'FACE THE ACE' PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN NBC AND FULL TILT
POKER
3 July 2009
A new concept for televised poker shows
In the United States, NBC and Full Tilt Poker.com are
joining up again, this time to produce Face the Ace, a
new concept for a poker show where players who qualify
online get to play heads-up against three Full Tilt pros
for a million dollar prize.
A spokesman for NBC
said that if selected to be a participant on the show,
the contestant will have to choose between four
smoked-glass doors, behind each of which is a top
professional poker player, or the “Aces.” Once one is
chosen, the contestant will play that pro in a heads-up
No-Limit Texas Hold’em match. Should the contestant
defeat the pro, they will have the opportunity to take
the money they have won and leave or risk it all and
choose another door and battle a different pro for a
significantly larger sum of money.
There is as
yet unconfirmed speculation that the roster of pros for
the show, which will be presented by Sopranos star Steve
Schirripa, includes Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Chris “Jesus”
Ferguson, Jennifer Harman, Erick Lindgren, Phil Gordon,
Erik Seidel, Allen Cunningham, Andy Bloch, John Juanda,
Mike Matusow, Patrik Antonius and Howard Lederer.
Entry to the Face the Ace promotion is free: the
classification tournaments are all freerolls, details of
which will soon be available at the Full Tilt Poker
websites or visit www.face-the-ace.com.
All
winners in the online qualifiers will be flown to Vegas
with one guest, and lodged at the Golden Nugget for 5
days and 4 nights, where they will get $500 spending
money and their chance to audition for NBC’s new poker
show.
Filming is imminent, and Face the Ace will
premiere on NBC on Saturday, August 1st at 9:00 pm ET.
Seven one-hour episodes of the program are currently
booked, and they will show from the prime-time August
1st debut through January 2nd, 2010.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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