Rogue Trader Nick Leeson To Play € 1 Million Guaranteed

Rogue Trader Nick Leeson To…

In 2006 Nick Leeson was appointed CEO of Ireland’s Galway United FC – but most people will be familiar with Leeson not due to football, but rather in relation to the Barings Bank Collapse of 1995. Leeson's role in the collapse of Barings Bank (personal bank to The Queen) is one of the most spectacular and memorable catastrophes in modern financial history. How could one trader bring down the banking empire that had funded the Napoleonic Wars? Whatever happened to that rogue trader?

Rogue Trader Nick Leeson is back – and this time he’s determined to take down the €1000+50 CelebPoker €1M Guaranteed, which runs on 14th December 2008. Following Barings' collapse, Nick Leeson was diagnosed with colon cancer and his wife left him. Leeson has somehow managed to survive the hands life has dealt him, and is now fully recovered from cancer and living happily with his second wife and three children in Ireland.

Nick delivers lectures to financial institutions, banks and businesses around the world. He also addresses universities and has spoken at the Oxford Union, Trinity College Dublin and the University College Cork. Nick is also a published author – one title dedicated to the Barings Bank debacle, the other title “Back from the Brink: Coping with Stress” tells his complete personal story, whilst in-depth conversations with a top psychologist show how the continual levels of stress that affected Nick's health (physically and mentally) can be related to all of us...

Undoubtedly Leeson will be using all of the stress-management lessons he has learned in the past during the CelebPoker €1Million Guaranteed. Having survived gang-ridden jails, personal heartbreaks and having triumphed over cancer, Leeson is an inspiration to all and should prove to be a formidable opponent on the tables. He remains confident he can give the other players in the tournament a run for their money.

The CelebPoker €1 Million Guaranteed runs on the 14th December and will pay a minimum of €250K to the winner. With satellites running daily from €5.50 and only limited time to book your seat, now is the time to book a big takedown in time for the holiday season. Winners of the daily satellites will win entry into the weekly Sunday €120 final at 18:30 GMT to compete for a €1,050 seat in the €1,000,000 Guaranteed Poker Tournament. You can also qualify through our Sit & Go Satellites, with these satellites you can qualify directly to the weekly, or even directly into the final.

The CelebPoker.com €1M structure is delicious, with 30 minute levels and a large10k starting stack, and an overlay is expected (meaning there’s a good chance your seat could be worth a lot more than the buy-in!). Book your seat today – you can bank on the fact that Nick Leeson will be giving it a shot! If you’re not in you can’t win – and we have already offered a million and one reasons for you to play – heck you might even break the bank!

€1000 Bounty Hunter - Nick Leeson
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€1000 CASH Bounty Hunter CelebPoker.com thought it was time for something different. We have added excitement and extra cash to the already huge €1 Million Guaranteed Tournament on December 14th at 19:00 GMT!

The infamous rogue trader and celebrity, Nick Leeson, contacted us to confirm that he was pretty excited about the €1 Million Guaranteed Tournament and will be playing for the huge prize pool. We decided it would be great fun to give you a chance to win some extra by knocking him out of this game.

It will be easy to locate Nick because his nickname is the same as his real name. Knock him out of the game in the first hour and win €1000, knock him out in the second hour and win €750, knock him out in the third hour and win €500!

Send info@celebpoker.com an email to let us know you did the job and knocked him out and the cash prize will be in your account within 24 hours

Publish Date : 02/12/2008

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