Poker fans pay attention! Vienna’s Concord Card Casino rings in on Wednesday 5^th of March, the poker spring. The popular Spring Poker Festival stands on the program and has to offer some Highlights until the 16^th of March.

 

One of these Highlights is certainly the East vs. West € 60.000 Freeroll. With this east west poker duel which is played on the 9^th of March, ten players fight at the final table for € 37.500 as well as other € 22.500 for the winner's team. Last year Tony G (team East) and Dave Devilfish Ulliott (team west) took over in each case the role of the team captain and both have announced their participation for this years Spring Poker Festival as well.

Naturally are also expected a whole row of German and native poker professionals in the Austrian capital. Besides, Michael Keiner, Andreas Krause, concentrate Cort Kibler-Melby, Markus Golser, Siggi Stockinger and Stefan Rapp, first of all, on the four-day-long European Challenge which begins on the 11^th of March.

The Main Event with the Buy-In of € 3.000+150 called 206 poker players at the tables in the CCC last year and the price pool was a total of € 618.000. German Pro Andreas Krause (€ 95.910 price money) placed second that time and was only beaten by the Croat Branimir Brunovic (€ 191.960). The best Austrian was Dieter Wagenknecht who ended in ninth place (€ 13.180).

This year, Tony G and the Devilfish will draw other big international names such as Alex Kravchenko (Final Table the World Series Of Poker Main Event in 2007), due the total price pool of over 1.3 million Euros (This includes ten tournaments) the Spring Poker Festival moulted into one of the biggest European events in 2008. To ensure a successful poker tournament, Thomas Kremser and Jonathan Lütkenhorst are going to manage this great Spring Poker Festival as any other poker tournament. So, that we might see a new Main Event winner besides Sweden’s Philip Yeh and the Canadian Sorel Mizzi.