WSOPE 2009 Schedule, The World Series Of Poker Europe (WSOPE) have set their schedule for 2009, the event will be hosted by BetFair and will run from 17 September through to 1 October 2009 the is set at Leicester Square, Casino at the Empire in London.
In this third series of WSOPE, John Juanda will be looking to defend his 2008 WSOPE main event title for the coveted tournament that offers a total of four gold bracelets which are highly desired items amongst top competing professional poker players. The tournament is bound to attact many of the top names in the game as it has done in the past with television broadcast rights given to ESPN.
Full Tilt Poker $500/$1000 NLHE games seem to keep breaking the biggest online pot record. Recently the record was broken 3 times in one day. Phil Ivey managed to claim the record win of the biggest online poker pot winning $687,000.
The second annual European Series 2008 took place last September with the final two players remaining battling it out for 8 hrs. John Juanda’s victory was well earned as he spent a record breaking 22 hours with 484 hands played up until the final table. Stanislav Alekhin was finally placed 2nd in one one the longest WSOPE heads up matches. Daniel Negreanu managed to secure 5th place.