We have a little over five months to convince Olivia Munn to play the 2010 World Series of Poker. Or at least be one of our Girls on the Rail.
The full schedule for the 41st edition of the
World Series of Poker has been announced.
Featuring 57 bracelet events–same number as last year–the series officially gets underway at the Rio on May 27, and for the third year in a row, Harrahs will hold the so-called “November Nine” hostage for four months before they play for the Main Event title on November 6-9, with “special primetime coverage from ESPN.”
Of note, as we first reported in our exclusive interview with former WSOP commish Jeffrey Pollack, the WSOP will use the entire Rio convention center in 2010, including the expansive Pavilion Ballroom. Also, the $50,000 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. event has been changed to the $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship, and it will now take place as Event No. 2 on Friday, May 28 and feature eight games (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Hold’em, Pot-Limit Omaha and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball).
Check out the full press release on the schedule here, if you’re into that sort of thing, or skip to the their bullet-pointed stuff down below under the fold. Full schedule here. Lots more photos of Olivia Munn here.
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Tagged as: 2010 WSOP, 2010 WSOP Schedule, featured, world series of poker
The 2009 World Series of Poker may send rebuy events to the rail, according to Communications Director Seth Palanksy.
In an article on Card Player, Palansky says:
"There is a movement to not have any rebuy events…There is the growing concern that a pro can buy a bracelet in a rebuy event."
Surprisingly even guys like Daniel Negreanu, who once rebought 43 times in an event (which he eventually finished 3rd in), agree with this decision.
One guy who doesn't, however, is Layne Flack. "That's bullshit," Flack told Card Player. Flack won the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Rebuy event at this year's WSOP. He continued his rant with possibly our favorite quote of the year, cracking on poker's all-time legend:
"You want to talk about buying a bracelet? Let’s talk about Doyle’s bracelet when there were eight people in the tournament…The critics should look back in history and see where a bracelet has been bought."
We've always held a similar opinion, but you rarely hear a pro say it.
In other 2009 WSOP news, Palansky said that they are considering adding a winner-take-all event to the roster. While Palansky told Card Player that they will "likely" keep the Main Event final table delay, we've heard speculation that it will be moved earlier than November next year. While a delay will still occur, most WSOP officials we've learned believe that four months is too long. Look for a final table perhaps in September or October next year. So much for all the work we spent trademarking the clever "November NineTM."
Tagged as: 2009 WSOP, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Layne Flack, Poker News, world series of poker
"Salty" Joe Hachem was in rare typical form on ESPN, similar to his 2006 WSOP performance above.
Hat’s off to ESPN for continuing to show poker players in a little more honest light this year.
The most recent case in point is spotlighting "Salty" Joe Hachem being especially salty on Day 1C of the 2008 World Series of Poker.
So here’s what we’re looking for…if one of our readers can put together a compilation of Salty Joe’s saltiest moments and upload it to YouTube, we’ll ship you a Wicked Chops tee. Easy enough. Have at it.
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Robert Mizarchi and Erick Lindgren are somewhere in the Rio Amazon Room at the 2008 WSOP.
It’ll be an interesting day. With turn-out a little under expectation for Days 1A and 1B of the 2008 WSOP Main Event, everyone is hoping for a strong surge of registrants this weekend. Actually, that’s not very interesting at all.
A little more than half the starting field survived play yesterday, with 615 poker players moving on to Day 2. A couple of "some guys" are big stacked, with Ben Sarnoff (177,500) and Brian Schaedlich (160,725) atop the leaderboard.
Of the pros who have formally formed a consurtium of sorts to pile-drive home The Year of the ProTM, The Grinder’s bro Robert Mizrachi is among the big stacks with 142,400. Other pros still in pursuit include the wildly underrated until we keep saying that and make him overrated Alex Balandin, oh wait never mind we’re thinking of Alex Bolotin (109,925), Erick Lindgren (92,325), Barny Boatman (80,600), the blind guy from last year Hal Lubarsky (70,700), Hoyt Corkins (67,525), Erik Seidel (64,925), Patrik Antonius (64,125), Vanessa Rousso, a woman, who went to Duke (48,450), and 2007 WSOP final table-ist Alex Kravchenko (45,300).
For a list of those who have departed us from the 2008 WSOP Main Event, read here and here.
Get full chip counts here.
Talk it up about the WSOP, railbirds, Danish girls on bikes, the death of Jesse Helms, hot top droppers, whatever, on the new WCP poker forum.
Tagged as: 2008 WSOP, Erick Lindgren., patrik antonius, world series of poker
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