The 2014 WPT Borgata takes place at the beginning of the year, the Main Event is scheduled for the 26-31 January at the Borgata Hotel Casino, Atlantic City.
PartyPoker are running weekly World Poker Tour satellites that guaranteed $6,000 packages to the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event.
888 Poker JC Chan has his eye on the prize having the chipleader advantage starting out on the final table.
Watch all the action on ESPN2, the cards will be dealt from 16:30 Pacific Time with a fifteen minute delay from the live action. Poker fans can also watch the WSOP Live Streaming sponsored by 888Poker worldwide and Slotmania in US.
Commentary will be provided by Lon McEachern, Norman Chad with additional commentary by poker legends Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Hellmuth.
Before the final table started two players were inducted into the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame, Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy.
US player Ryan Riess has been crowned the WSOP Main Event champion defeating Jay Farber heads-up.
Mateos battled it out heads-up with Fabrice Soulier for more than four hours to defeat the french player in his own country.
This is the third bracelet won by a Team 888poker player throughout the WSOPE series.
There will be three $2,000 Gold Bracelet Freerolls to celebrate Team 888poker victories at the World Series of Poker Europe 2013.
JC Tran will represent 888poker as the chip leader at the 2013 WSOP Main Event on 4-5 November.
Negreanu just needed to make the final table of the High Roller Event to claim his 2013 POY title and managed to win the tournament and his 2nd WSOP bracelet for 2013.
This is Negreanu’s second WSOP player of the Year title, his previous title was won in 2004 a decade ago.
Negreanu started out on the final table with the lowest chip stack and found himself head-ups verses Brazilian player, Nicolau Villa-Lobos.
The annual Poker Hall of Fame welcomes two players into an elite group of poker pros or contributed to the game of poker.
The two players who are chosen for the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame 2013 will be inducted just before the final table of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event.
In total there are only 40 members that make up the PHOF and only 18 players who are still alive.
Update: The two members of the 2013 Poker Hall of Fame are Scotty Nguyen and Tom McEvoy.
