[BBP Guru]

Anybody heard about the $10 Million Dollar buy-in tournament? It's going to be the biggest televised poker deal ever. The first show is scheduled for Wednesday July 12, 2006 with 6 participants. Rumours are that Phil Ivey and Barry Greenstein will be playing.
Read More: http://mansionpoker.net/FSN-announcement.pdf

[UofTNick]

I was actually going to enter this, but I already have that day booked, so I'm going to have to pass.

But seriously, that is a ridiculous amount of money. Are they going to be able to find 6 participants willing to risk $10 million?

If they do, I would definitely love to see it. That would be the most intense poker tournament of all time for sure.

[beriac]

The interesting thing is, are the people who have and wish to spend $10 million on a buy-in the same people who are the best at poker? It almost seems more likely that a Bill Gates-type would be more likely to play something like that than a pro poker player, who can enter tourneys with much less personal risk.

Then again, I guess they could get staked, or if it was going to be lots of Bill Gates-types, that would make it attractive to a pro who could get the cash.

[AGreen]

During the WSOP I saw Negreanu interviewed and he said that the Main Event should be more like this, a really worthy entry fee. The $10k can be put up by a lot more rookies and satellites. I think he suggested it be a $1 Million buy in, maybe it was half a million.

[guitarizt]

No way, that's what makes the wsop so great. Anyone can play. $10k isn't chump change!

[bigfatbluffa]

is this the wsop or a different trny? know what channel?