The World Series Has Begun!
Yes, it was delayed a bit this year, as Harrah's improved upon their 1st foray as tournament host for the WSOP. Now the "main event" isn't for nearly a month, but the preliminary events have started. Just yesterday, Mike Sexton, host of PartyPoker and commentator from the WPT, won the Tournament of Champions event of 27 player who were part of an invitation-only freeroll.
Sexton outlasted Daniel Negreanu and Mike the Mouth in the final three to win a cool one million dollars.
Updates from the WSOP are best seen on CardPlayer.com. The official world series schedule is located here. Today marks a $1,500 buy-in NLHE event, so these are no small tourneys, by any means. Keep looking to CardPlayer for updates.
Interesting future events are the short-handed NLHE event this weekend (Brunson won it last year) and the $5k NLHE event on July 4th. They've also brought back the HORSE event where they play mixed games and is said to be the truest test of poker skill. HORSE is set for July 12th and will have a $50,000 buy-in!
The Main Event (WSOPME) begins on Fri Jul 28 and runs to Thu Aug 10. There's a lot of poker between now and then.
ESPN's coverage was announced here.
Question to wrap up: how many players do you think will be registered for the WSOPME? Use the comments section. Records have been broken year after year, but there will be a maximum number they can accomodate. Will it go down? How many? 5,000? 6,000? 8,000? Place your guess in the comments.
posted by Caz @ 12:01 PM
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I'm going to say 8,100 players. Full Tilt has really pushed their promos, and I think this is the 1nd year of really pushing qualifiers from online sites. I'm pretty sure I know the maximum they can handle from reading an article in Card Player, and I think it's under that MAX.
The final count was over 8,700. There may be nearly 12,000 next year, according to Harrah's. If they could find the dealers, this would mean that the WSOP will begin in multiple locations. Yikes.
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