High Heels Poker Tour partners with PokerStars.net
PokerStars.net, which calls itself the world’s largest poker school, announced a sponsorship with South Florida-based High Heels Poker Tour.
The PokerStars sponsorship will include support for HHPT’s growing roster of tournaments; the first of began this month at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino in Verona, N.Y. After New York, the tour heads to South Florida.
The Dania tournament is at 4 p.m. Sept. 12 at Dania Jai-Alai. Buy-in is $125. Tournaments are set for Oct. 2 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino and Oct. 10 at Tampa Bay Downs.
"PokerStars has all of the attributes in a online partner that female players crave: an incredible variety of quick, entertaining games that range from low buy in sit-and-goes and cash games to serious tournament play, all in an environment where women can learn the game, develop their skills, and truly become champions,” High Heels Poker Tour founder Lauren Failla said in a press release. “With champions like Vanessa Rousso, Katja Thater, and Vicky Coren, our players have a whole new set of role models to emulate and challenge, online and at the tables.
In addition to the tour sponsorship, PokerStars.net and HHPT also will collaborate on the HHPT Grand Finale and PokerStars $1000 buy-in ladies event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January 2010.
For more information about HHPT’s upcoming tournament schedule, go to: http://highheelspokertour.com/tournament-schedule.html.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
