PPT schedule announced

June 2, 2006

In just over one month from now, the TV debut of the first season of the Professional Poker Tour (PPT) will be on the Travel Channel. On July 5, online poker players and poker enthusiasts from all over will be able to see their favorite poker players on the TV in a great TV program that covers the first season events.

WPT Enterprises, Inc., just released the new PPT schedule for the second season today.  The second season schedule will begin in September 2006. According to the newly released poker schedule, the second season features a field of 265 poker players and one new casino stop on the tour. The Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ was added as the second season’s latest addition. In addition to Borgata, the 4 PPT tourneys will be filmed at some of the biggest and best casinos this country has to offer poker players.

Included on the list of casinos is the Foxwoods Resort Casino, the well-known Southern California casino the Commerce Casino and the famous Bellagio casino on the Vegas Strip.

The new schedule for the high profile PPT features poker's leading pros in a new and electrifying genre. The new schedule along with its many fascinating poker players, many from online poker rooms, will be sure to stir up the pot of excitement that follows this tour. Drawn in by 4 separate free roll tourneys with a total of $2 million in prize money supplied by the PPT, this tours players and well known pros complete with fresh blood, will provide hours of exciting play for themselves and the TV show’s viewers.

Here is the schedule we received:

From September 11-12, the tour will be at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ. The final table will play out on the 20thg of September there.

From November 7-8, the tour will be at the Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, CT. The final table there will take place on the 15^th of November.

From November 29-30 the tour will stop ion at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, NV. That final table gets underway on the 20^th of December.

From February 12-13, the tour makes its way to Southern California’s Commerce Casino. The final table there takes place on March 6^th.

As far as tour participants go, new PPT players like Gavin Smith, Michael Mizrachi, Joe Bartholdi Tuan Le and more will take a shot at their part of the action.

Also, we will see such hot shots as Joseph Hachem, Patrik Antonius, Al Ardebili, Andrew Black, Alex Brenes, Steven Dannenmann, Michael Gracz, Joan Hoang, Rob Hollink, Alex Kahaner, Aaron Kanter, Scott Lazar, Danny Nguyen, Vanessa Rousso, Nick Schulman, and dozens more.

Returnees include Doyle Brunson, Phil Laak, Barry Greenstein, Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, John Juanda, Ted Forrest, Carlos Mortensen, Men Nguyen, Scotty Nguyen, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Harman, T. J. Cloutier, Dan Harrington, Antonio Esfandiari, Mel Judah, Kathy Liebert, Erik Seidel, David Williams, and so many more.

Online poker players will be anxious to see how these events pan out for sure.

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