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March 13, 2006
Checkout all the fun people are having who play at pokerparty com tables for free or real money. Responding to the constantly changing face of the poker world, the World Poker Tour has added another event to the 2005-2006 schedule. As the Tour has continued to see the phenomenal growth of pokerparty continue on into its Fourth Season, the WPT feels that it is time to add another event to the list of tournaments that are already being vied for. The sixteen event schedule has been joined by the Borgata Winter Pokerparty .com Open, to be played at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ, from January 20th through February 1st.
The Borgata Winter Poker Open will be primarily a No-Limit Hold 'Em event. Buy-ins for the pokerparty tournaments will range from $500 to $2,500 and there will be a $500 Limit Event and a $300 Ladies' No-Limit event held during the tournament's twelve day run. Everything will be capped off, of course, by the $9,700 (plus $300) WPT Championship event that will start on January 29th. ESPN has been one of the most aggressive networks when it comes to the televised pokerparty com world. For some time, albeit on ESPN Classic, poker tournaments were a staple of their broadcasting. When ESPN was able to seize the broadcast rights to the World Series of Poker, among other high profile tournaments, they became one of the leaders in the pokerparty community. Their influence on poker hasn't stopped on the tube, however.
Through the ESPN Poker Club at espn.com, where people can play online at pokerparty .com for free, they have been able to generate a great deal of interest in the game. Bluff Magazine, which is one of the best of the current crop of magazines on the stands nowadays, is looking to expand its influence on the game as well. Thus, the announcement on Tuesday of an alliance between the two seems like a natural outcome. ESPN's PokerParty Club and Bluff Magazine announced that the magazine will be providing much of the content that can be found at the Club on espn.com. The collaboration of Bluff Magazine's roster of writers, including Marcel Luske, Josh Arieh, Antonio Esfandiari and many others, and the ESPN Poker Club, with writer Steve Rosenbloom, Phil Gordon and Annie Duke (both Gordon and Duke are also Bluff contributors), along with the free online pokerparty and contests, is a drive towards providing a complete poker destination for many poker fans.
PokerParty .com has made a name for itself by hiring top-flight poker talent over the last couple of years. While other sites have focused on star power, pokerparty has gone after the "everyman" champion like poker's Cinderella-story Chris Moneymaker and the ever-friendly and personable Greg Raymer, both have beaten long odds to capture a World Series of Poker main event bracelet and title. When faced with all the above attacks, how can the game of pokerparty be protected? This is the main battle front for the Poker Players Alliance, the non-profit organization that is located in Las Vegas. Brought together this year, the Poker Players Alliance is, at this point, the only group that is actively serving as a voice for poker in the legislative areas of the country and continues to attempt to fight back whenever the rights of pokerparty players are under attack. You may be surprised how much such a voice is needed.
