Sunday, July 10, 2005
World Series of Poker 2005
The 36th World Series of Poker began on June 2 in Las Vegas.
45 tournament will be played over 7 weeks and the spotlight of the tournament is the World Championship which will attract over 6600 players this year as opposed to the record breaking 2567 players last year.
The main World Series of Poker tournament will be held in Rio All-Suite Hotel in a 200 table specially constructed arena.
Last years winner of the main event, Greg Raymer won a whopping $5 million dollars but this years crowned champion will walk home with a staggering $8 Million. Not bad eh. I sure hope they don't pay the winner in cash - they'll never manage to carry it all home!
A total of $75 million in prize money will be paid out over the World Series of Poker. Last year the amount was $45.9 million. The popularity of poker has accounted for the huge increases seen over the past few years.
I'd love to see another online qualifier. The last two years they've come from Poker Stars. It's great for the online poker industry and even better if it's a UK poker player that wins - that would be topping!
45 tournament will be played over 7 weeks and the spotlight of the tournament is the World Championship which will attract over 6600 players this year as opposed to the record breaking 2567 players last year.
The main World Series of Poker tournament will be held in Rio All-Suite Hotel in a 200 table specially constructed arena.
Last years winner of the main event, Greg Raymer won a whopping $5 million dollars but this years crowned champion will walk home with a staggering $8 Million. Not bad eh. I sure hope they don't pay the winner in cash - they'll never manage to carry it all home!
A total of $75 million in prize money will be paid out over the World Series of Poker. Last year the amount was $45.9 million. The popularity of poker has accounted for the huge increases seen over the past few years.
I'd love to see another online qualifier. The last two years they've come from Poker Stars. It's great for the online poker industry and even better if it's a UK poker player that wins - that would be topping!
