Poker Fuse – Full Tilt Poker announced the creation of “Full Tilt Poker Pro Battle“, a new television show which gives online qualifiers from the Commonwealth of Independent States and the Baltics the opportunity to go heads up against FTP Professional Gus Hansen.
Qualifiers will battle against professional poker players including Team PokerStars Pros Alexander Kravchenko, Ivan Demidov, Maksin Lykon and Eugene Katchalov for a total prize pool of $150,000.
Full Tilt will be awarding 12 prize packages worth over $3,000 to bring players on set in Kiev, where the show will be shot.
The overall winner of the season will nab $35k for first place and then find themselves across the felt from Hansen in a $100,000 heads up showdown.
“We love finding more ways to bring poker to the masses,” Sarne Lightman, FTP’s Head of Marketing notes, “and the Full Tilt Poker Pro Battle does just that.”
Online qualifiers from the CIS/Baltic region can satellite or buy directly into one of 11 qualifying tournaments from October 13 through November 10. Players can also qualify through a series of freerolls for the 12th prize package. The freerolls are ongoing at Full Tilt as of October 7.
