Notable players who have survived their first day include: Eric Baldwin, Vanessa Selbst, Shaun Deeb, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Cada, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Ivey and Brian Hastings.
Some notable poker pros that have already been eliminated so far include: Phil Hellmuth, Joe Hachem, Tom Dwan, Chip Jett, Bertrand Grospellier, Greg Raymer, Justin Smith, Chino Rheem, Andrew Robl, Lex Veldhuis, Jonathan Duhamel and Chris Moneymaker.
ESPN will begin their televised coverage of the WSOP 2012 main event starting on the 14th August with the 2012 World Series of Poker: Main Event on ESPN at 9 p.m. and ending with ESPN 2012 World Series of Poker: Main Event Final Table on 30th October 2012.
The final table feed broadcast will be delayed by 15 minutes to ensure fairness to the finalists.
This year ESPN have added The Big One for One Drop series and the WSOP Circuit National Championship to the broadcast lineup in the three weeks prior to the main event, both series will be shown on ESPN and ESPN3.
Those looking to watch live streaming tables from the 2012 WSOP will be pleased to know that WSOP.com will stream 60 World Series of Poker Final Tables Online with a five minute delay without hole cards for more information about 2012 WSOP Live web stream.
Cake Poker remains one of only a handful of poker sites where Americans are still allowed to play for real money.
Other interesting facts about Cake poker’s WSOP satellite qualifiers are that winners will be responsible for their own WSOP registration, accommodation and travel arrangements while in Las Vegas and that should the prize pool for the $10K Main Event Final tournament not reach $10,000, no $10K prize will be awarded and the prize pool will be paid out to the Players finishing in the top three places of the tournament.
Basically, Cake Poker will pay winning players $10,000 into their real money balance of their Cake Poker Account if the tournament prize pool reaches at least $10k but players need to arrange their transport, hotel and even make their own buy-in into the WSOP 2012.
This event sounds to me like a bit of a stretch of being a proper WSOP qualifier, but for those interested (perhaps USA players with existing Cake Poker accounts) feel free to see the Cake Poker WSOP Main Event Satellites Steps schedule that continues below.
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