World Series of Poker Circuit Coming to
World Series of Poker Circuit Coming to Harrah's New Orleans May 9th
by PokerPages.com
Fri, Mar 21st, 2008 @ 12:00am
For the fifth consecutive year, the south's premier gaming spot, Harrah's New Orleans, will host the World Series of Poker Circuit with the 5th Annual Bayou Poker Challenge, running May 9 to 21, with this year's schedule including 15 major tournaments as well as multiple satellites and around-the-clock cash-game action.
Although the official tournament does not begin until May, poker players can still compete for a seat in the $5,000 buy-in main event as early as April 1st. On that special day, Harrah's New Orleans will give away 40 single-table satellite entries free-of-charge by random drawing. This means that any poker player inside the room can win a single-table satellite voucher and go on to take a seat in the main event valued at $5,150, where players will compete for a prize pool expected to exceed a million dollars.
That same day, 21 free super-satellite entries will also be awarded to players. Winners will receive a voucher (valued at $550) and will play in a special super-satellite event to be held on April 27.
That day, registration opens at 9 am and the tournament starts at 11 am. So, a player could conceivably win a huge cash prize without having to pay a single dollar! Last year's main event winner took home $516,000 for first place.
No, this is not an April Fools joke. But it will happen on April 1.
SPECIAL RATES AT HILTON RIVERSIDE HOTEL
In cooperation with Harrah's New Orleans, the Hilton Riverside Hotel is now offering a special rate for tournament participants at $95 per night. To make a room reservation, please call the Hilton New Orleans Riverside at 1-800-HILTONS and ask the special rate code: HAR.
The Hilton Riverside Hotel is located directly across the street from the casino. Rooms are expected to go fast so make reservations now.
The Bayou Poker Challenge attracts both amateurs and professionals. To date, amateur players have won in each of the first four main events. In past years, this tournament has attracted poker superstars including Chris Jesus Ferguson
Thu Mar 27th, 2008
Mark Mendel, Antigua and Barbuda's attorney in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute against the United States for blocking foreign online poker and Internet gambling operators from the American gaming market, told the Antigua Sun this week that a settlement proposal from the U.S. due by the end of this month could end their five-year trade dispute.
Wed Mar 26th, 2008
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is not canceling a $189,000 casino study contract with an internationally known gambling consultant, reports The Standard Times, even though the proposal to bring casino-style gambling to the state, which included verbiage to criminalize online poker and Internet gambling, was soundly defeated last week (click here
Rees in the tables on Qidingshenxian
United States poker star Reese on the 4th in the morning in his sleep at home in Las Vegas, died age 56, Sijianceng with pneumonia. Rees served three times in the World Poker Series champion, also won the highest possible stake is the history of the game.
Brilliant records
390,000 yuan this win 140 million gambling
Rees poker career from the start, with its mysterious, in the 20th century, the early 1970s, he had just graduated from Dartmouth College, enrolled at Stanford University Business School way through Las Vegas, in the killing poker table Tripartite since poker career started; for his classic, in 2005, in the five-HORSE poker game to 50,000 US dollars (about 39 million yuan) of this gambling, and have won 18 million US dollars (about 140 million yuan).
Friends recalled
The strongest players and good low-key
He is very successful in the tables, but people keep a low profile, he has made a lot of friends, including his opponent had lost. Rees, a close friend, the same as poker star Brunson said: I knew him 35 years, he had never tried to speak loudly or angry, I know temperament is the best, certainly the most poker players in history .
World Poker Competition director of Delaware also said: I remember there was a gambling house, he was the 1 million US dollars bet, but he bet when it is looking like few dollars general. Rees Brunson and eventually became business partners, looking for the wreckage of the Titanic, to do sports betting consultants have tried, but all failed. Rees and his wife were divorced recently, the existing one - a woman and a step-daughter, Reese s funeral was held in Las Vegas on the 5th.
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