Melbourne/Australia with the biggest poker $$$ pool

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Melbourne's Crown Casino will host the world's richest poker tournament next year.

Six of the world's best poker players will compete for the $80 million kitty, with the winner to take all in a series of elimination matches in July next year.

It's expected Joe Hachem, the Melbourne poker player who earlier this year won a $US10 million prize at a tournament in Las Vegas, will be invited to play.

The event would be televised to 100 million households around the world through the Fox Sports Network in the United States and through other networks in Europe and Asia, Crown chief operating officer Richard Longhurst said.

Players will pay $US10 million ($A13.26 million) to buy into the match, he said.

"We consider this a coup for Crown Casino and for Melbourne and we are thrilled to be an integral part of this landmark international event," Mr Longhurst said.

"The $80 million winner-take-all event is a one-of-a-kind show that will not just take America by storm, but the international community as well."

Anybody interested in buying in?????????????

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Is it an obscene idea ?

Here are some more links to the tournament.

World's richest poker game at Crown http://afr.com/articles/2005/12/13/1134236036596.html

$80m poker prize up for grabs http://www.thecouriermail.news.com....255E421,00.html

This story I believe deserves more analysis.

"THE world's richest poker game, with a staggering $80 million winner-take-all prize, will be held at Melbourne's Crown Casino next year.

The four-hour event in July will carry the richest prize in Australian history."

It will be I believe the biggest cash prize for any televised sporting (?) event ever. Using U.S. $'s. 6 players will each be putiing up $10 million and the prize will be $60 million. The $80 million in the two articles above comes from the conversion to Aus $'s.

The players, and it's a by invitation tournament, will be putting up their own or sponsors money. $10,000.000 is of course 1,000 times greater than the WSOP No limit hold'em final which in itself, although inflation has taken it's toll over the years, is still one of the most expensive in the world to enter.

$60M Winner-Take-All Poker Tourney Set http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051212...er_tournament_1 - Time sensitive link.

"Fox Sports Net and Mansionpoker.net reached agreement on a three-year deal Monday, with the pots growing to $75 million in 2007 and $100 million in 2008 for the one-day competitions at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia."

http://www.Mansionpoker.net http://www.mansionpoker.net/fsn-tv-poker-deal.php http://www.mansionpoker.net/FSN-announcement.pdf

"To illustrate the magnitude of the event, private armed guards, along with casino personnel, provide a constant security presence. Plus, medical teams will be standing by, monitoring each of the players' heart rates in the event that pushing $1 and $5 million chips into the pot causes a player's heart to race faster than Schumacher."

FSN to televise richest poker tournament ever http://msn.foxsports.com/other/stor...813162&ATT=5286