Michael Phelps Is Going To Play Some Poker!

You heard it right, actually, the eight gold medals in swimming (by the way, congratulations with your eight one) and a new world record holder (eight gold medals) in swimming is active poker player! And before going back to USA from Beijing, Asian Poker Tour (APT) is inviting Michael to stop in Macau to play poker before going back to USA.

Michaels members from Team U.S.A actually mentioned, that Michael Phelps often sits in front of computer playing online poker for hours, when of course he has a free time. Michael is very enthusiastic and is willing totry himself at WSOP. “My game is a little off right now. But I think that would be cool, and it would be cool to meet some of those poker guys.”

He definitely could take that chance, if he accepts invitation from Asian Poker Tour and plays in Macau, on his way home. In addition, it’s not a big wait, APT in Macau will take place at the Galaxy StarWorld Hotel and Casino Resort Aug. 27-31 and guarantees a pool prize worth $1,5 millions, which guarantees $500,000 cash prize for first place (largest in Asia till now by the way). The buy-in is $5,300 ( don’t think money is problem for Michael though) and has a large list of pros, who are attending this tour.

In addition, many online players, are willing to try attend in APT from all over the world!For qualification, they just needed to win some tours at online poker sites FullTiltPoker.com and some other sites.