World Series of Poker Starts TomorrowCasino Employees Event Kicks off 40th World Series of Poker |
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For the next six weeks, all eyes in the poker world will fall on the 40th World Series of Poker which gets starts tomorrow May 27 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.
The 57-event Series gets underway with the first bracelet event, the $500 buy-in Casino Employees tournament at midday PST and is followed on Thursday by the new, and much hyped, $40,000 no-limit hold’em event.
This year rebuy tournaments have been banished from the Series but the controversial final table break which will deliver the “November Nine” returns after it was deemed a PR and marketing success in 2008.
The WSOP runs until July 15 with the $10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold’em centerpiece event running from July 3 to 15.
Fans can watch live streaming of many of the events at PKR.com and CardPlayer.com will be there every step of the way bringing you the best live reporting, news, interviews and blogs every day.