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The Poker Grapevine – Liz Lieu Signed by ISPT
Posted by: James Carter. - Wed, 2012-09-05 10:42
The ISPT has long been doubted by specialists and for a while in the beginning, the people behind the International Stadiums Poker Tour were indeed suspiciously quiet about the whole initiative. That is no longer the case these days though. The ISPT keeps announcing one major poker pro signing after another. After Michael Mizrachi and Sam Trickett, the company has now secured the services of Liz Lieu. Liz Lieu’s signing was announced on Tuesday.
She said she was interested in representing the ISPT due to the immense amount of exposure and good rap the event was likely to generate for the game of poker. Beyond the historic nature of the first ISPT event, Lieu said she wanted all potential players to know that it would be tons of fun as well.
The ISPT’s first event will take place on May 31 in the Wembley Stadium in London. Organizers expect 30,000 players to show up. If their expectations are indeed met, the event will go down in history as the largest ever live poker event organized anywhere.
In other news: on Monday, the Partouche Poker Tour kicked off in Cannes, on the French Riviera. On the first of two day 1 flights, 325 players bellied up to the tables. 155 of these players managed to advance to day 2. The player who finished with the largest stack was Marcello Marigliano, who managed to amass 187.3k chips. Marigliano was followed by Kristijonas Andrulis. Michael Mizrachi finished the €8.5k event in 6th place behind a very healthy stack. Justin Bonomo, Jason Mercier, Pius Heinz and Jonathan Duhamel were among the survivors as well.
In still other news: iPoker went ahead and successfully divided its player pool as planned, creating a top and a secondary tier for its skins.
William Hill,
Poker 770 and
Titan Poker are all in the top tier, among other skins. The logic behind the move was to put the smaller sites in a position in which they attract more seasoned sharks instead of recreational players.
