WSOP – Full Poker Action for 51 days
Posted on June 15, 2010 by John Trevors for Luckyroom.com
With over 23 WSOP events already concluded and #24 ongoing, WSOP action heats up as we approaching fast to event #57 which is no other than the almighty and popular $10,000 No Limit Texas Holdem. The event is scheduled for Monday July 5th and the tournament officials estimate that the participants will exceed the 6494 which is the WSOP 2009 main event record. The financial crisis certainly is not notable at the Las Vegas Casinos as this has been traced to be the most crowded WSOP tournament ever! Over 61,000 players are expected to battle for a WSOP bracelet – the ultimate poker recognition. Last year’s prize pool reached $174,000,000 where poker players from 115 different countries participated in over 50 different WSOP events.
If you would like to participate to a WSOP event and to live the excitement of a high level tournament you can register now through the official WSOP web page. As an alternative you can win a WSOP package by participating on online poker rooms freeroll and freeroll satellites and qualifier satellited for main events where the way to the final tournament can be achieved via satellites or directly by participating to the final table.
What is unique this year is the number of low buy-in events. The tournament officials decided to satisfy the public demand who still eyes large pots but with reasonable buy-ins. All the popular games are offered to buy-ins that vary from $1,000 to $50,000. The WSOP started with the Casino Employees Championship with a buy-in of $500 and 721 entries who battled for the $324,000 prize pool. Pham was the winner of that event who went back to his casino work $71,000 richer! The second event was the glamorous $50,000 Player’s Championship tournament. 116 professional poker players battled for the prize pool of $5,568,000. The winner was no other than Michael Mizrachi who managed to eliminate all the other participants and he won 1,559,000.
The $5,000 No Limit Holdem shootout event enjoyed a 30% increase comparing to 2009 where 358 players battled for the $1,682,600 prize pool. The winner on that event was Joshua Tieman who cashed out his chips worth of $441,692! On June 7th 150 poker players gathered to Rio hotel in order to participate to the $10,000 Seven-card Stud tournament and get a share of the $1,410,000 prize pool. The winner was no other than the Men “The Master” Nguyen who won his seventh World Series of Poker Bracelet and $394,800. Yesterday, Russ “Dutch” Boyd celebrated his second WSOP bracelet as he was the winner of the $2,500 shorthanded Limit Holdem event #23 which
attracted 384 players and a prize pool worth of 883,200.
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