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Countdown Is On To PartyPoker.com Million VI History Making Poker Cruise Sets Sail From Venice On Saturday!

Gibraltar (PRWEB) April 30, 2008 -- The PartyPoker.com Million VI gets underway on Saturday and sets sail from Venice ready for a week of action.

The eight day PartyPoker.com Million VI takes place from the 3rd - 10th May 2008 and will sail from Venice calling at ports around the Mediterranean before returning to Venice.

30 countries will be represented in the main event and amongst those fancied to make an impact include Canada's history-making Mike 'Timex' McDonald, Sweden's 2008 Late Night Poker winner Andreas Jorbeck, Brazil's Christian Kruel, Danish sensation Soeren Kongsgaard, Germany's Florian Langmann and Alexander Jung and Finland's Mika Paasonen. The line-up is a united nations of next generation poker talent.

The ship, the MSC Poesia, is a state of the art cruise liner packed with facilities and the cabins are now full. On board there will be restaurants, bars, tennis courts, mini golf, pools, spas, discos, a cinema, shopping and more?and not forgetting a massive 24/7 card room.

With the shift to a European route the tournament is now no limit rather than limit but the look and feel of the cruise is the same. Many of the old faces will be back. Mike Sexton will be host and MC, Matt Savage and Dave Lamb are tournament directors and the highly respected Card Player Cruises team that includes Linda Johnson, Mark Tenner and Jan Fisher will be onboard running the poker room.

A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: "The excitement is building ahead of the first ever PartyPoker.com Million to be held in Europe. We estimate a total prize pool of over $1.3 million."

Online qualifiers won a PartyPoker.com Million VI package worth $12,000, comprising $8,200 buy-in for the no limit texas hold'em main event, $2,700 for the accommodation and the cruise and $1,100 spending money.

Previous winners of the PartyPoker.com Million include Kathy Liebert, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Michael Gracz and Mike Schneider. The first PartyPoker.com Million was a huge breakthrough for poker being the first hold'em tournament to offer a $1,000,000 first prize, the first tournament to combine direct buy-ins with online qualifiers and the first to hold its finals on a cruise liner. The result was momentous too, with Kathy Liebert's victory marking the first major tournament win by a woman.

PartyPoker.com is a popular member of PartyGaming Plc's suite of online games that includes PartyCasino.com, PartyBingo.com, PartyBets.com, PartyGammon.com, Gamebookers.com and EmpirePoker.com.

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