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Buffer Battles WPT Poker Pros on the Travel Channel Wed. June 1st

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WPT Invitational Season IIIThe annual WPT all-star event is upon us, featuring poker pros rubbing elbows with Hollywood?s hottest and brightest TV and film stars. 238 invited guests, all on a free roll, competing for the $100,000 top prize and a $25,000 seat at the WPT Championship. After a tough qualifying round, these are the six players who survived to the final table:# amateur Bruce Buffer, a sports announcer most famous as the Ultimate Fighting Championship?s ‘Voice of the Octagon’# three-time Swedish poker champ, Johan Storakers, a tough international pro from Stockholm# TV and film actor Tom Everett Scott (‘That Thing You Do’), the first celebrity ever to make an Invitational final table# 2000 World Champion Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson# legendary high-stakes cash-game gambler Chau Giang, this season?s runner-up at Tunica;# another member of the Brenes clan, Alex Brenes, in his first WPT final table, an unprecedented third for the family in the same season. So grab the remote and set up shop, you won?t want to miss the action this week on the WPT…

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