888 Poker has announced a Celebrity Challenges series of multi table poker tournaments, offering players the opportunity to win some fantastic guaranteed prize pools, plus an additional $100.00 bounty if players are able to knock out the featured celebrity – all for a buy-in of just 88 cents.
888 Poker Launches Celebrity Challenges
888 Poker has announced a Celebrity Challenges series of multi table poker tournaments, offering players the opportunity to win some fantastic guaranteed prize pools, plus an additional $100.00 bounty if players are able to knock out the featured celebrity – all for a buy-in of just 88 cents.
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Top Online Poker Celebrities Take Part
Many of 888 Poker´s high profile celebrities will be taking part in the “Challenges” series, including Australian cricketer Shane Warne, England´s fast bowling enigma Jimmy Anderson, Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Santiago Canizares and November Niner, Sam Holden. Also included in the celebrity line up are Tyler Bonkowski, a Canadian professional poker player who is currently running deep in the EPT San Remo Main Event, Sky Sports News presenter Charlotte Jackson and Soccer AM presenter Helen Chamberlain. All seven celebrities will be playing on a Pokercam, so you will be able to see them live and watch for their tells.
Challenges Run Throughout November
The program of seven challenge tournaments starts on 2nd November with Jimmy Anderson and runs all the way through to 29th November, when Charlotte Jackson will be the last celebrity to be put up for a bounty. The games are scheduled to commence at different times throughout the evenings to enable everybody to have a crack at taking down a celebrity, but there is no limit to how many tournaments players are allowed to enter. The full program of events (and the names to look out for) is listed below.
| Date | Time (GMT) | Celebrity/Online Name | Bounty | Guarantee |
| Wed 2 Nov | 8.00pm | Jimmy Anderson / “Janderson9” | $100.00 | $2,000 |
| Wed 9 Nov | 7.00pm | Santiago Canizares / “Canizares888” | $100.00 | $3,000 |
| Wed 16 Nov | 1.00am | Tyler Bonkowski / “Bonkman5” | $100.00 | $1,000 |
| Thu 17 Nov | 8.00pm | Helen Chamberlain / “HellsBellsy” | $100.00 | $1,000 |
| Fri 18 Nov | 8.00pm | Sam Holden / “Sam_Holden” | $100.00 | $2,000 |
| Fri 25 Nov | 9.00pm | Shane Warne / “Warne888” | $100.00 | $3,000 |
| Tue 29 Nov | 7.00pm | Charlotte Jackson / “Charlottejac” | $100.00 | $1,000 |
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