NBA Meets Poker in Jeju

NBA Meets Poker in Jeju
There will be some NBA players playing poker including Dennis Rodman. Sang H. Park, CEO of Phoenix Entertainment said, “Our goal is to make Jeju a gambling mecca...we want to bring the biggest tournaments here...WSOP [World Series of Poker], Poker Stars, Red Dragon, we already signed up WPT [World Poker Tour] and ATP [Asian Poker Tour]. We want to bring the big tournaments to Jeju.” '“We already signed a major deal with Beijing Ourgame Ltd - they took over from Hangame in China with over 300 million users. They held the first China WPT tournament last year and they are going to hold another one in Hainan this October. The top 250 people [from there] will come to Jeju to compete in the first Jeju tour event [in December],” said Park. “With that in mind we are going to open our first small tournament on May 30 at the Ramada Casino - The Phoenix Game - and invite Dennis Rodman and eight other NBA players,” he said. Non-Korean poker punters are free to “buy in.” “You have to buy in so whatever their needs, they can complete. 150 people will be the max...we are building a special casino room for the event,” he said. NBA players set to play include Gary Payton, Horace Grant, Charles Oakley, Nick Van Exel, Trevor Davis, and Dale Evans. “With those guys you never know until the last minute, but they are doing a reality show in China [with FOX TV and WPT] so we feel very confident.. but you never know with the top guys, they might change their mind on the last day,” Park said. Rodman is the headline act. The presence of the NBA is a nice lead in to the WPT event in December.
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