World Series Of Poker
The World Series in the poker world is the biggest event of poker in the calendar year. All of the poker’s biggest names attend the tournament in hope of getting the biggest prize money that is in millions of dollars. The biggest names attract biggest crowd in the tournament and the matches are usually, a treat to watch, as the players tend to give everything to hit the jackpot.
Different players have different skill set when it comes to playing poker, and thus it is a fascinating thing to see two players of contrasting styles, battling it out in the biggest arena of the poker world.
The stakes are so high in the world series of poker. The biggest prize won in the 2006 championship was 120000000 dollars. This amount of money makes the players to prepare for a whole year in advance for the competition.
The game of poker is very different to the other games. There are many variants of the games and most of them are quite popular among the players. In fact, many players try their luck in more then one variant of the game in the tournament.
2006 was a big year in the poker world as the world series of poker was held in Las Vegas, which is the head quarter of the poker game. The events spared over 2 months with players competing in all sorts of poker related activities. The overall money at stake was in billions of dollars. The following variants of poker were tried and tested in the games: Hold’em Poker (Limit, No limit etc), Omaha Hi Lo Split, H.O.R.S.E and many more.
Most of the games were carried on for more than a day. Normally, a game takes three days or more. The games in this way provide players and spectators equal opportunity to enjoy the games and earn some money.
World Series of poker is telecasted live by most of the sports channels around the world, like espn. The official TV channel in the 2006 world poker series was Card Player, which is a dedicated channel, providing 24/7 of non stop poker fun.
There are separate referees that are assigned task of monitoring the players, so that it is understood that no one is playing a false hand. As there is a lot of money at stake, the players are advised to play according to rules of the game, devised by the executives, and the players not playing by the rules, are disqualified.
