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Thursday 27th July 2006 Adrenaline-Pumping Poker at 15,000 Feet
As if putting up $10,000 for a chance to sit down at the WSOP wasn't big enough thrill for poker pro Phil Laak, yesterday he and four InterPoker.com players embarked on the most adrenaline inducing poker tournament to ever be held in Sin City.
Just days before the main event at the WSOP, and at 15,000 feet above Las Vegas, Laak, Nick Grudzien, Jamie Glasser, Fraser Linkletter and Patrick Neary went head to head in an electric game of Extreme Poker, in which four losers were literally thrown out of the plane – with a parachute, of course.
'Extreme Poker is all about keeping your cool under extreme duress and I can't think of a more stressful situation than knowing that you must fall 15,000 feet from a moving aircraft if your opponent calls your bluff,' said Peter Marcus, spokesperson for InterPoker.com and creator of Extreme Poker.
Grudzien emerged from the plane as the latest Extreme Poker champion after he sent his opponents hurtling toward the desert below. The win earned him a place in the Extreme Poker Hall of Fame as well as buy-in and an all expense paid trip to the 2006 Caribbean Poker Classic in St. Kitts, a package valued at $13,000.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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