| | Excellent Online Casinos News Archive| Reality Television Star Gets Poker Tourney Post | | | Publication Date: 1 Feb 2007 | | A leading online casinos poker room is sponsoring the Asian Poker Classic, one of the most popular and famous poker tournaments held annually. The online casino is set to capitalize on Shilpa Shetty’s success on the UK reality television show, Celebrity Big Brother. The online casinos group has invited the actress to present the Asian Poker Classic, which will take place in Goa on March 1st – 5th, 2007. This will be the biggest poker tourney ever staged in India.
‘We don’t yet know how much longer she'll be in the Big Brother house but she’s already become the star of the series. We’ll be contacting her as soon as she comes out to ask if she’ll be involved in the Asian Poker Classic,’ said the Director of Events for the online casinos poker room sponsored tourney, Minaxshi Shah. Bollywood actress Shetty has become even more famous with her high profile role on Celebrity Big Brother in the past few weeks. According to the online casinos group, she is the perfect candidate to host the US 1 million dollar Asian Poker Classic.
The Asian Poker Classic is the first major professional poker tournament to be held in India and will include online casinos poker players who have won US 7,500 dollar prize packages through satellite tournaments held at the online casinos site. More than 200 players are expected to take part in the special event. This event will surely help bring this popular international game a great deal of attention in India.
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