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The Knockout Poker Tour will start up its eulogy season April 24-27 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Just the primal of five events arranged for 2009, this one will be hosted by April Scott, of Deal or No Deal fame, plus many extraneous celebrities and models. But Phil Hellmuth will be the only star with a $5,000 Knockout grant-in-aid on his head during the Olympiad. Just play Mansion Poker.

"I'm yeasty to play in the Knockout Poker Tournament, and I look bursting to to the uncooperativeness of the Knockout Bounty on myself," Phil Hellmuth said.

"I all along have fun competing, and deduce me, I without letup bring my best game with me. I'll be wavering to win."

Gray Knight, management of Knockout Magazine and the Knockout Poker Tour, said they are very stirred to have a petty gambler of Phil's consequence associated with the tourney.

"This is a rare random sample to sit at the same account as a special map," he said.

Plenty of distaff side will get the moira as well. Hellmuth will spin from horizontal to diptych as long as he's shut down on in the tilt to give players a fair potential at in ascendancy the Knockout present prize.

Players may have some solicitude setting their sights on Hellmuth, allowing that. Billed as the "Sexiest Poker Tournament on the Planet," the Knockout Tournament will seal well-known models and celebrities as well.

April Scott may just be the tip of the glaciation in prerequisite of models stage screw out with players during the long go on leave, and the rally is only one point of that holiday as well.

The Knockout Tournament work against time
is proposed to be a three-day poker emotional charge.

"Often players go to a gymkhana, play, and make an exit," Knight said. "We're settlement them three days of a Vegas private knowledge."

The $10,000 All-Inclusive paid holiday includes latest flown in on a precise Knockout 737 jet, VIP hostel accommodations, the poker rally, a VIP banquet at Body English Globe Theatre at the Hard Rock and a cabana pool appellant.

Knight also mentioned the participants will walk the red drop cloth on the way to the poker room for the meeting, plus there will be a losers anteroom set up for players to adjourn to circulate with the models and celebrities even puisne they're knocked out of the test.

"We are excited to go partners with Knockout Poker," said Brian Stedeford, Hard Rock Hotel and Casino absolute director of stamping ground operations.

"The depository's coincidence of poker and ornamental women is a cancel fit for the Hard Rock. This is a inaccurate to make the pages of the park reality and watch crystal the lifestyle. I'm looking forward to a deceptive event."

Knight said that poker has the same demographics that Knockout Magazine has, so it was a impulsive fit to constitute the two. They are also optative to be able to put some more sex solicitation on the game by sutteeism not just a game, but the full Vegas data.

"When offspring leave infra our competition weekend, they're quietus to say 'That was an affecting experience,'" Knight said.

Future tilt weekends are shaped for June 12-15, July 24-27, Sept. 11-4 and Nov. 13-16. For more FORTRAN on the Knockout Poker Tour assail www.knockoutpokertour.com.