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Any way the cards are cut, Extreme Poker is a thriller...
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.
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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, hell 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 refuelling, 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 Finlands city of Kemi.
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