23 players have confirmed their seats for the million dollar buy-in 2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop tournament.

Amongst the registered players there are twelve poker pros which includes: Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Trickett, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Phil Galfond, Jason Mercier, Brian Rast, Noah Schwartz, Bobby Baldwin and Andrew Robl.

Half of the seats are already confirmed as the event is limited to the first 56 players cap limit. This will be the second time the event has featured on the World Series of Poker schedule with the first taking place in 2012.

Antonio Esfandiari won the 2012 WSOP Big One for One Drop winning more than $18 million which instantly positioned him in first place on the Poker All Time Money List.

The 2014 WSOP Main Event features $10 Million for first place prize adding great value to the most popular live poker tournament in history.

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There have been some changes to the Poker All Time Money List in 2014, some poker pros have had a successful start to the year cashing at the 2014 Aussie Millions.

Phil Ivey has moved up from 6th place to 2nd place after his biggest tournament win in the 2014 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge.

Still topping the Poker All Time Money List is Antonio Esfandiari who’s biggest win was the million dollar buy-in 2012 WSOP The Big One for One Drop.

Daniel Negreanu is also hot on the heels of Phil Ivey with only a few dollars behind in tournament earnings in 2014, both players having success at this years Aussie Millions.
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New Jersey poker sites have launched their software in a testing phase to be complaint with regulation before the official launch of their operations.

So far only a few land based casinos should be approved for the soft launch these include: Golden Nugget Casino, Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Borgata Casino, Tropicana Casino, Trump Plaza and Trump Taj Mahal.

The Atlantic City casinos will be using popular online casino & poker platforms as the backbone of their operations namely: BwinParty, 888, Betfair, Amaya, GameSys, Ultimate Gaming and Bally Technologies.

The poker sites are accepting player registrations and giving testers a limited amount of free poker cash to players before they launch.

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The Premier League 7 is scheduled for the 20th – 26th November 2013, the prestigious event takes place at the Playground Poker Club, Montreal.

The line-up has been announced with twelve of the top poker pros participating in the televised high stakes poker tournament.

Confirmed players for the event include: Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Shak, Phil Laak, Vanessa Selbst, Scott Seiver, Daniel Cates, Jason Koon, Jeff Gross, Sorel Mizzi, Daniel Colman, Jonathan Duhamel and Brian Rast.

The tournament features a buy-in of  $125,000 and attracts the best high stake players in poker, the event has six heats where players must earn points to qualify for the final table.

The PartyPoker Premier League 7 is the perfect event to create some hype leading up to the 2013 WPT Montreal which starts from 29 November at the same venue.

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The final table for the World Series of Poker returns on 4-5 November, nine players battling it out for the title and millions for first place finish.

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.

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