Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. and California combined," said Jeff Markley, VP of Online Operations for Bluff Media. "With the Bluff Poker Tour, we've tapped into the venues that they play at most and arranged a unique mix of virtual poker combined with the tangible anchor of America's favorite poker magazine." The Bluff Poker Tour's weekly online poker tournaments are all No Limit Hold'em events and allow players to be ranked online as they are in terrestrial poker. The Bluff Poker Tour also allows players a chance to compete with heavyweight poker muscle like tour host, Michael "The Grinder Grinder A slang term for a person who works in the investment industry and makes small amounts of money at a time on small investments, over and over again. Notes: " Mizrachi, who will be playing in many of the upcoming BPT tournaments. Players who go head to head with Mizrachi have a chance to win an additional bounty should they be lucky or skillful skill·ful adj. 1. Possessing or exercising skill; expert. See Synonyms at proficient. 2. Characterized by, exhibiting, or requiring skill. to felt The Grinder. Top players at the end of the season will qualify for the BPT Championship Tournament. The BPT Champion will receive buy-in to three World Poker Tour For the PBS network with the same abbreviation, see . The World Poker Tour (Abbreviated WPT) is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. tournaments. "It is our goal to offer the poker enthusiast the type of excitement normally reserved for those fortunate enough to quit work and join the tour," said Jeff. "By making the BPT an online tournament, we've made professional quality tournament poker available to everyone. And by placing the winner of our online tour into three World Poker Tour events, we will give them the opportunity to live the life of a poker pro without having to give up the lives they have." To participate in, or view more information about the Bluff Poker Tour, visit http://www.bluffpokertour.com About Bluff Magazine (www.bluffmagazine.com): Bluff Magazine is America's Largest Poker Magazine with 225,000 copies printed and distributed nationwide. Bluff's 125,000 newsstand copies and 100,000 event and location copies gets Bluff into the hands of any poker enthusiasts eager to keep up with the fast-paced modern poker lifestyle. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion