April 19 - Online poker room, Pokerroom.com, has sent one of the largest
teams to compete in the World Poker Tour World Championships at the Bellagio in
Las Vegas. 19 online poker qualifiers will be attending the event at a cost of
nearly $500,000...
The tournament commenced yesterday (April 18) at the Bellagio Hotel & Casino
in Las Vegas and runs through to April 24.
Each of the 19 entrants won a $27,900 package, which included travel and
accommodation expenses as well as the $25,000 tournament buy-in. The final team
was selected from a group of Pokerroom's top 100 players that regularly compete
in some of the biggest tournaments all over the world. The final qualifiers won
their way to the Bellagio in a series of intense online qualifiers.
Team
Pokerroom.com includes a mixed bunch of players from very diverse
backgrounds. members comprise a diverse group of players, including a
sales representative and an investment banking analyst, Jim Davenport. They are
all players that have exclusive endorsement deals with Pokerroom.com.
Jim won the $250,000 endorsement package, which includes travel expenses plus
buy-ins for for at least 12 major poker tournaments, by coming first in the
PokerRoom.com "Become a Poker Pro" tournament last month.
"The team is as much about camaraderie as it is about winning the World Poker
Championship" a PokerRoom.com spokes person said.
Click here to read our
PokerRoom.com Review. 
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