Reaching the prestigious WSOP is an honour and a privilege. Only the very finest poker players from around the world can claim the spoils from this series of poker gaming events. The event kicked off on Friday, May 28th 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em event. It runs through until Event 57 with the No-Limit Hold’em Championship in November 2010.
A listing of some of the famous players who have cashed in on a World Series of Poker/World Series of Poker Circuit Event include the likes of: Phil Hellmuth, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Johnny Moss, Eric Seidel, Phil Ivey, Men Nguyen, Billy Baxter, TJ Cloutier, Jay Heimovitz and others. The tournament takes place at the Rio Hotel & Casino at 3700 West Flamingo Road in Las Vegas, NV USA.
Getting into the WSOP is a big deal indeed. And it doesn’t matter what your personal level of experience is, all players can use the WSOP website to interact with one another. Plus there are many fantastic opportunities to learn the game of poker as well as to play poker online. And there are many more interesting poker tips to be learned through the WSOP site, with poker terms, poker strategy and poker hands.
The vast majority of Poker Hall of Fame players have enjoyed the WSOP tournament and its generous multi-million dollar winnings. Big name poker players like Mike Sexton, Henry Orenstein, Duane Tomko, Barbara Enright, T.J. Cloutier and Jack Binion are all on the A-list. The Poker Hall of Fame was set up in 1979 and was later acquired by Harrah’s Entertainment along with the WSOP.
Poker players looking to improve their game will take heart from the fact that the WSOP is running poker academies. The first of these takes place as the ‘Main Event Primer’ in Las Vegas and the other was a mind and body academy at Rio All Suite Hotel & Casino with poker instructors Joe Navarro and Sam Chauhan.
At the end of the tournament one lucky poker star will walk away with millions of dollars. 2008’s champion Peter Eastgate pocketed some $9,152, 416 while 2009’s Joe Cada claimed $8,546, 435. The 2010 prize is going to Propecia cheap be equally grand.