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The World Series of Poker Europe is being played in The Casino at the Empire in London, England from September 18 to October 1 and will consist of 4 events total. Many of the faces that came from all around the globe for the WSOP in Las Vegas, Nevada, will take seats at these tables. Just like in the 2009 World Series of Poker tournaments held in Las Vegas at the RIO earlier this year, the World Series of Poker Europe will reward the champion players with gold bracelets. Also added to the line up is the Caesar’s Cup which will pit the best players in the Americas verses the best players on the other side of the ocean. Daniel Negreanu will head the Americas team while Annette Obrestad who won the first WSOPE Main Event at 18, will lead the European team. While there will be no bracelet awarded in the Caesar’s Cup, the winner will have massive bragging rights and a ton of ESPN cameras to witness the whole affair. And Betfair who is presenting the entire event, has added a Million Dollar Freeroll that will have 1 person of a group of 18 qualifiers who won their seats online take home $1 million US dollars for their efforts. This also is not a bracelet event, but with 1 million dollars you can design your own bracelet.
Highly expected to take seats at the tables are Neil “Bad Beat” Channing, Ian Woodley, Howard Lederer, Jesper Hougaard, James Akenhead of the November Nine, Sherkhan Farnood, Andy Bloch, James Keys, Raymond Rahme, Jeff Madsen, Roland DeWolfe, Eric Seidel, David “Devilfish” Ulliott, Phil Hellmuth Jr., Suriander Sunar and Richard Kellett just to name a few.
In past events, incredible battles have taken place at the WSOPE. The year 2007 saw Annette Obrestad win the largest amount ever for a woman in any sporting event when she won the first Main Event, taking home £1 million pounds or $2,013,102 in U.S. dollars. Also last year saw John Juanda hammer it out for 21 hours at the final table to take the second Main Event title. This is truly an international event with gold bracelets on the arms of champions going home to the countries of Denmark (2), Afghanistan, Germany, Italy, Norway and USA so far.
This will be filmed and shown by ESPN, so don’t think the hot table action is slowing down from Las Vegas as the Main Event gets to the final table. In 2008, players came from 124 nations to participate in tournaments at the RIO. The WSOP has evolved into a global competition, so watch the broadca