Online Casino Transfer: News - WSOP Ramps into Action

06/11/2010		Online Casino Style: News WSOP Ramps into Action
Home History Games News Dictionary		The latest edition of the World Series of Poker launched at the end of May, setting off the Memorial Day weekend with a bang that has continued into the month of June. The first three events seem to be a huge success with both online gamblers looking to tune into the action, and the players themselves, living up the poker dream in the Rio hotel, Las Vegas. The casino resort is surely enjoying the attention, as well as bookings, as rooms fill up with some of the biggest – and littlest – known names in both live poker and the online gambling community. The tournament, the 41st of its kind, hosted first a $500 No Limit Hold’Em event for casino employees, starting the Series off right with a heavy sign-in of 721 names. By the end of the first day, Kent Washington was solidly clasping the first place, about 50,000 chips ahead of his nearest rival, Jonathan Kotuala. Though the game certainly saw more entrants, the big fish of the first day was definitively the $50,000 buy-in mixed game Players Championship, a host of different styles of play, designed to filter out the best at every variation of poker, from Texas Hold 'em, Omaha high-low split, seven-card razz, seven-card stud, seven-card stud high-low, no-limit Texas Hold 'em, pot-limit Omaha to Deuce-to-Seven Triple-Draw lowball. It began late Friday afternoon following the opening ceremony, and despite the steep price tag, managed to attract 116 entries. The winner would be written a check for $1,559,043, sending ripples of excitement through the crowd. By the end of the first day, the leaders were led by Erik Sagstrom, with David Oppenheim scrambling on his tail, and poker legend Doyle Brunson waiting patiently in third place. Though at this time of writing a winner for the Players Championship had not yet been determined, excitement was only building as the few left moved on to Level 8 of play. The third event of the weekend wasn’t nearly as expensive, holding its own as the first event with a $1,000 buy-in. Registrations for the game managed to hit 3,851 long before the cut-off time, with the overall energy at the start of the game feeling rather frenetic after Joe Cada’s shuffle and deal. Despite the low prize pool, the player pool was full of names well recognized by online gambling fans as Amarillo Slim, Joe Sebok, Lisa Parsons and Vanessa Rousso sat down with stark competition like like Lee Watkinson, Jonathan Little, Lex Veldhuis and David Benyamine.

06/11/2010

Online Casino Style: News
WSOP Ramps into Action

The latest edition of the World Series of Poker launched at the end of May, setting off the Memorial Day weekend with a bang that has continued into the month of June. The first three events seem to be a huge success with both online gamblers looking to tune into the action, and the players themselves, living up the poker dream in the Rio hotel, Las Vegas. The casino resort is surely enjoying the attention, as well as bookings, as rooms fill up with some of the biggest – and littlest – known names in both live poker and the online gambling community.

The tournament, the 41st of its kind, hosted first a $500 No Limit Hold’Em event for casino employees, starting the Series off right with a heavy sign-in of 721 names. By the end of the first day, Kent Washington was solidly clasping the first place, about 50,000 chips ahead of his nearest rival, Jonathan Kotuala. Though the game certainly saw more entrants, the big fish of the first day was definitively the $50,000 buy-in mixed game Players Championship, a host of different styles of play, designed to filter out the best at every variation of poker, from Texas Hold 'em, Omaha high-low split, seven-card razz, seven-card stud, seven-card stud high-low, no-limit Texas Hold 'em, pot-limit Omaha to Deuce-to-Seven Triple-Draw lowball.

It began late Friday afternoon following the opening ceremony, and despite the steep price tag, managed to attract 116 entries. The winner would be written a check for $1,559,043, sending ripples of excitement through the crowd. By the end of the first day, the leaders were led by Erik Sagstrom, with David Oppenheim scrambling on his tail, and poker legend Doyle Brunson waiting patiently in third place. Though at this time of writing a winner for the Players Championship had not yet been determined, excitement was only building as the few left moved on to Level 8 of play.

The third event of the weekend wasn’t nearly as expensive, holding its own as the first event with a $1,000 buy-in. Registrations for the game managed to hit 3,851 long before the cut-off time, with the overall energy at the start of the game feeling rather frenetic after Joe Cada’s shuffle and deal. Despite the low prize pool, the player pool was full of names well recognized by online gambling fans as Amarillo Slim, Joe Sebok, Lisa Parsons and Vanessa Rousso sat down with stark competition like like Lee Watkinson, Jonathan Little, Lex Veldhuis and David Benyamine.