Andrew Radue

The 2011 WSOP Main Event is underway, this year there have been 6,865 registered players with most of the players registering on the last two days. The total prize pool is set at more than $65 million with a decent $8,7 million for the Main Event Champion.

Here are the 2011 WSOP updates and highlights of the World Series of Poker Main Event at the Rio Casino, in Las Vegas.

Watch the Main Event Live on ESPN from 14th July to see who will be crowned the 2011 World Series of Poker champion.

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The PokerStars Brazil Poker Tour is a brand new series of events taking place around Brazil, the first event of the Season kicks-off in Sao Paulo between the 21-25 July 2011. Qualifying tournaments will be running on PokerStars where players can win a Brazil Poker Tour prize package to play the BPT main event.

There are poker freeroll tournaments running where players can win their seat for free, download PokerStars and create a free poker account.

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PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier wins a WSOP Bracelet in Event #35 Pot-Limit Omaha (Six Handed) $5,000 buy-in event. Runner up was Hans Winzeler who put up a tough fight playing Heads-up against Mercier. This is the 2nd WSOP bracelet for Jason Mercier who won an Omaha Event in 2009.

Jason Mercier also won an European Poker Tour title in 2008 where he made two final tables in the same year, Mercier’s total tournament career earnings are now more than $6 million dollars.

Watch the WSOP Live Stream with the live streaming of the final tables of each event.
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Phil Hellmuth has another 2nd place finish in the 2011 WSOP, this time it’s not John Juanda preventing Hellmuth from winning his 12th WSOP bracelet. In Event #33: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship, Hellmuth managed to survive a tough playing field of 168 players and was eventually defeated Heads-up against Eric Rodawig.

Phil Hellmuth misses his 2nd attempt at winning a bracelet at this years World Series of Poker, although we have only reached the half way mark of the 58 events in the series. So far Hellmuth has cashed more than half a million dollars for his two 2nd place finishes, not bad even though he hasn’t won Gold yet.

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