VC Poker Cup 2005: Press Release

Britain’s top poker playing celebrities are heading down to Teddington Studios this week to do battle with world’s best professional players for a share of the £500,000 prize pool on offer at the 2005 VC Poker Cup.

Taking place between 1-5 August, the 2005 VC Poker Cup will feature big name celebrities including colourful racing pundit John McCririck, Celebrity Love Island star Michael Greco, football legends Teddy Sheringham, Tony Cascarino and Richard Hughes together with former World Snooker Champion, Ken Doherty.

Bookmaking legend Victor Chandler will also be playing following a successful 2004 event which saw him knock out Marcel Luske, one of the world’s foremost professional players.

“The VC Poker Cup is a truly great event for all poker players” said Victor Chandler, “I really enjoyed playing in last year’s event and am looking forward to taking on some of the biggest names in the game again this year.”

Now in it’s second the year the VCPoker Cup is again set to take the Poker world by storm. Instantly hailed by players and media alike as a breakthrough in televised poker, the 2004 tournament produced some of the finest poker ever seen on UK soil before Londoner Harry Demetriou prevailed to take the £250,000 first prize.

This year’s tournament will be shown as a series of 7x1 hour programmes on Sky Sports starting this September.

Teddy Sheringham, John McCririck and Michael Greco (Photo courtesy of VC)

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