Won a Seat to the WPT Invitiational
On Friday I was at Commerce Casino getting content for Gaming Illustrated Poker. We got to meet a lot of big name poker pros and did video interviews with tournament director Matt Savage, as well as pros Michael Mizrachi, Maria Ho, and Tiffany Michelle. The video with Matt Savage is up and can be seen by clicking here.
After the interviews were done the kind folks at Commerce Casino (and some top flight PR people) took care of us in the food department and we played the annual Media Poker Tournament. This year the field was as good as I've ever seen it. Some pro players from Vegas (they write for PokerNews or CardPlayer, etc) were playing in this 45-50 5-table tournament. What was up for grabs was a winner-take-all grand prize of a seat at the WPT Celebrity Invitational tournament. The tournament is technically a freeroll, but there are only 250 seats, and the invite list is extremely exclusive to Hollywood stars, Poker Super Pros, and me. Go Figure.
Needless to say I am tremendously excited about this amazing opportunity. We're playing for a $200,000 prize pool, a seat to the WPT 5 Diamond Classic (worth $25k), and the final table is taped for TV and will air on Fox Sports Network later in 2009. Watch the video of me taking it down!!! >>
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My name is Sean Gibson and I am a poker journalist and part time poker player. I work full time at PokerNewsDaily.com where I host a daily news show called "The Daily Deal" and also handle the bulk of the live player interviews. In terms of poker you will find me playing $1/$3 No Limit Hold'em in Vegas or in Los Angeles (or San Diego) and online playing small stakes games.
Aren’t there $200 rebuys in this event?
Plan on rebuying at all?
Yes there are and the rebuys are actually donations to a charity, so I’ll bring a rebuy, maybe two even, who knows. But I plan on sticking around!
I understand that you’re splitting with the guy in 2nd.
Even split? Even if you have to add a buy in or two?
Sean, Good work Bro! Keep me in the loop and let me know how you roll in the tourney. I’ll gladly come up and join your cheering section.
Congrats dude …