NAPP Tour Reschedules Tournament Play for September at Hollywood Park & Casino
Monday May 22, 1:19 pm ET
LAS VEGAS, May 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The NAPP Tour has announced that the inaugural tour stop slated for May 8-19, 2006 in Hollywood Park, CA will be rescheduled for September 11-21, 2006. The series of international tournaments with a guaranteed $2M prize pool will feature the best of the best in the poker world.
The tournament was rescheduled to eliminate a 3-month break between the inaugural event and the remainder of the tour calendar. "In evaluating the best interest of the players and the tour it was determined that the tour should run as a continuous and smooth season and not be scheduled around the World Series of Poker," comments NAPP Tour COO & President, Wade Mezey.
With its high-stakes competition, national reach, and the commitment of over 50 of the world's best players, the NAPP Tour will launch in September 2006 as the first professional, standardized poker tour, with a limited number of qualified competitors in each of its main events building up toward a multi-million dollar championship. The NAPP Tour has recruited such first- rate championship players as Annie Duke, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Mike Matusow, and Layne Flack, among dozens of other top players.
NAPP Tour, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Hansen Gray & Company, Inc. (OTC: HGCP - News), is an event management and television production company that promotes, manages, hosts and televises the NPA Tour's professional poker tournaments.
The NPA Tour is a global membership organization of professional poker players. This mission of the NPA Tour is to increase financial benefits to its players while maintaining its commitment to the integrity of the game.
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