Newsletter: Volume 3 - Issue 14

You read it right…SunPoker is doing it again by offering you FIVE different way to get to the 2011 World Series of Poker!

Warrior Master League

An 8 event MTT Master league that starts off with a one time entry of $200 + $15 that will gain you access to all eight events. Once entered all you have to do is play the best you can, finish as high as you can, gain points for every tournament played, and you’ll win prizes based on your final position in the league.

http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_WSOPWarrior.asp

No Limit Hold’Em Main Event Packages

If you are looking for entry to the WSOP Main Event and having your hotel and airfare paid for, the this is the tournament for you!

The Main Event tournaments will be running daily with the first Super Satellites being held this Sunday April 10th at 21:00 with the buy-in set at $500+$35

Supper Satellites will be held every Sunday at the same time until June 19th 2011 where the last Main Event Package will be awarded.

http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_2011WSOPMainEvent.asp

Winners of the $13,000 Main Event Package will receive;

• $10,000 buy-in to the WSOP Main Event (Event #58)
• $980 for 7 Nights’ accommodation at one of Vegas’ posh strip hotels.
• $250 for registration fees.
• $1,770 for flights and spending.

Side Events Package

You didn’t think the WSOP was the Main Event only now did you? Of course not, there are hundreds of Side Events happening weeks before the Main Event, with just as great cash and WSOP bracelets to be won!

With one SunPoker’s Side Event Packages you are now able to play in not one BUT two of the most popular Side Events for a shot at a WSOP Bracelet! http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_2011WSOPSideEventsExperience.asp

Winners of the $5,500 Side Event package will receive;

• $1,500 buy-in to a WSOP Side Event (Event #48).
• $1,000 buy-in to a WSOP Side Event (Event #54)
• $1,260 for 9 Nights’ accommodation at one of Vegas’ posh strip hotels
• $75 for registration fees.
• $1,665 for flights and spending.

Weekly Super Satellites will be hosted every Tuesday at 21:00 with a Buy-In of $200+$15 for the Side Events Package with daily tournaments to satellite into the Tuesday finals starting a lower buy-in

Experience Package

If it’s the experience of the WSOP of Vegas its self you’re looking for, then SunPoker’s Experience Package is the one for you!

The $3,500 Experience Package will take you to fabulous Las Vegas for 5 full nights to enjoy the excitement of the Vegas Strip and try your luck on WSOP Side Event #48

http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_2011WSOPExperience.asp

The full Experience Package includes;

• $1,500 buy-in to a WSOP Side Event (Event #48).
• $700 for 5 Nights’ accommodation at one of Vegas’ posh strip hotels.
• $50 for registration fees.
• $1,250 for flights and spending.

Entry to Supper Satellites for this package is set at $11 + $1.1 with daily ongoing satellites at a lower buyin. Doesn’t get any cheaper to head to Las Vegas.

Pot-Limit Omaha Championship Package

Ohh Omaha Players we didn’t forget about you!

You get to enjoy and amazing $13,000 at this years WSOP with direct entry into the Omaha Championship tournament and a package that will include;

http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_2011WSOPPotLimitOmaha.asp

• $10,000 buy-in to the WSOP PLO Championship (Event #42).
• $700 for 5 Nights’ accommodation at one of Vegas’ posh strip hotels.
• $250 for registration fees.
• $2,050 for flights and spending.

Entry to the final table of the Supper Satellite to win a Pot-Limit Omaha package is set at $107 + $9 with daily tournaments going for much less also.

So there you have it, five different ways to get to this years World Series of Poker, pick one or pick’em all, the choice is really yours!

What will your 2011 WSOP Experience be like this time around?

MTT TOURNAMENT RACE CONTINUES

As the WSOP Warrior builds its momentum, we want you to keep the MTT Leaderboard in mind!

The MTT race that caters to the multi table tournament player offering an extremely generous $150K prize pool including several $5000 WSOP packages continues this weekend and runs until May 31st

Increasing your odds of a securing a WSOP package along with increasing your bankroll is particularly effortless, all you have to do is play in ANY of the MTT scheduled tournaments (excluding satellites and private tournaments), in the tournaments listed in the SunPoker software under the name “MTT leader board.

