The WSOP 2010 November Nine is set in stone after a tiresome 5 hours and 45 minutes of play till Brandon Steven was eliminated in 10th place. Play will resume in November with the final table battling it out to determine the 2010 WSOP main event champion.

The WSOP 2010 ESPN TV schedule has been announced and you can watch the main event weekly episodes starting from 10 August 2010 leading up to the final table on 9th November.

The November Nine are Jonathan Duhamel, John Dolan, Joseph Cheong, John Racener, Matthew Jarvis, Filippo Candio, Michael Mizrachi, Soi Nguyen and Jason Senti.

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The WSOP 2010 Main Event is officially the 2nd biggest live poker tournament of all time beating last years attendance of 6,494 players registered. The final figures have not yet been calculated but so far there have been more players registered than last years event, the worldwide rescission seems to have not affected the main event registration.

The biggest attendance was recorded at the 2006 WSOP which had 8,773 players entering the main event, the biggest live poker event in the world. That year the prize pool was a staggering $82,512,162 and the event was won by Jamie Gold who won more than $12 million for his first place finish.

Update – 7,319 players registered for this years main event making the total prize pool $68,798,600

*Spoiler alert* Read more only if you wish to see the 2010 World Series of Poker updates.

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Bodog Mini Poker Series runs from the 5th – 17th July 2010, the online poker series features 13 daily guaranteed tournaments with a total of  $40,000 in prize pools and a chance to win a WSOP main event seat in 2011.

Players can also win Bodog Poker Open V entries and BodogPoker $100k tournament tickets. Buy-in directly for $10+$1 or enter the daily satellite tournaments for only $1,10 or 100 Bodog Points.

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Phil Ivey wins his 8th WSOP bracelet in the Event #37  H.O.R.S.E. with a field of 478 players entered. Ivey lasted till the final table in which he started out as the short stack when the game changed to 7 Card Stud and then RAZZ he managed to control the table and increased his chips from 100k up to a million and then finally won the event heads-up against Bill Chen.

Full Tilt Poker pro Phil Ivey is now tied 5th with Erik Seidel in all time WSOP bracelet winners with Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson both having earned 10 bracelets and Phil Hellmuth who still leads with 11 World Series of Poker bracelets to his name.
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This week online poker players can play for their last chance to win a seat the the 2010 World Series of Poker main event, FullTiltPoker and PokerStars are offering online WSOP qualifiers where players can win prize packages to biggest poker event taking place at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas on the 5th July 2010.

Full Tilt Poker main event week has more than 235 WSOP seats to be won in their daily qualifying tournaments and freeroll, with a 150 seats guaranteed tournament this Sunday.

PokerStars WSOP Mega Satellite to the Main Event has 200 seats guaranteed on Sunday 20th June 2010 which replaces the Sunday Million Tournament.

Whichever Online Poker Room you choose we wish you luck in getting your seat to this years main event when playing 2010 WSOP Main Event Satellites.

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