The schedule of WSOP 2009 released

• Author: Qid
• Filed under: High Stakes News, Poker, WSOP
• Date: Jan 26,2009

WSOP 2009 will be 40th annual series and that will be celebrated with special $40k buy-in tournament. The tournament is called “40th Annual No-Limit Holdem” and it will be second tournament or first open-field tournament of WSOP 2009 after the casino employees tournament.

In over 50 days in next summer, total of 57 new WSOP bracelets will be rewarded for the tournament winners. Or actually the 57th bracelet and the most coveted one will be rewarded once again little later, as there will be another “November Nine”, when the final table of the Main Event of WSOP 2009 will be played on 7th to 10th of November.

There will be 10 different $10,000 “World Championship” event which all are played in different disciplines of poker. For third time there will be a charity tournament, “Ante Up For Africa” with $5k buy-in. It will be played a day before the Main Event and will surely attract many celebrities and top poker pros.

As it was rumored, there won’t be any rebuy events in 2009, but one tournament is called “Triple Chance No-Limit Hold’em”. Also, this year there will be many low buy-in tournaments, which can be an outcome of current downturn in the global market.

WSOP 2009 will also feature a $1,000 buy-in “stimulus special” NL Hold’em tournament ,which is anticipated to draw the largest-ever live tournament field excluding the Main Event. It will be held at the opening weekend and for sure will attract a very large field.

The whole schedule and more information about the series can be found from the website of WSOP.