IPPA announces $250.000 buy-in tournement

The International Poker Players Association (IPPA) just announced a $250.000 buy-in tournement played between November 29th and December 2nd in Monte Carlo. Only 48 players can play this tournement which has a total prizepool of $12,000,000 and a first prize of $5,000,000.

Yosh Nakano of IPPA:
“We wanted to produce a high-end poker tournament that offered a big buy-in event with quality play. We felt that we could do a good job at putting an event together that would provide the best all-around player in the world.”

Players that are interested to play this tournement so far: Johnny Chan, Freddy Deeb, Tony G, Bruno Fitoussi, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius,Allen Cunningham, Gus Hansen, John Hennigan, Phil Ivey, Huck Seed, Robert Mizrachi and 2010 November Niner Michael Mizrachi.