Current WBF world champion will be at London’s Poker In The Park festival in September and fans can vie for the chance to go toe-to-toe in a live showdown.
Friday 23rd July 2010
This autumn’s Poker In The Park festival is set to give fans of poker and boxing the chance to go toe-to-toe against current WBF world champion Evander ‘Real Deal’ Holyfield through a series of Beat The Champ ring games.
Organised by leading publication Bluff Europe, Poker In The Park is Europe’s largest poker event and is set to take place over September 2 and 3 from London’s Leicester Square with well over 20,000 fans expected to attend.
A big fan of poker, Holyfield will be in attendance at the fourth annual event to help demonstrate the software behind innovative site RealDealPoker.com, which replicates a live game by replacing the customary random number generator with actual cards.
The American boxer earned his ‘Real Deal’ nickname after winning multiple championships in both the heavyweight and cruiserweight divisions and warrants a place in sports history after defeating the likes of Mike Tyson, George Foreman and Larry Holmes. The 47-year-old also took home a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division at the 1984 Summer Olympics and holds a professional record of 42 wins with 27 knock-outs for only ten defeats and two draws.
Players hoping to take on Holyfield in person can begin by working their way through a series of online qualifying rounds starting from the lightweight division. Successful competitors will then progress to a heavyweight final where the winner will receive the chance to go heads-up via a live showdown on September 2 from Leicester Square.
“We are thrilled to have a superstar like Evander on board for Poker In The Park,” said Michael Caselli, Editor-In-Chief for Bluff Europe.
“We’re used to having the most famous players in poker drop by but Evander’s presence really illustrates the synergy between poker and mainstream sports and the exciting growth of poker in general.”
