WSOP Europe Main Event Starts Today Today, hundreds of poker players from all around the world will gather across three different London based casinos to play in the Main Event of the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe. There will be two days of day one play. Today is day 1A, tomorrow day 1B. The field will play in different casinos until it is merged into one at the Empire Casino.
Saturday, Germany's Thomas Bihl, captured the first ever World Series of Poker bracelet won outside the U.S.in the ?2,500 HORSE event and collected the historic first WSOP Europe bracelet and ?70,875 in first-place money
On Sunday, Italy's 23-year-old Dario Alioto won the Pot-Limit Omaha Championship, ?234,390
?It?s as though we?ve picked up where we left off at the Final Table of the 2007 Main Event in Las Vegas,? said WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack. ?That was the most international of tables and affirmed the global appeal of poker. Results here in London further suggest that the rest of the world has caught up to American poker professionals. This bodes well for the continued international growth of the game.?
09-10-2007, 11:50 AM
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