PokerHeaven.com’s Televised “Online Series of Poker” Brings Internet Poker Tournaments to Prime Time Television

Pokerheaven.com utilizes cutting edge technology and their partnership with The Poker Channel to launch their first ever televised Online Series of Poker. The winner of this event will walk away with a free trip to Paris and to represent pokerheaven.com in the World Poker Tour Event taking place in June.

(PRWEB) March 9, 2006 -- Pokerheaven.com in a partnership with The Poker Channel, Sky Channel 844 has brought online poker tournaments to prime time television. Pokerheaven.com in partnership with The Poker Channel, Sky Channel 844, has brought online poker tournaments to prime time television! Beginning in February and running through to April 24th, pokerheaven.com has been host to one of the most successful internet poker promotions in the world. The Online Series of Poker utilizes cutting edge technology to produce this televised event. The events in this Online Series of Poker are recorded and broadcast on television with the players hole cards being exposed. More interesting is that pokerheaven.com has made all of the events freerolls, meaning that the entry fee for pokerheaven.com players is free. The winner of this prestigious series will be awarded a seat to the 2006 World Poker Tour event taking place in Paris in June.

The Online Series of Poker is broadcast every Saturday night at 10 p.m. on The Poker Channel, Sky Channel 844. The series consists of 11 freeroll tournaments in which the top 5 finishers from each qualifier will compete in the main event on April 24th, 2006. The winner of this televised main event will claim a free trip and entry to the World Poker Tour event taking place in Paris.

In an interview with Grant Williams of pokerheaven.com he stated, “The response to this promotion has been overwhelming. We knew that the televised online events would draw a great deal of attention and new players to pokerheaven.com, but not to this extent. The idea of being able to play in an online event and then watch the tournament a few days later on television has sparked the interest of poker players everywhere.”

Pokerheaven.com is one of the leading internet poker websites in Europe. Pokerheaven.com is best known to U.S. players for its loose action and soft games. They are also one of a very few poker websites in the world with the technology to broadcast live feeds directly to television networks such as The Poker Channel. To get more information or to play in the “Online Series of Poker,” visit http://www.pokerheaven.com.

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