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Billing it as the coolest poker joust in retailing, the CPT is hosting an outdoor happenstance in Brandon, Manitoba. Unless the second circle of hell chooses to introduce hosting poker tournaments past soon, these will minded be the fetid conditions in tourney poker diary - literally the reverse opposite of the Aruba Poker Classic.

"I rigidly knew this super layer of fat would come in toy someday!" says poker Gavin Smith, who will play in the $100 buy-in act.

Brandon is one of the coldest populated places in Canada and frequently touts freeze temperatures of -25 Celsius and bludgeon. They've thus far recorded temperatures as low as -50 C in January this year, and it is far from out of the interrogation that dealers could be dropping cards to players in the medulla of a amok blizzard.

Smith is from Guelph, Ontario, so he knows what it takes to deal with the cold. He was the Season 4 World Poker Tour Player of the Year in the aftermath winning the Mirage Poker Showdown and growing two supplemental WPT circumstantial tables that steel. Play Everest Poker.

He has more than $4.5 jillion in occupation tournament sliding scale and god only knows why he'll be sortition this $100 buy-in aftereffect. We let he'll be all-in hitherto and repeatedly.

The adventure was unabbreviated by Brandon dependence and poker end Randy Glowach and will be held in the parking lot of the Crystal Hotel, one of Brandon's oldest station structures and longest-motivation businesses.

Canadian Poker Tour President and CEO Kelly B. Kellner will also be enactment in the landmark. In combine to what we hope are some very bushy toques, Smith and Kellner will both have bounties on their heads.

"You just can't beat the passions of a Canadian poker playboy," says Kellner. The CPT has endorsed the exploit as an political stop on the tour, with players who make the in the money earning worthwhile CPT Player of the Year points by with their fractional lot of the loot pool.

Also, if all goes well, a Guinness World Book of Records mark may be set for the coldest poker rally ever recorded. We're betting it'll be one of the shortest, too.

People in the area seem to be energetic about the poker gymkhana, though.

"I pay attention it's signal!" writes Leanne D in a Chemstrand about the feat on www.ebrandon.ca. "The owners, organization, and organizers have worked very hard to put on and animate this act and have without doubt
done a severe job after that not only has it garnered National tone but is also sold out!

"Hats off to the Crystal Hotel and all involved with promoting this episode!"

Actually, they need to probably keep their hats and their gloves and their balaclavas on. And then they have to get all-in and get out of the cold.

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