For those Americans who don't have a chance to head across the Atlantic to see the European Poker Tour in action, it's pretty hard to see some of the great poker television that comes from that part of the world. Saturday, CBS viewers will finally get their chance and it's all for a worthy cause. For the next two Saturdays, the CBS network will be airing an hour's worth of coverage from the EPT's Ante Up For Africa Monte Carlo tournament. Tons of celebrities showed up for event, including some top PokerStars Team Pros. "Each year at the World Series
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Ante Up For Africa Monte Carlo hits CBS tomorrow
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Isabelle Mercier wins PokerStars' Ante Up for Africa
While it was a day of great glamour, drama and sportsmanship, and a day that Isabelle Mercier will remember for a long, long time having secured victory, PokerStars' Ante Up for Africa tournament will go down in the history books for another very good reason - raising more than 250,000...more
Ante Up for Africa: Action from the tournament floor
This page will be updated throughout PokerStars' Ante Up for Africa event here in Monte Carlo. Celebrities have joined some of poker's greats in a 39-strong field, with each of the 4,000 euro buy-ins going to help the relief effort in Darfur. Each player began with 10,000 chips, but the...more
PokerStars' Ante Up for Africa in pictures
While our celebrity and pro players settle into their seats in the main tournament room, here's a look at how our man behind the lens, Neil Stoddart, has captured them using some very expensive looking pieces of equipment. Whatever he uses, Neil's results are always quite spectacular. Have a scroll...more
Ante Up for Africa: Stars take to the poker stage
Walk around Monte Carlo and the chances are you'll rub shoulders with someone rich or famous. Business tycoons, actors, Formula One racing drivers, and Royalty - all live and prosper in the small principality of Monaco. Had you by chance been in the tournament area of the Monte Carlo Bay...more
PokerStars' Ante Up for Africa reveals poker's heart of gold
As you arrive in Monaco, driven in a gravity-defying manner along winding mountain roads that have the comfort of a wall of rock on one side but a terrifying 1,000-metre drop on the other, you can almost smell the money. This place has more millionaires per square foot than almost...more
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