<TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=contentheading width="100%">Probably OLD news by the date of the article but I was wacthing fsn Poker last night and noticed this....
MansionPoker.net and FSN create $60 Million TV poker tournament
</TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Tuesday, 13 December 2005 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>
If you thought online poker couldn't get any bigger, you'll need to sit down for this. Because come 2006, poker will have a brand new face, $60 Million in the kitty and a full-scale poker dome in Vegas, constructed specially for the megamoney Mansion Poker event!
I love playing online poker as much as the next guy but seriously, where and when is the line going to be drawn? Do we just keep expanding exponentially with bigger prizes and zanier stunts? $60 Million bucks at Mansion Poker is one thing - bring it on, I say. But do we really need to be building a poker dome on top of the gigantic cash giveaway? I guess it's par for the course when Fox Sports is involved. And definitely high up on the marketing agenda of soon-to-be-launched Mansion Poker, who'll need to go a long way to stand out from the clamoring poker crowd.
But thanks to the huge check on offer and some techno wizardry at the card table, poker has a new future in store - and viewers around the world are in for a gambling treat. Say hello to the newest, biggest, latest and greatest poker room to deal a winning hand for poker players everywhere: Mansion Poker!
Take any of the big poker tournaments that come to mind and imagine them fading into run-of-the-mill mediocrity in a few months to come. World Series of Poker, pah. World Poker Tour, child's play. Who needs a luke-warm couple of million when you can leapfrog the whole lot and skip straight to the biggest poker purse on the planet: the 2006 PokerDome Series, hosted by MansionPoker.net.
The Mansion Poker Poker Dome Series is scheduled to hit the small sports screen on 15 May 2006, for a very optimistic 43 week run! That's almost a year, with a whole lot of poker going on. But if this was just another poker series brought to us by another online poker room, it would be yesterday's news even though the event hasn't even happened yet. What makes this one so special? $60 Million in prizemoney and a custom-made real life poker dome, with a few new technologically-advanced rules.
The dome will house the players seated at tables within a high-gloss, high-tech cone of absolute silence and concentration, with a view out onto the Las Vegas Strip. Like all good reality shows, Fox has come to the party again on this one, placing microphones in strategic positions at the poker tables and constructing the outside walls of the dome in one-way mirrored glass. Fans see in, fans camp outside, fans don't eat or breathe or sleep until every second of the world's richest reality series is over. Let's hope they have a day job to go back to after the 43 weeks!
This is HUGE money so FSN and Mansion Poker (apt project for the brand to sponsor don't you think?) have gone out on a limb, not only with the $60,000,000 in prize money but in redefining poker (and poker on TV) as we know it. The world-first PokerDome features tables with specially-crafted cameras and computer chips within the cards that capture and broadcast all hole and burnt cards as they come out. Viewers might even get to see the hands before the players themselves do! Not only that, in an industry ground-breaking move, FSN will feature a 'rabbit hunting' camera that will project what the outcome of the hand would've been if every player played until the river without folding. And all of this on a giant video screen for an extra bit of adrenalin and play-til-you-drop pressure.
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MansionPoker.net and FSN create $60 Million TV poker tournament
</TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD><TD class=buttonheading align=right width="100%"> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE class=contentpaneopen><TBODY><TR><TD class=createdate vAlign=top colSpan=2>Tuesday, 13 December 2005 </TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top colSpan=2>
If you thought online poker couldn't get any bigger, you'll need to sit down for this. Because come 2006, poker will have a brand new face, $60 Million in the kitty and a full-scale poker dome in Vegas, constructed specially for the megamoney Mansion Poker event!I love playing online poker as much as the next guy but seriously, where and when is the line going to be drawn? Do we just keep expanding exponentially with bigger prizes and zanier stunts? $60 Million bucks at Mansion Poker is one thing - bring it on, I say. But do we really need to be building a poker dome on top of the gigantic cash giveaway? I guess it's par for the course when Fox Sports is involved. And definitely high up on the marketing agenda of soon-to-be-launched Mansion Poker, who'll need to go a long way to stand out from the clamoring poker crowd.
But thanks to the huge check on offer and some techno wizardry at the card table, poker has a new future in store - and viewers around the world are in for a gambling treat. Say hello to the newest, biggest, latest and greatest poker room to deal a winning hand for poker players everywhere: Mansion Poker!
The Mansion Poker Poker Dome Series is scheduled to hit the small sports screen on 15 May 2006, for a very optimistic 43 week run! That's almost a year, with a whole lot of poker going on. But if this was just another poker series brought to us by another online poker room, it would be yesterday's news even though the event hasn't even happened yet. What makes this one so special? $60 Million in prizemoney and a custom-made real life poker dome, with a few new technologically-advanced rules.
This is HUGE money so FSN and Mansion Poker (apt project for the brand to sponsor don't you think?) have gone out on a limb, not only with the $60,000,000 in prize money but in redefining poker (and poker on TV) as we know it. The world-first PokerDome features tables with specially-crafted cameras and computer chips within the cards that capture and broadcast all hole and burnt cards as they come out. Viewers might even get to see the hands before the players themselves do! Not only that, in an industry ground-breaking move, FSN will feature a 'rabbit hunting' camera that will project what the outcome of the hand would've been if every player played until the river without folding. And all of this on a giant video screen for an extra bit of adrenalin and play-til-you-drop pressure.
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