Vega Promotional Systems announced that they will produce The All Star Transcontinental Challenge, in which eight poker professionals will compete for $1,000,000 in gold. Eight single-table tournaments will be held at four venues: a yacht off the coast of Monte Carlo, the Orient Express, a jet to Las Vegas, and a Las Vegas casino. They are planning to film in November and air eight hours of programming in the US during the first quarter of 2008.
It troubles me that they'd prefer to create another poker-based game show instead of filming the real high-stakes poker that's played all over the world every day. That's what you get when poker TV is produced by people who aren't interested in poker who assume that no one else is either.
Sunday, July 01, 2007
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They now claim they're launching a Latin American Poker Tour. As the company has no operations or assets, I'm skeptical. See http://urlbrief.com/edf8f3
ReplyDeleteThey announced the schedule for a Poker Tour of the Americas, with five events from South to North America:
ReplyDeleteVega is the Executive Producer of the video programming and plans to air the tournaments throughout North and South America. Since Vega will also own the programming rights, the Company is currently negotiating for network airtime that would in turn allow the Company to sell its own advertising for the programs.