Serie A-er Headed to the EPT
Tags: Christian Vieri, European Poker Tour, Inter Milan, poker, Serie A, sponsorship deals
You mean EPL? No, I mean EPT … the European Poker Tour. Apparently Inter’s Christian Vieri has got the Texas Hold’em bug … and plans to play in the EPT’s Championship at Monte Carlo. That’s the big-boy across the pond, and you can only imagine the sharks are happy to add some Serie-A money to the prize pool. At the same time, every so often a world-class competitor on another field surprises the poker-peeps and shows he can play.
Anyhow, Go Poker, Go Soccer, and Go Christian Vieri.
You can pretty much rest assured, with Poker Stars, at a minimum he’ll get a nifty sponsorship deal out of it.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
[...] Ack … I hate that I wrote a hedline that sounds like something out of a PokerStars press release, but not sure how else it could turn out when Italian soccer star Christian Vieri announced his intention to play in the upcoming EPT Championship at Monte Carlo. [...]
April 16th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
This guy has deep pockets. Once held the world record transfer fee in 1999 at 48 million Euros. He’s without a team right now so hopefully he’ll end up at WSOP and bring some Serie A flair to Vegas.