With our MTT Tournament a variety of games are offered daily, but as with any race there are always a few games favored over others; to help you out, we’ve put together a short list of the most popular weekend games

Keeping track of your points is just easy also, the point formula and a full break down of the cash winning along with a daily updated leader board for the current MTT Race is located directly on SunPoker’s website;

http://www.sunpoker.com/promotions/promo_50kMTTLB.asp

This MTT Tournament Race truly is a race dedicated to multi table tournament players, providing a verity of games and admirable prize pool along with a great opportunity to be part of the 2011 World Series of Poker

WSOP announce “Rematch” event

At the World Series of Poker this year there is to be a new event called the WSOP Rematches. There will be three match-ups in total with Chris Moneymaker taking on Sammy Farha in the first, Johnny Chan up against Phil Hellmuth in the second, and the third match has yet to be decided.

The WSOP Rematches will be repeats of the greatest heads-up battles ever seen in the main event, with players playing a best of thee format. The matches will be played on Thursday 2nd June with the Moneymaker/Farha game up first. In the first game of a best of three series the players will start with the exact same stacks they had when their heads-up battle commenced, and in the second game the stacks will be reversed so each player starts with the other players stack. If the scores are level after two games a third match will be played with each players starting with the same amount of chips.

When Moneymaker won the main event in 2003, poker really took off and that one game is attributed to the attention the game now receives. Moneymaker was a complete unknown when he won eight years ago and nobody gave him a hope of beating the experienced Farha. The second match will be a repeat of the 1989 duel between Johnny Chan and Phil Hellmuth, when Chan was going for a extraordinary three bracelets in a row at the main event. As you most probably know Hellmuth defeated him and won his first WSOP bracelet and in doing so became the youngest WSOP champion to date.

The third match has yet to be decided and fans will be able to vote for their favourite by visiting the WSOP facebook page, and matches include last years battle between Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener.

Source: www.pokernewsboy.com

You may want to select 4 of your best poker playing friends as next week we will be announcing The Five a Side Poker Championship where you and your buddies will have a chance to cash in on a $100,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool!

Stay tune to www.sunpoker.com for more details.

History of WSOP

With the summers greatest land based poker tournament upon us it’s only fair to remind ourselves of the History of the WSOP!

The idea of a World Series of Poker began in 1969 with an event called the Texas Gambling Reunion. It was as an invitational event sponsored by Tom Moore of San Antonio, Texas, and held at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno. The set of tournaments that the World Series of Poker (WSOP) would evolve into was the brainchild of Las Vegas casino owner and poker player Benny Binion. In 1970, the first WSOP at Binion's Horseshoe took place as a series of cash games.

The first event hosted was via invitation to 6 of Binion poker playing friends, fast forward 12 years to 1982 where the tournament started to grow in popularity extending to 52 participants where after just 2 more years there were over 2,100 entrants in the entire series.  

The first World Series of Poker was not a freeze-out tournament, but rather an event with a set start and stop time, with the winner determined by secret ballot. In 1973, five-card stud was added as a second event. By 2007 the WSOP consisted of 55 side events.  While the traditional tournament wrapped up events within a few days, in 2008, a new tradition was introduced where the final table of Main Event will be played on a later date.

The winner of each event receives a World Series of Poker bracelet and a monetary prize based on the number of entrants and buy-in amounts. A World Series of Poker bracelet is considered the most coveted prize or trophy a poker player can win, with one from the Main Event revered above all others. Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP. WSOP victories prior to 1976 are also known as "bracelets". Most of the major poker variants are featured, though in recent years over half of the events have been variants of Texas hold 'em.

In 2004, Harrah's Entertainment purchased Binion's Horseshoe, kept the rights to the Horseshoe and World Series of Poker brands and announced that the 2005 Series events would be held at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino…and the rest as they would say is history.