|  | | | 10 Aug 2006
August 10th, 2006 will mark the end of the richest and biggest poker tournament in history, and Paddy Power, a leading online casino and book maker, is offering live betting to its loyal online gaming fans. Nine players will have gone head-to-head through a field of 8,773 poker players who each paid US 10,000 dollars to play in the prestigious World Series of Poker Main Event. Punters have been piling on thousands of bets with 21 different markets to choose from. Because of the high demand, the online casino book maker plans at least three betting in running markets on the final table. For the first time, the final table will be televised and broadcast on the World Wide Web live on ESPN pay-per-view.
Spokesman for the online casino company, Paddy Power said, ‘This has been our biggest poker betting market ever and we want to give fans who couldn't be there and players who got knocked out a chance to sweat every hand of the final table and make a few quid towards their buy-in next year.’ Online casino poker fans are definitely going to get their money’s worth in televised viewing and excitement. This Main Event is sure to be one online poker fans will never forget.
There will be both an 'outright winner' market and a 'next player gone' market as well as a 'winning hand' market available at the online casino. The final table begins at around 8pm (BST) on Thursday evening with a US 12 million dollar prize pool. And with the guarantee of every player earning US 1 million dollars just for reaching the final table, poker participants have nothing to lose. Online casino fans everywhere will be keeping a close eye on this final table – both to learn from the best and see if their bets were on the money.
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