Jack Effel, Shuffle Up and Deal!
After a seating glitch had more than one player assigned to the same seat, the 2011 edition of the World Series of Poker began it's 51 day summer run at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in las Vegas at half past noon today. With those immortal words, "Shuffle Up and Deal!," WSOP tournament director, Jack Effel, put the cards in the air for the most famous poker games of all times.
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Welcome to the 2011 World Series of Poker click for gallery image
Only two days remain before the famous "Shuffle Up and Deal" command will announce to the thousands of poker players at the hundreds of poker tables in the gargantuan poker room of the 2011 World Series of Poker at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas the start of the 2011 WSOP.
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Ten handed final table of the 2010 WSOP Main Event click for gallery image
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Stratosphere Poker Room
Early this morning, Tuesday April 20, a lone gunman attempted to rob the Stratosphere Casino Hotel poker room. The suspect, described by the Metro Police Department as being 5'10" 160 lbs, in his early twenties, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and waving a handgun, failed to find any cash or chips after he jumped over the counter into the poker room's cashier cage.
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November final table of the 2010 WSOP Main Event
Now's the time to start training and getting your body used to Red Bulls, because...
The new World Series of Poker schedule is here! (And you only have 126 days to prepare.)
Beginning May 31 and running through July 19 (with the Main Event on July 7), there will be 58 events (one more than last year) which will make it the largest WSOP in its 42 years.
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Legends of Poker - Phil Hellmuth, Dan Harrington, Doyle Brunson, Jack Binion, Eric Seidel
Professional poker players Dan Harrington and Eric Seidel were inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame on Monday evening before the start of the WSOP Main Event heads-up play. Frank Kassela was presented with $30K of 2011-2013 WSOP buy-ins for his 2010 Player of the Year award. On hand for the ceremony were many of poker's superstars and VIPs including Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson and Jack Binion.
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Jonathan Duhamel, 2010 WSOP World Poker Champion - Click for gallery image
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Spoils await the winner of the 2010 WSOP Main Event Monday night
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Michael Mizrachi contemplates his next move at the feature table
Tonight's episode of the 2010 WSOP Main Event will begin with just 48 players remaining from the 7319 hopefuls taking a $10,000 seat on Day 1 last August. At the end of tonight's segment there will be 27 of those hopefuls still in the hunt for the almost $9,000,000 reserved for the winner from the $68,798,600 prize pool.
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2010 WSOP Main Event Day 5 ESPN feature table
Day 5 of the 2010 Main Event at the Rio Resort in Las Vegas begins with 574 players remaining in the hunt for poker's most elusive treasure, the World Champion Poker Player's Bracelet. Of course, it's a fair assumption that the $8.9 million in cash awaiting the winner in November probably does provide a degree or two of motivation.
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