InterPoker.com to Host UK Reality Show

Online poker room, InterPoker.com, will film a new “reality” television series in Birmingham, England June 12-19. The InterPoker.com University Poker Clash will give viewers a look at the lives of seventy-one college students competing for a number of prizes, including entries into major poker events and tuition paid by InterPoker pros. The show will be broadcast in the UK on Challenge TV.

Throughout the show, the contestants will receive advice from professional poker players, battle it out in challenges, and, of course, compete at the tables. The prize for the first place winner is a monster: a seat at the 2006 World Series of Poker, a seat at the 2006 Caribbean Poker Classic, and tuition paid by the members of team InterPoker, Kathy Liebert, Robert Varkonyi, and Juha Helppi. The next two finishers will receive a prize almost as good – the same as above except for the WSOP entry.

InterPoker.com spokesman, Peter Marcus, said about the show, “The InterPoker.com University Poker Clash will revolutionize televised poker as we know it. As the University students live together, compare strategies and ultimately match wits and attempt to psychologically derail their opponents, fans of live poker and Survivor-style reality television are in for an exciting ride.”

Online qualifying for the show started this week at InterPoker.com and will continue through May 29.

Originally published March 22, 2006