The schedule for the World Series of Poker Europe is announced, the Year of the Woman continues as a female player takes the EPT Mixed Games Player of the Year title, and we’ll wrap it up with a ludicrous story involving Phil Hellmuth.
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The 2010 World Series of Poker starts on Friday, with 57 bracelets up for grabs along with big paydays and bragging rights. The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino will house everybody who’s anybody in poker. The first two days promise to feature record-setting fields and a high caliber of poker talent. On Friday, the WSOP kicks off with the annual five hundred dollar Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em tournament. Add a couple of zeros to that buy-in for the first ever running of the fifty thousand dollar Player’s Championship, which will be one of three events broadcast by ESPN. Day two will see players flock to the first of six open one thousand dollar No Limit Hold’em events. Keep watching the Daily Deal for the latest WSOP news and gossip as it develops.
As if there wasn’t enough excitement regarding the WSOP, the schedule for its European version has just been announced. The two thousand and ten WSOP Europe will start on September fourteenth at the Casino at the Empire in London. It will have one more event than last year, for a total of five. One of the highlights is a No Limit Hold’em High Roller Heads-Up tournament with a buy-in of ten thousand pounds. The Main Event will be the fifth and final tournament on the docket this year and begin on September twenty-third.
The year of the woman continues: PokerStars pro Katja Thater won the title of European Poker Tour Mixed Games Player of the Year, thanks to her skills in the more obscure variations of poker. To win this accolade, she had to defeat the likes of Alexander Kravchenko, Joe Hachem and Scott “BigRiskky” Clements in an invitational deep stack tournament. Thater will be presented with her well-deserved trophy on the opening day of the Main Event at EPT Estonia.
What will Phil Hellmuth come up with next? The attention-loving poker legend recently had a cameo in rapper Ludacris’ video for his new song “Sex Room”. If Hellmuth wanted to draw attention to himself and UB.com, he definitely succeeded. In his UB tee shirt and baseball hat, he certainly stands out, sitting at a private poker table at the Palms among a group of rappers. All the while, he’s raking in UB-marked poker chips. (Clip Shown)
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