Tony G

I noticed a new blurb on the JPPA page today - European poker champion Tony G will be coming to Japan early in November, and will be playing in several tournament games at the JPPA Ueno poker room. This should be interesting, so I am planning to go at least one of the days he'll be playing.

There will be games on Nov 3, 4, and 5. Thursday, Nov 3 is a national holiday, so it should be easy to go then. Friday's game is the Friday night Everest Poker sponsored game, and Saturday is the regular JPPA event. There will be a bounty on Tony G for each event to make things interesting.

Each person to knock him out in the three games (assuming he is knocked out, I assume) will get an iPod Shuffle and t-shirt from the Japanese translation web page for Poker News. But, if you manage to knock him out in two consecutive games, you win a trip to Las Vegas and free entry into the Five Diamond World Poker Classic $1500 event on December 4, including airfare and 3 nights stay at the Bellagio. Whoa.

And if you manage to knock him out in all three games, you win a trip to Las Vegas and free entry into the Five Diamond World Poker Classic $15000 event on December 12, including airfare and 3 nights stay at the Bellagio. Count the zeroes there, folks!

I'm planning on going to at least one of the games and giving it a try. I have almost no chance to win, but the "pot odds" are so rich I have to at least give it a shot. And I imagine Tony G may be giving some poker talks or discussion, and it will be worth it just to meet him and see what he has to say. Should be fun.