The popular online poker room InterPoker - sister site of InterCasino - staged the third of its exciting Extreme Poker showdowns last week, which culminated in four players getting kicked out of an airborne plane.  Although the players were not actually "kicked" out of the plane, they still were forced to jump from the plane and parachute back down to the Las Vegas desert when they were each eliminated from the airborne online poker tournament aptly called Loser's Leap.

Four Inter Poker players, who all qualified online to play in the poker tournament, as well as poker pro Phil Laak, sat in a moving plane to duke out the final table in the tournament.  When a player was eliminated, they would have to strap on a parachute and jump out at 15,000 feet, thus making it one of the most Extreme Poker tournaments Inter Poker has held to date (the other two tournaments were staged underwater with scuba tanks and in the freezing Arctic).

The final one standing - who had the honor of landing with the plane and receiving a $13,000 all-expenses-paid trip and buy-in to the 2006 Caribbean Poker Classic - was an online casino and poker enthusiast by the name of Nick Grudzien.  After securing the win, Nick commented that the Loser's Leap Challenge was the toughest tournament he ever played in.  Other player's sentiments were the same, which was fittingly expressed by Lak, who said the pressure to win was enormous, considering if someone called his bluff he would have to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

Creator of the Extreme Poker Challenge and spokesperson for InterPoker, Peter Markus said that after playing in such a high pressure environment, all of the players should no longer find the stakes and pressure of playing in a land-based casino tournament to be so hard.  Despite the seeming hardship of having to jump from 15,000 feet, all of the players said they were ready to get back up in the air to do it all over again.  In the meantime, InterPoker continues to drum up more Extreme Poker Challenges and host around-the-clock online tournament qualifiers.

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