PokerTeam.dk team members Christian Grundtvig and Henrik Witt enjoyed a lucrative payday following the Paris World Poker Tour champs at the Aviation Club de France earlier this month; Grundtvig picked up a cheque for Euro 712 500 as the winner, and fourth placed Witt banked Euro 168 750 to add to his salary as a full time poker manager for sponsor Poker Plex.com.
In addition to that large winner’s cheque, Grundtvig received a $25 000 entry package for WPT Championships scheduled for the Bellagio in Vegas in April 2007.
Poker Plex has focused on the players’ interest in tournaments as a marketing tool, with its “My Poker Points”system empowering players to accumulate points every time they play. These can be exchanged as buy-ins in free-roll tournaments, free-roll tournaments for super-satellites for big events, or can even tournament entry fees. A continual series of daily and weekly tournaments and special promotions, and millions of dollars in payouts make for plenty of action at the site, and the company currently plans to sponsor at least 30 seats in the July 15 and 16 World Series of Poker.