Inter Poker.com's unique and innovative marketing vehicle Extreme
Poker has to be one of the biggest attractions around in online poker,
with previous games by top players taking place underwater and on
freezing Arctic icefields. This year it's literally going to take
off to new heights with a sky-high game that will also be a real downer
for the losers.
We're talking Loser's Leap here, where international champions like
Phil "Unabomber" Laak and Scott Fischman, together with
four more players still to be named will clamber aboard an airplane
for a really high stakes game. Climbing to an altitude of 10,000 feet
over Las Vegas (where else?) the competitors will play Texas Hold
'Em with some unique penalties - when a player is knocked out of the
game, he’ll be tossed out of the plane. Wearing a parachute,
hopefully!
The last player left aboard is the winner of the tournament.
Details of Loser's Leap are still being planned, but the flying table
will include one or more persons who will earn their place through
Web qualifiers at InterPoker.com. The tournament will last until someone
has all the chips — and the plane to himself — or when
the plane has to return for base for refueling, whichever is the sooner.
Juha Helppi won the first Extreme Poker challenge, barely beating
out Laak before his tank of air ran out at a table sitting on the
bottom of the Caribbean. This winter, Robert Varkonyi, the 2002 World
Series of Poker main event champion, won the next Extreme Poker Challenge
- sleeveless, to boot - on an ice shelf near Finland’s city
of Kemi.