The World Series of Poker 2005 started yesterday with the Dealer's Tournament. This is the beginning of a six week convention of poker which culminates with the week-long $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Championship. Last year, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer won the Championship and $5,000,000 after beating a record-setting 2575 players. This year, they are expecting over 5000 players to enter the Championship.

But that is a long way away.

Today is the $1500 No-Limit Hold'em event. Last year Scott Fischman, the best playing member of "The Crew", beat 280 other people to win $300,000.

I'll be keeping tabs on all the events over the next 6 weeks and I'll post about them here.

Damn I wish had cable for these kinda things.

cprlcoffee wrote:Damn I wish had cable for these kinda things.

you have plenty of time

espn won't start airing the wsop for many weeks

does anyone here play poker online for money? the recent sports illustrated article on online poker was fascinating.

Ultimatebet.com has good live coverage of the WSOP, at least of the main event -- I like the guy who blogs for them.

Maybe we should put together a local tourney, shh...

UltimateBet has a page, http://www.pokerwire.com/ , where you can get up to the minute results of poker tournaments.

I'm more of a http://www.pokerpages.com person myself, and I subscribe to Mike Paulle's Poker Blog RSS feed so it comes up in my News reader.

If I'm not getting enough info there. I sometimes check out http://www.CardPlayer.com for updates. It's also fun to check their Player of the Year standings.

Last year, I watched the final table over at PokerStars while chatting w/ some guys in the 2+2 IRC channel. That was pretty fun.

Am I the only one who thinks that it's way past due for ESPN to be giving updates of poker tournaments on SportsCenter? I realize they don't want to spoil it for the people who are going to watch their coverage a few months later, but c'mon!, it's big news to some of us.

I read part of that SI article. Nothing really that new. Hopefully though, it will get even more people playing online. I'm hoping that this weekend will be a great weekend online.

waltermalling wrote:does anyone here play poker online for money? the recent sports illustrated article on online poker was fascinating.

I've included a link to PokerRoom in my signature. I know of at least two other guys on this board who play there.

Check out this picture of the playing room at The Rio!



There's at least 200 tables.

PokerRoom is still running the $6 qualifiers for the main event walter, if you wanna give it a shot. You got to play through 3 tournaments but you're only losing a few dollars as opposed to $10,000.

russ wrote:Am I the only one who thinks that it's way past due for ESPN to be giving updates of poker tournaments on SportsCenter? I realize they don't want to spoil it for the people who are going to watch their coverage a few months later, but c'mon!, it's big news to some of us.

ESPN is currently way too busy with their Spelling Bee coverage.