The 2009 WSOP starts this evening in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.   The premium tournemant series of the poker calendar.

 Tonight we start off with the highest buy-in NL Holdem event in the series 40 years history.  It’s a massive $40,000 buy-in and likely to attract a very premium field of players.

Barry Greenstein, the robin hood of poker, has made a prediction of just over 220 players.  I am sure he wont be far wrong.  

The starting chips for this event are a very nice 120,000 with the blinds starting at 200/400.  Blind intervals run at 60 mins per level.  There is plenty of room for a lot of skill, and I wouldnt be surprised to see a final table of at least 5 or 6 very big names.   Great for entertainment purposes, so look out for it.

We’ll do some round ups later into the series but for now, good luck at the tables.