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Bellagio Cup III Championship Now a WPT Event

Casino Added Three Super Satellites to Schedule

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The Bellagio announced that its $10,000 buy-in event that's set to take place at this summer's Bellagio Cup III tournament series will be filmed and broadcast by the World Poker Tour.

The event starts July 10, and three days of supersatellite tournaments have been added to the schedule. The $1,090 supersatellites take place twice a day July 7, July 8, and July 9, and once on July 10. They take place at noon and 10 p.m. each day. The $2,620 event that was scheduled for July 7 has been canceled.

The Bellagio also announced that every winner of its events during the Bellagio Cup III will also receive a $25,000 seat into the WPT Championship that will take place at the casino in 2008. Winners will also receive a gold bracelet.

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The Bellagio Cup III is one of three major poker tournament series that will take place this summer. It runs between June 11 and July 15. Just across I-15 that runs through Las Vegas, the 55 events of the World Series of Poker take place between June 1 and July 17, and over at the Venetian, its Deep Stack Extravaganza will take place from June 1 to July 1.

Among the three, 114 poker tournaments will take place in a little more than a month and a half. A dozen of those events (11 at the WSOP) will be filmed and televised.