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[Poker News Online, Online Poker Blog] Poker series moves to roomier casino: Players gain entry to World Series tournaments either by buying a seat -- most preliminaries require a buy-in of $1,000 to $2,500 and the championship is $10,000 -- or by qualifying in so-called satellite tournaments. Satellites are held in either real casinos or on Internet poker Web sites, where players pay smaller buy-ins and vie for a World Series seat. Harrah's officials say checks, some of them in seven figures, have been arriving regularly as satellite tournament sponsors send in their fees for players who have won those stepping-stone events. The opening field for the World Championship will start in three flights July 7-9.

[Lasvegasvegas.com] Las Vegas and Poker Blog -: Having spent a number of years covering the WSOP at the Horseshoe and remembering trying to crowd more people into Benny's Bullpin than would fit; I, for one, am looking forward to this year's uptown tournament. Of course, I'll miss many of the things that were downtown traditional to the World Series of Poker; but I won't miss the lousy lighting that made good photos an impossibility. I won't miss the crowded corridors that were impossible to navigate, nor will I miss that peculiar odor that had permeated the Horseshoe the last few years. I will miss knowing about the best parking spaces, the shortcut into the coffee shop, secret passageways, lower levels and even the ghosts that are always just out of sight in the old place.

[Lasvegasvegas.com] Las Vegas and Poker Blog: WSOP Eight Event Final <img src="http ...: GIANG began playing tournaments in the early 90s and won two gold bracelets at the World Series of Poker – for Ace-to-Five Lowball in 1993 and Omaha High-Low Split in 1998. Despite his success, GIANG quit the tournament circuit for many years – choosing instead to focus on high-limit cash games. He didn’t play at the World Series of Poker for a number of years and only recently decided to return to the Horseshoe, because – he says – “tournaments are the only place to find a big game.”

[Lasvegasvegas.com] Las Vegas and Poker Blog: WSOP Event Ten Final <img src="http ...: CYNDY VIOLETTE, a high-limit professional poker player based in Atlantic City, opposed PETE KAUFMAN, an 80-year-old local most commonly seen playing in small-buy-in tournaments in Las Vegas. Both players effectively “earned” the event’s one and only gold bracelet through decades of persistence. Minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years have literally been spent by these two players at the poker table making one strategic decision at a time, surely resulting in the play of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of poker hands. The zenith of each player’s lifetime of devotion to the game of poker brought the two finalists to a heads-up confrontation that clocked in at well over four hours.

[Lasvegasvegas.com] Las Vegas and Poker Blog: WSOP Event Eleven Final <img src="http ...: The eleventh event of the World Series of Poker is now history. Eli Balas of Las Vegas, Nevada finished on top of the field of 237 entrants. Eli beat second place finisher, Steven Shkolnik of Los Angeles, and received $174,440 for the win with Steven collecting $95,820 (officially, in reality Balas and Shkolnik struck a deal). Third place finisher, Peter Nichols, of Sumner, Washington takes home $49,060 from the total prize pool of $545,100.The win tonight makes Eli just the thirty-fifth player to have lifetime WSOP winnings of more than a million dollars.

[Upforanything.net] Up For Poker Blog: Antiperspirant for the Average Blogger: Not to be a complete newbie at this... but how does one "claim" the prize? Is the registration for this seat going to be arranged through PokerStars, or is the winner simply EXPECTED to take the $1500 prize and pay the entry fee on their own?

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