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Saturday, May 26, 2007 | Francis Lee
Less than two weeks to go until the start of the much anticipated World Series of Poker 2007 held in the gambling capital of the world Las Vegas. With all the poker professionals, amateurs and celebrities from around the world starting to arrive in Las Vegas the atmosphere around the town is starting to hit fever pitch. Most people staying for up to five weeks to spectate and take part in the fifty five scheduled events, starting on 1st June and finishing with the $10,000 World Championship Main Event on 6th July.
Sixteen more events than last year have been put on giving players more chances to win the large cash prizes on offer. Players will also be looking to get the most sought after WSOP gold bracelet in the Championship events. In between events there are live satellites giving players a cheaper way to get a seat into the WSOP main event.
Last years main event winner Jamie Gold took home a massive $12 million dollars first place prize and the title of World Champion. We had 8,773 starting out in the tournament creating an unprecedented prize pool of $82,512,126 paying up to 873rd places. This year event organisers are expecting the amount of attending players to again increase by a large amount than last year with the huge interest in poker increasing each year attracting both professional and amateur poker players. Especially with the increase in seats for the main event being won through satellites with the many online poker rooms.
Chris Moneymaker is the man most people say has changed the outlook on poker and the WSOP main event in 2003, an accountant and amateur online poker player paying just $39 to enter a satellite held at Poker Stars, won through and gained a seat to the main event. Historically the main events out look was that a select few professional players even had a chance to win this prize but Moneymaker smashed this theory to pieces inspiring all amateur poker players across the globe to have a go.
The very next year in 2004 another amateur poker player Greg Raymer won the Main event winning $5million dollars, and with the increase of television coverage of the poker world ever since the popularity of this event has got bigger each year. Veiw the all the events scheduled this year below.
Tournament Schedule
1st June
- Event 1 - World Championship Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No Limit) $5000 buy in
- Event 2 - Casino Employees Texas Hold’em (no limit) $500 buy in
2nd June
- Event 3 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
- Event 4 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
- Event 5 - Omaha Hi-low / Sud Hi-Low (Limit 8 or better) $2500 buy in
4th June
- Event 6 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
- Event 7 - Omaha with re-buys (Pot Limit) $5000 buy in
5th June
- Event 8 - Texas Hold’em with re-buys (No Limit) $1,000 buy in
- Event 9 - Omaha Hi-Low (8 or better) $1,500 buy in
6th June
- Event 10 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $2,000 buy in
- Event 11 - World Championship Seven Card Stud $5,000 buy in
7th June
- Event 12 - Texas Hold’em Six handed (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
8th June
- Event 13 - World Championship Pot Limit Texas Hold’em $5,000 buy in
- Event 14 - Seven Card Stud $1,500 buy in
9th June
- Event 15 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
- Event 16 - H.O.R.S.E (Limit) $2,500 buy in
10th June
- Event 17 - World Championship Ladies Texas Hold’em (no Limit) $1,000 buy in
- Event 18 - World Championship Limit Texas Hold’em $5,000 buy in
11th June
- Event 19 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $2,500 buy in
- Event 20 - Seven Card Stud Hi-Low (8 or better) $2,000 buy in
12th June
- Event 21 - No Limit Hold’em Shootout $1,500 buy in
13th June
- Event 22 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $5,000 buy in
14th June
- Event 23 - Omaha (Pot Limit) $1,500
- Event 24 - World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low (8 or better) $3,000 buy in
15th June
- Event 25 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $2,000 buy in
- Event 26 - H.O.R.S.E $5,000 buy in
16th June
- Event 27 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
17th June
- Event 28 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $3,000 buy in
- Event 29 - Seven Card Razz - $1,500
18th June
- Event 30 - Texas Hold’em Six Handed (No Limit) $2,250 buy in
- Event 31 - World Championship Heads Up (No Limit) $5,000 buy in
19th June
- Event 32 - Seven Card Stud $2,000 buy in
20th June
- Event 33 - Omaha with re-buys (Pot Limit) $1,500 buy in
- Event 34 - Texas Hold’em (Limit) $3,000 buy in
21st June
- Event 35 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
- Event 36 - World Championship Omaha Hi-Low (8 or better) $5,000 buy in
22nd June
- Event 37 - Texas Hold’em (Pot Limit) $2,000 buy in
23rd June
- Event 38 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
24th June
- Event 39 - World Championship H.O.R.S.E $50,000 buy in
- Event 40 - Mixed Texas Hold’em (Limit / No Limit) $1,500 buy in
25th June
- Event 41 - World Championship Seniors (No Limit) $1,000 buy in
- Event 42 - Omaha Hi-Low (Limit 8 or better) $1,500
26th June
- Event 43 - Texas Hold’em (Limit) $2,000 buy in
27th June
- Event 44 - Omaha Hi-Low Split $2,00 buy in
- Event 45 - Texas Hold’em Six Handed (No Limit) $5000 buy in
28th June
- Event 46 - Seven Card Stud Hi-Low (8 or better) $1,000 buyin
June 29th
- Event 47 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $2,000 buy in
- Event 48 - 2-7 Triple draw Lowball with re-buys (Limit) $1,000 buy in
30th June
- Event 49 - Texas Hold’em (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
1st July
- Event 50 - World Championship Pot Limit Omaha $10,000 buy in
- Event 51 - S.H.O.E $1,000 buy in
2nd July
- Event 52 - Texas Hold’em with re-buys (No Limit) $1,000 buy in
3rd June
- Event 53 - Texas Hold’em Shootout (No Limit) $1,500 buy in
4th July
- Event 54 - World Championship 2-7 Draw Lowball with re-buys (No Limit) $5,000 buy in
June 6th - 17th June
- Event 55 - World Championship Texas Holdem Main Event (No Limit) $10,000 buy in
Enter the WSOP main event through the many Satellites held at Poker Stars Online
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