
The 44th Annual WSOP gets underway on May 29 with the first event of a total of 62 tournaments. Event 1 is the $500 Casino Employees NLHE that runs for two days. And beginning later that afternoon is Event 2, a $5,000 8-handed NLHE event that will play out over four days. The first $1K NLHE event of the series begins on May 30, and May 31 offers a $1,500 NLHE 6-Handed tournament and $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card Stud Hi-Low 8-or-Better event. Both of those are scheduled for three days. That leads to a heavy list of tournaments for the month of June, all a part of the excitement of the WSOP at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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by Jennifer Newell(05/16/2013)
The 2013 Spring Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars began on May 12 and brought a cumulative guarantee of $40 million with it. But if players know anything about SCOOP, it's that the tournaments almost always exceed the guarantees, so many more millions of dollars were likely to be in play. Read Full Story »
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