Thousands to be won at WSOPE

There are many exciting events taking place at London’s Empire Casino in this year’s WSOPE, find out about them all here

Last week the official schedule for the World Series of Poker Europe 2010 was announced. This year’s event will be running from the 14th to the 28th of September and will feature a total of five events, this is one more than the four events which were part of last year’s series. This year’s series will be taking place at the Empire Casino is London’s Leicester Square.

The first event of the series is a a £2,500 no-limit Texas Hold'em 6-max event which will run for three days. There is also a £5,000 pot limit Omaha, a £1,000 no-limit Texas Hold’em (this event also features the lowest buy-in available and shall also be running for over three days), a £10,000 High Roller Heads Up no limit Texas Hold’em and finally the Main Event which shall be a £10,000 no-limit Texas Hold’em which shall be running for over five days.
In the past, main events have been won by Barry Shulman, John Juanda and Annette Obrestad.

Here is a summary of the full schedule for this year’s series:


Event Number Details Date
Event 1 £2,500 no limit Texas Hold'em 6-max 14th to 16th September
Event 2 £5,000 pot limit Omaha 16th to 8th September
Event 3 £1,000 no-limit Texas Hold'em 17th to 21st September
Event 4 £10,000 High-Roller no-limit Texas Hold'em 21st to 23rd September
Event 5 £10,000 no-limit Texas Hold'em Main Event 23rd to 28th September


At the same time, the World Series of Poker 2010 has just begun and if you are not taking part it is not yet too late to place a few bets on who you think is going to win the tournament. There are still some fantastic odds available at various betting websites and it would be a shame to miss out on such an exciting betting opportunity.
At the moment bookmaker’s favourites to win this year’s title is Phil Ivey who they have placed at 80/1. The second and third favourites are Allen Cunningham and Gus Hansen at 100/1 (the odds are taken from www.bet365.com). This year’s highest place femail player is Jennifer Harman whom they have placed at 200/1.