Women’s World Open III continues in London.
The popular Matchroom Sport organized tournament sees 36 players from around the world battle it out for a $108,000 prize pool in the $3,000 buy-in event and runs until Wednesday 27th May. The winner takes home a cool $50,000. Live reporting can be found at: http://www.matchroompokerforum.co.uk/ VOTE MIKE SEXTON FOR POKER’S HALL OF FAME! AMBASSADOR OF POKER DESERVES 2009 INDUCTION A PartyPoker.com spokesman said: “We encourage the poker community to vote online for Mike Sexton’s induction into Poker’s Hall of Fame. Mike famously said that poker takes five minutes to learn and a lifetime to master – it takes five minutes to vote and mark the lifetime achievement of the master! Mike meets all the criteria and deserves to be top of the list when the process gets to the Hall of Fame committee.” Inaugural WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad has already expressed her intention to vote for Mike. Â ”I may be from a different generation of poker players to Mike but in my mind he deserves induction into poker’s hall of fame this year.”
recently renewed its association with Mike, who will act as a host, consultant, ambassador and player. Â Sexton needs little introduction and is unarguably one of the most respected figures in the game. As the face and voice of the World Poker Tour and holder of a WSOP bracelet, Mike is truly one of the games pioneers. Sexton is in the top ten for the most cashes at the World Series of Poker and is instantly recognizable to all poker enthusiasts. Regarded as ‘The Ambassador of Poker,’ for years Mike advocated corporate involvement with poker to take the game he loves into the mainstream. Notably, Sexton also won the first $10k buy-in NL hold’em championship event at Foxwoods World Poker Finals in 1992 and in 2000 was the first American to win the championship event at the Euro Finals of Poker in Paris, which at the time was the biggest event in Europe.