What started out with just six players in 1970 has turned into the game’s grandest spectacle, a record 75,672 entries in 58 events creating the largest prize pool in WSOP history: $191,999,010.
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With the end of the final three hands, our surviving players will come back on Thursday for Day 3 of the Main Event – the first day where all remaining players will be playing at the same time. The current chip leader will be Aleksandr Mozhnyakov……
Read more: http://www.pokernews.com/live-reporting/2011-world-series-of-poker/event-58-no-limit-hold-em-championship/
The biggest live poker tournament of the year, the $10,000 main event, will take place beginning on July 7 there will be four starting days for this event. After Days 2A and 2B there will be a day off and then players will play six more days until the final table, the November Nine, is reached on Tuesday, July 19. The final nine players will return to Las Vegas and compete for the bracelet on Nov. 5-7. The final table will be broadcast on ESPN on Nov. 8.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/poker/news/story?id=6054746
Official site http://www.wsop.com/
Chess players at the world series of poker…….(No.6 player of the world) GM Hikaru Nakamura ……
Nakamura will be playing Tuesday on Day “2B”, Day 3 is on Thursday July 13 where the players merge into one group …….
This year, there are a total of over 6800 players competing for a first prize of around $8.7 million. There’s no convenient list of chess players who are taking part, but at least one of the world’s elite is taking his chances
http://chess.about.com/b/2011/07/10/chess-at-the-world-series-of-poker.htm
Go is good at teaching itself to you,” “. . . at the border of the discrete and the continuous,” “. . . thought made visible to itself.” I especially enjoyed his riff explaining why “light” is better than “heavy,” yet “thick” is better than “thin.” Lantz goes on with a similarly eloquent description of poker, which he finds to be about “the alchemical transformative power of greed.”……………….
http://www.usgo.org/news/2011/07/go-spotting-go-poker-and-the-sublime/
After a break play resumed Day 2B of the 2011 WSOP Main Event. The blinds have been increased to 500-1,000 with a 100 ante.
About an hour into the round with 30k Nakamura Goes all in with K K vs 8 8….8 hits on the flop (Busted) …Next Year !
Two time American Women ‘s Chess Champ. Jennifer Shahade http://twitpic.com/5rf3gx