Poker Pros About to Take Losers LeapNext InterPoker.com Extreme Poker Challenge Takes Place in an Airplane |
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First InterPoker.com held a poker tournament underwater. They held a tournament on an Artic ice shelf, so the promotional team over at the online poker site knew they had to aim high for their next Extreme Poker Challenge, and they sure did.
On July 26, Phil Laak, Scott Fischman, and four more players to be named later will load themselves into an airplane that will take them to 10,000 feet where the last person on the plane (other than the pilot) will be the latest Extreme Poker Champion.
As soon as a player is knocked from the flying table, he'll be tossed out of the plane. It's a good thing he'll be wearing a parachute. The name of this Extreme Poker Tournament is, of course, the "Loser's Leap."
Details are still being hashed out, but the game -- and leap -- will take place in the skies near Las Vegas. The game will include one or more person who qualified through InterPoker.com. The tournament will last until someone has all the chips - and the plane to himself - or when the plane runs out of fuel.
Juha Helppi won the first Extreme Poker challenge, barely beating out Laak before his tank of air ran out at a table sitting on the bottom of the Caribbean. This winter, Robert Varkonyi, the 2002 World Series of Poker main event champion, won the next Extreme Poker Challenge - albeit sleeveless - on an ice shelf near Finland's city of Kemi.
Fischman, whose one of InterPoker.com's pros, had this to say about the "Loser's Leap" tournament:
"Having gone down to the wire twice in the 2004 World Series of Poker, I know a thing or two about performing under pressure. But I don't think anything can match knowing that if you play a hand wrong, you're going to be trusting your life to a big piece of cloth. But, on the plus side, I think it will be hard for the other players to bluff when they realize they've got no cards and a short walk out the door awaiting them."
More details about the tournament will be available soon.
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