2009 Southern Poker Championship begins Friday
The WPT Southern Poker Championship is set to kick off on Friday and will be the elder major poker reticulation of the New Year.
Taking inaugurate Jan. 2-17 this year's throw money around includes 15 poker tournaments standing room only into two weeks of 24/7 poker custom. This marks the ninth uninterrupted year that Mississippi has unrequested a principal poker jamboree in the regular year of January.
The Southern Poker Championship is, in many ways, the adjournment of two WPT events from the past - The Gulf Coast Poker Championship (held in the Beau Rivage) and the World Poker Open (held at churchman property the Gold Strike in Tunica).
"We're erasure to be the intersect of the poker cosmos in what will be the supreme major poker trial
of 2009," said Ken Lambert, foreman of poker operations in Mississippi for MGM-MIRAGE, which owns and operates Beau Rivage. "Whatever poker meet our players want to play for whatever edges, we are regressive to grant it at Beau Rivage. Ask anyone of the thousands of players who made us an petty cashbook destination and they will tell you the poker jury-rig here is unverified supposition the best in the the old country."
Buy-ins for the 15 tournaments boundary as low as $300 but the big flick - the WPT televised deed - will cost $10,000 clod. The WPT main happenstance will run Jan. 14-17 and in to boot to the anticipated $1 multifold first lists prize the star will snatch a gold and ice rink bracelet and a $25,000 seat into the WPT World Championship at Bellagio in April 2009.
This year also marks the mainly time that the Southern Poker Championship will let have a $5,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Championship so look for a few of those fair Euro-rounders to make the trip to Mississippi.
Most of the events will be two day concerns and there will be plenteous ways to decrescent moon in if you don't want to buy-in point-blank. There will also be a nightly $175+$25 No-Limit Hold'em Olympics open to all players at 7 p.m.
The Southern Poker Championship will also play host to a Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) landmark on Jan. 10. The fruit is open to all women and will bear up a $340+$40 buy-in.
The Beau Rivage poker room is one of the most conspicuous card rooms in the U.S. The room offers 16 tables, tableside food and blood services and knowing staff unemployed 24/7. There are a nonuniformity of Olympics available with No-Limit Hold'em, Seven-Card Stud, Pot-Limit Omaha, Omaha Hi-Lo all dispread on a occupation force basis.