The International Poker Players Association championship tournament is going to be one of the biggest poker tournaments on the calender. The televised High-roller poker tournament has a buy-in of $250,000 and a prize pool of $12 million, the tournament is limited to a field of 48 players all competing for a first place prize of $5 million at the Monte Carlo Casino in December 2010.

So far the event has already attracted some of the High Stakes Poker pros including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Tony G and Patrik Antonius.

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The 40th Annual World Series of Poker 2009 takes place between 27th May till 15th July with the remaining top 9 players going through to the Main Event which is set for 7th – 10th November 2009. The overall cost of entering each event is $295,500.  All 57 event winners will be awarded with a WSOP gold bracelet which is the highest achievement of any poker player career. For the 40th WSOP anniversary there is going to be a once off special No-Limit Holdem event to start the WSOP 2009 off with a bang the event estimates a field of more than 5000 players.
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