The countdown to 2010 has began and I’m still wandering where the year has gone, but 2009 was a good year for poker. There were many new records and achievements like the youngest player to win the World Series of Poker, the largest online poker pot and tournament. Phil Ivey makes it to the November Nine after winning his 7th WSOP bracelet.

High Stakes player Tom Dwan became a Team Full Tilt Poker member after many hours of high stakes action in the Durrrr challenge. Isildur1 the unknown Swedish high stakes player ends the year on a bad note.
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The WSOP 2010 tournament schedule has been released. The 2010 World Series of Poker will be the 41st WSOP which is set to start on May 27th, 2010 scheduled through until the 9th November, 2010.

The 2010 WSOP will offer 57 WSOP bracelets and is set to begin with the Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em event on May 28th. The World Series of Poker 2010 schedule is set to end November 9th, when the main event winner is declared.

The main event is scheduled to begin on July 5th, 2010 with Day 1 A. July 17th marks the date when final table participants will be finalized at which stage the WSOP have opted for a “November Nine” finalists table in 2010 once again, where the nine finalists will compete for the coveted main event title 6th-9th November 2010.

There are a number of changes that have been made by the WSOP in 2010:

-$50k HORSE championship has been removed and substituted by a $50K “Player’s Championship” (Event #2) featuring 8 different games.
-$10K HORSE Championship scheduled for (Event #43)
-$25K 6-handed NLHE event added to the schedule (Event #52)

Other notable changes set for the 2010 running of the WSOP include more poker tables being added as well as changes in the assignment of starting days to the main event after a certain date.

Pre-registration for the 2010 WSOP is now underway, players can enter via the Main Cage at the Rio or through WSOP.com.
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The WSOP 2009 final table was full of action this year and the main event winner Joseph Cada has now claim the 2009 main event bracelet when he defeated Darvin Moon in the heads-up stage of the 40th anniversary WSOP event.

Twenty-one year old Joe Cada has won the WSOP main event, although Cada has already cashed eleven times in WSOP events. Joseph Cada was the short stack going it to heads-up with Darvin Moon having almost a double stack lead.

The WSOP 2009 had a direct buyin 0f $10,000 with 6,494 players participating in this years main event which has a first place prize of  $8,546,435.

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Great news for all you Poker TV fans, ESPN will announce today that they have signed a new deal to cover the World Series of Poker until 2017, the current deal ends in 2010 despite ESPN’s poker rating being down 8% this year to date, “ESPN is bullish on poker for a long time to come”; according to a spokesperson.
The main event coverage for 2009 begins soon which will provide the needed boost in ranking especially seeing the Tiger Woods of poker “Phil Ivey” making the final table this year.
The deal will provide viewers of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Classic, ESPN-International and several other TV channels the chance to watch the World Series. ESPN have covered poker’s most prestigious event since 2003.

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At long last you will no longer need to watch replays of last year’s WSOP as ESPN have started broadcasting the new 2009 World Series of Poker episodes which began yesterday with the first TV broadcast of the WSOP 2009 being the 40th Anniversary $40k NLHE tournament which was shown at 8pm to 10pm EST on 28th July.

With the next major ESPN poker TV event being the WSOP Champions Cup Invitational event which will be televised on the 4th August followed shortly afterwards by the Ante Up For Africa Charity tourney set to be hitting your TV on the 11th, check the full ESPN Poker TV schedule for the WSOP 2009 by reading the rest of this article.

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