Planning a trip to Las Vegas can be daunting.  With 124,270 hotel rooms and 37 local golf courses to choose from, the “city that never sleeps” attracts over 37 million visitors each year.  One of the highest annual influxes is expected this month when poker enthusiasts from around the globe descend on Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the world’s largest poker tournament.

Piggs Peak, home of All Africa Poker has taken its team of 32 Southern African poker players to participate in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.  For the first time, local poker fans will be able to follow the tournament developments through All Africa Poker’s online multi-channel social media marketing strategy.

On the 3rd of July over 6000 thousand poker players will take each other on in the Main Event of the World Series of poker in Las Vegas each dreaming of a 1st prize likely to be in excess of $9 Million. For the first time ever a bookmaker has priced up on who the top South African player will be and Ray Rahme is a 7/1 favourite.

The best local poker action will now be available to viewers for free on eTV.  The All Africa Poker Zone will launch on the free-to-air channel on 7 June.  Sponsored by Piggs Peak Casino, the home of All Africa Poker, the two hour slot will follow the eTV 8pm Sunday movie and is a must-see for poker fans.

The All Africa Poker Channel, DStv’s 24/7 poker channel will broadcast a special edition of its avidly viewed program Ask the Commentators on Wednesday 10 June 2009 at 20h00, featuring guests Tanja Sund, publisher of Bluff magazine and Neil Andrews, sports commentator and host of DStv’s Betting World on Teletrack.

From the 21^st to 24^th May 2009 Piggs Peak Casino Swaziland hosted the R3,500,000 All Africa Poker Tournament, where 48 year old Gaborone father of three, Nicolas Zakhem won the competition, taking home the R1 million prize money. Team all Africa Poker and Zakhem now prepare to leave for Las Vegas this June to participate in the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event Tournament, the world’s largest poker tournament.