Lee Davy talks to the Tournament Director, Christian Scalzi, about his new partnership with partypoker, the LIVE MILLIONS brand, Button Ante concept, and their forthcoming $9m GTD partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Sochi event in Russia.

One mistake that live poker tour operators have made in the past, is they take out the plaster of Paris and begin to shape a live festival structure that they like.

Of course, this is batshit crazy, because what live poker tour operators should be doing is taking that plaster and creating a masterpiece that their players will love.

Now, this isn’t easy when you are a live tour operator dealing with so many diverse cultures and languages. How do you know what your people believe; who they look up to; who they trust; what they’re afraid of; what they yearn for; what they are hungry for?