The 2011 World Series Of Poker Schedule has been released by Harrah’s, the 2011 WSOP will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and will be broadcast on ESPN. There are 58 events featuring a variety of poker game types, the winner of each event will take home a WSOP bracelet.
This year the 2011 WSOP starts on the 30th May and runs until 19th July, with buy-ins starting from $500 up to $50,000.
Qualifying satellite tournaments will soon be available online at popular poker rooms such as Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and PartyPoker where players can win their seat to the 42nd annual World Series of Poker.
Peter Eastgate, 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event winner has decided to sell his WSOP bracelet on EBay, all profits from the sale will be given to UNICEF a charity organization. So far there have been 32 bids which have increased the opening bid from $16k to $41k. Tony G is one of the bidders who claims he wants the bracelet for his dog, Zasko.
A few months back Peter Eastgate announced his retirement from the poker circuit due to lack of motivation, I suppose it is a great move in a way to quit while you are ahead with more than $9 million won for his first place win. This week Eastgate shocked the poker industry again with his intent to sell his 2008 WSOP main event bracelet, one of the biggest symbols of achievement in poker. Read More …
Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XVIII takes place this November with a pro hosting each event, play poker online against the 2010 WSOP November Nine players from the World Series of Poker main event.
The Full Tilt Online Poker Series is hosted by Team Full Tilt Poker pros which includes John Racener, Filippo Candio, John Dolan, Matthew Jarvis and Soi Nguyen and many more pros in the online poker series.
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The WSOP 2010 main event winner is Jonathan Duhamel, the first Canadian to win a main event. The PokerStars player now joins the team of PokerStars bracelet winners which include Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate and Joe Cada.
On Saturday the November Nine played 11 hours until two players remained Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener, they played heads-up on Monday night to determine the 2010 WSOP main event champion.
Duhamel had a 6-1 chip lead on Racener going into the Heads-up match and finally won the WSOP bracelet and main event title for 2010.
Watch the 2010 World Series Of Poker main event highlights and action on the final table tonight on ESPN on 9 November at 10 – 12 pm
World Series of Poker have announced two new members for the Poker Hall of Fame, Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington will now make up the 40 members in this elite group of poker ambassadors. The new members will be inducted in a ceremony just before the WSOP final table in November.
There are now 18 living members of the initial 40 members elected, only one or two new members are elected each year.
Eight poker players were nominated for this years Poker Hall of Fame which include Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman, Linda Johnson and Tom McEvoy.