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
