Angus Gairdner, Director of Broadcast at The Poker Channel said “We were approached by the team from FindMePoker about providing them with a news service and marketing exposure and we felt that they had an innovative product which would sit well with our audience and the general online gaming market.”

To help settle their nerves and get them relaxed ahead of what will be long periods at the table The Poker Channel invited the players to attend the traditional “Players Dinner” at the Soho Hotel in London’s World famous West End. With a few players flights arriving late, 7 of the 11 were able to attend the 3 course dinner together with two lucky VIP trip winners who had entered a competition in the London Evening Standard.

Leo Margets (pictured) was not only the Last Women Standing at this year’s World Series of Poker, but she is also the first woman to take part in the PokerHeaven.com European Cash Game – and The Poker Channel was delighted that she was able to attend the dinner. Also in attendance was last year’s winner Eric Liu – who dispite the jet lag was in good spirits and looking to place a wager on anything at the dinner, and was last spotted heading into Soho to find somewhere to watch the NFL. Let’s hope he managed to get some sleep ahead of today’s filming.

Remember you can watch the PokerHeaven.com European Cash Game here live from 1300 CET today.

The Poker Channel has announced details of their live webcast of the PokerHeaven.com European Cash Game 2. Available to viewers across the World the webcast will be broadcast for 13 hours uninterrupted on Monday 14th September. This year’s event features some big names as well as up and coming cash game specialists. Chris White, Commercial Director from The Poker Channel said “It’s fantastic that we’ve managed to get Eric Liu and Andy Black to come back again and take part in Season 2, they were great value at the table and Eric’s victory in season 1 last year set the tone for this high stakes series.”

With players buying in for €10,000 each, the action at the table, as with last year, will be fascinating. Angus Gairdner, Director of Broadcast at The Poker Channel said “We were keen to broadcast this year’s event live – webcasting from events is something we have trialled with some of our other partners recently, with great success, but this is the first time we have produced live web coverage of one of our own commissioned events and we a thoroughly looking forward to giving our viewers and site users access to this first class TV production.”

The event is again being produced by poker production experts Emblaze Productions and will be available online here from 1300 CET.
The player line up includes: -

Jens Kyllonen – Finland

Andy Black – Northern Ireland

Eric Liu – USA

Leo Margets – Spain

Ricardo Sousa – Portugal

Andreas Hoivold – Norway

Bruno Fitoussi – France

Simon Munz – Germany

Ludovic Laclay – France

*Full list of players to be confirmed.

Click here to watch the PokerHeaven.com European Cash Game Season 2 LIVE on Monday 14th September from 1300 CET

Key player profiles

Andy Black

• Born 1965 – Belfast, Northern Ireland

• While studying for a law degree he started playing poker

• Knocked out of the 1997 WSOP Main Event by eventual winner Stu Ungar

• Lived as a monk for five years

• Highest WSOP main event finish was 5th in 2005

• Tournament winnings total more than $4.1 million

• 16 wsop cash finishes totalling $2,189,351

Leo Margets

• full name Leonor Margets-Perez

• From Barcelona

• Last woman standing at the 2009 WSOP Main Event finishing in 27th place

• All time earnings – $375,264

• 2009 only her second year as a pro and she has earned $372,993 this year alone.

Bruno Fitoussi

• President of VIP-Gaming

• From Paris

• Tournament winnings – $ 2,355,383

• 3rd on Frances all time money list for poker players

• Finished 15th in 2003 WSOP main Event

• In woo1 he won the world heads up championship beating Amarillo Slim to take the title

• He also works as an architect

Jens Kyllonen

• From Helsinki

• Started playing poker fulltime once he completed his army national service

• In February 2009 he won the Pokerstars EPT Scandinavian Open, Copenhagen taking home $ 1,120,815

• $1,253,250 total winnings

Sammy George

• Nickname “any two” as he will literally play any two cards

• $ 43,245 Tournament winnings

• Will take on Tom Durrr Dwan in a heads up challenge soon

More player profiles coming soon

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