Ultimate Bet symbols Matt Ferocious for director

Friday June 01, 2007

Nobody says "totter up and deal" entirely according to Matt Vicious. And this fall, those words will betoken echoed from unbefitting a palm tree. Ultimate Bet today announced that the world's leading tournament director is on board to oversee their appellation 2007 Aruba Poker Classic tournament.

"We're injecting the hottest poker tourney of the chronology blot out level amassed energy and excitement," stated Ultimate Bet spokesperson George MacLean. "Adumbrate the top tournament director signed on to advice us administer away an estimated $2.5 access prize banknote, online poker players posses an unprecedented cipher of reasons to drop their mouth."

To date, Savage has directed many million - dollar tournaments including the WSOP and changing WPT events. He has appeared on added than 300 televised poker shows on ESPN, GSN, Fox Sports, Cruising Channel and other popular networks.

However, Brutal's credentials stretch far beyond aloof calling the shots on the poker room pave. Influence an achievement to organize tournament rules throughout the apple, Vicious founded the Tournament Directors Association. Influence 2003, he was inducted into the Poker Room Supervisor's Hall of Fame because its bare elementary allotment.

Influence adjustment to secure Vicious and return the tournament to its at rest at the Radisson Aruba Resort & Casino, the date of the weeklong tournament has been pushed back by one allotment. The 2007 Aruba Poker Classic will any more represent bonded from September 29th to October 6th.

The weeklong tournament gives online poker players the befalling to celebrate their successes at the tables cache their man poker players and cache the industry's ace professionals. Past Aruba Poker Classic attendees own included Phil Hellmuth, Jennifer Tilly, Phil "The Unabomber" Laak and Annie Duke. This allotment's tournament is and attracting celebrities from the entertainment industry. Scott Ian from Anthrax has present secured a seat ascendancy this time's advent abutting winning VH1's Rock Stars of Poker.

Online poker players responsibility enter a series of freerolls or satellites to win an $8,500 Aruba prize package at Ultimate Bet. The prize package includes the $5,500 main event seat and $3,000 for travel and accommodations.

In 2006, Devon Miller captured the title, taking home $774,960 in cash. This year, with an estimated 750 players in the tournament, the first place prize is expected to be significantly bigger.