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WSOP Decides how to award final seat to Tournament of Champions
TweetToday the World Series of Poker Academy released how they intend to award the 27th and final seat to the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions. All 27 seats have been accounted for, 5 by automatic berth, 20 by fan voting, and 2 by sponsor exemption. The two sponsor’s exemption seats will both be “earned seats,” [...]
Read MoreWorld Series of Poker Day 3 recap
TweetWith 3 events in action on Day 3 of the 2010 World Series of Poker, the attention was evenly divided among the Amazon and the Pavillion rooms at the Rio. The most attention was given to event #2, the $50k players Championship, which completed another 6 levels of play, and narrowed the field to just [...]
Read MoreWSOP Day 2 – The First Champion is Crowned
TweetCompleting event number 1 at a little after 4:30 AM, California Casino worker Hoai Pham from Vietnam took the championship, besting the 712 player field, and Arthur Lea heads up to claim the very first bracelet of the 2010 World Series of Poker. Event #1 was a $500 buy in Casino Employees event, and drew [...]
Read MoreDay 1 of the WSOP in the Books
TweetThe 2010 World Series of Poker got underway today with 2 events in action. Event #1, the $500 Buy in Casino Employee’s event began at noon with a collective group of more than 700 relative unknowns vying for an opportunity to claim the first bracelet of the 2010 Summer Series. But it was Event #2 [...]
Read MoreThe Monday Minute – the weekly recap and upcoming events
TweetThe Monday Minute recaps the big stories in poker in the last week and the important upcoming events. This week, A DeucesCracked Pro Ships the NAPT, A big week of Legal News, and PartyPoker’s cash game loses a player.
Read MoreAstro_pup wins a STEP 2 & WSOP Satellite Week 3 Preview
Tweetastro_pup (@tjsnell) has won a STEP 2 event and is on his way to the STEP 3 $2,000 GTD event on June 10th! Taking second place and a not too shabby $104 was @LVSPARKY. Congratulations to you both! We now turn our attention to week 3 of our 10 week run-up to the grand finale [...]
Read MoreWorld Series of Poker Satellite STEP 2 – Preview
Tweet Over the past week we have qualified 8 players through the STEP 1 events and we are ready to convene for the $40 + $4 STEP 2 event tonight at 9PM ET on Full Tilt Poker. First place in tonight’s event will take down a ticket to the STEP 3 event on June 10th [...]
Read MoreThe Monday Minute – The weekly recap and upcoming events
TweetThe Monday Minute recaps the big stories in poker in the last week and the important upcoming events. This week, The Bellagio Changes its tune, 2 new Poker TV Shows, and your too old for poker at 20, but too young at 77?
Read MoreMonday Minute – The weekly recap and upcoming events
TweetThe Monday Minute recaps the big stories in poker in the last week and the important upcoming events. This week, A WPT Record, Your piece of the 2010 WSOP Tournament of Champions, and Isildur1 to play LIVE and on TV???
Read MoreAustralian Poker Rising in Popularity
Tweet Article guest authored by Twitter Poker Tour member: @Street3 Much the same way Chris Moneymaker’s remarkable journey from a $40 online poker Satellite to 2003 WSOP ME 1st place finisher opened the flood gates for United States poker players, The Aussie Millions and the recent success of Hachem and Lisandro has created a poker [...]
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