PartyPoker.net European Championship Preview
Posted on October 29th, 2008
THE inaugural PartyPoker.net European Championship begins on Thursday night in Frankfurt, with 32 players competing for the £50,000 winner’s cheque.
The new event, the eighth major ranking event on the PDC circuit, will be televised live on ITV4 from the Südbahnhof from Thursday-Sunday.
World number one Phil Taylor will be bidding to claim a fourth successive televised title, having won the PartyPoker.net Las Vegas Desert Classic, Stan James World Matchplay and Sky Poker World Grand Prix since June.
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Sky Poker World Grand Prix 08 Schedule of Play
Posted on September 27th, 2008
THE Sky Poker World Grand Prix will begin on Monday October 6, with defending champion James Wade and world number two Raymond van Barneveld in action on the opening night.
Wade will kick off the tournament when he faces Tony Eccles in the best of three set first round, 12 months after he claimed his second major title with a 6-3 win over Terry Jenkins in Dublin.
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Both poker and darts are highly popular pursuits. The games are available online, in fact, that there are organizations dedicated to making sure the rules of video poker and online darts are conformed. Similar to darts having the World Darts Federation, among others, and poker has the Tournament Directors Association. These rules are put into place in highly competitive tournaments, in which as many as hundreds or even thousands of people compete for cash prizes as well as prestige.
