Dublin (PRWEB) August 8, 2006 -- Thursday 10 August sees the end game of the richest and largest poker tournament in history. Nine players will have battled through a field of 8,773 players who paid $10,000 each to participate in the prestigious World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event.
Irish bookmaker Paddy Power has seen phenomenal interest in betting on this year's event. With 21 markets to choose from punters have been piling on thousands of bets and such has been demand that the bookie plans at least three betting in running markets on the final table which will be televised and broadcast on the internet live for the first time on ESPN pay-per-view (www.espnppv.com).
There will be both an ‘outright winner' market and a ‘next player gone' market as well as a ‘winning hand' market available at www.paddypower.com.
Spokesman for the 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."
The final table begins at around 8pm (BST) on Thursday evening and has the potential to last through the night as the players battle it out for the $12 million first prize. Everyone at the final table is guaranteed at least $1 million.
Paddy Power Poker is providing live updates on how the Irish are faring – including paddypowerpoker.com online qualifiers - at the World Series courtesy of ‘Antes Up' Tom Murphy who will be sending running reports on the progress of the event each day at www.paddypowerpoker.com/wsop.
Note: Paddy Power does not accept bets from the US
For more information please contact:
Brendan Murray
Paddy Power Poker Communications Manager
Tel: 00 353 1 488 1759
Mob: 00 353 87 916 6000
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