The field for the WSOP Tournament of Champions has been announced and contains 20 of the worlds most prominent poker all stars. With $1 million dollars in prize money up for grabs, the play is sure to  of the highest caliber.

Poker’s very first fan-voted Tournament of Champions will feature 20 of the game’s most notable players, as 355,081 votes were cast to determine who will compete for $1 million in prize money in the 2010 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions on Sunday, June 27 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
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The 2010 World Series of Poker starts this Friday with the $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em event, and the much anticipated $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship.

The first four days of the $50,000 event will be played in an eight-game format (Limit Hold’em, Omaha Hi-Low, Razz, Seven Card Stud, Stud Hi-Low, No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha, and 2-7 Triple Draw), and on the fifth day for the final table, the format will switch to just No Limit Hold’em. (more…)

Each year, people all over the world make New Year’s resolutions. Some folks want to lose weight, some want to focus more on their careers, but a professional poker player has a different set of goals in mind. On his blog, popular poker player, Daniel Negreanu, detailed eight (8) separate goals he is setting out to accomplish in 2010.

In order, here are the goals he detailed:

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Do we sense a feud between two of the biggest poker pros in the world, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth?

It sure looks that way.

This week on Negreanu’s blog, the Canadian player called UB.com spokesperson “delusional”.

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Las Vegas, NV, July 17, 2009 –(PR.com)– Thousands of online poker enthusiasts know them as their instructors. But as the 2009 World Series of Poker wrapped up July 16, thousands more were reminded that they are also champions.

The pros that make up the faculty of Poker VT – a leading online poker site that trains players of all levels – cashed for a combined total of $839,257 over the course of the series. Leading the pack was the Poker VT Team Captain, Daniel Negreanu, who finished out the series with two final tables and eight cashes for a total of $331,860 in winnings.
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(South Shore, Lake Tahoe, NV.) – World renowned poker player Daniel Negreanu has accepted an invitation to compete in the 20th anniversary of the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament this July, making him the first professional poker player to ever participate in the event.

“I’ll be looking for ‘Aces’ on a different green,” said Negreanu, who will be competing with other celebrities, including Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Tony Romo and more, in the three-day, 54-hole Stableford competition, taking place from July 17-19 at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course in Lake Tahoe, NV.

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(As reported on Casino City Times)LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Huck Seed outdueled and outlasted an elite field of 63 of poker’s best to win the 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Championship presented by GoDaddy.com at the Caesars Palace Poker Tournament Room.
          Seed defeated Vanessa Rousso in the tournament’s best-of-three final table to claim the championship from a group that boasted more than 100 World Series bracelets and take home the $500,000 first-place prize.
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The taping of the highly-anticipated fifth season of HIGH STAKES POKER™ was filmed at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas December 19-21. 

The new season features the returns of poker stars Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson and Eli Elezra, along with players new to HIGH STAKES POKER such as Tom Dwan and reigning World Champion Peter Eastgate, and recreational players like “The Simpsons†creator Sam Simon, Bob Safai and film director Nick Cassavetes. The stakes have never been higher for the players as the minimum cash buy-in of $200,000 is the largest buy-in for an entire run of a television series. The show returns to the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV where HIGH STAKES POKER SEASON ONE took place.

Here are some images from the taping on December 19-21:

                                   
                                          

               

                           

Players include:

PATRIK ANTONIUS
MIKE BAXTER
DAVID BENYAMINE 
DOYLE BRUNSON
NICK CASSAVETES
IVAN DEMIDOV
TOM DWAN
PETER EASTGATE 
ELI ELEZRA 
ANTONIO ESFANDIARI
BARRY GREENSTEIN
PHIL HELLMUTH
PHIL IVEY
PHIL LAAK
HOWARD LEDERER
GIORGIO MEDICI
DARIO MINIERI
DANIEL NEGREANU
ILARI SAHAMIES 
BOB SAFAI
SAM SIMON 

(Las Vegas, NV) – In what seems to be another great year for the World Series of Poker, the staple poker pros are showing their prowess with several top cashes and four first place finishes…so far. With online poker sites, satalite tournaments from around the world and other means of feeding players into the annual famed poker tournaments, the competition has been tough with the appearance of the household names dwindling in years past…but their back!

To kick things off with the third event of the year, the $1,500 Pot Limit Hold em event, David Singer beat 713 players to take home $214,122. Then, last week, Erik Lindgren claimed the $5,000 buy-in Mixed Hold’em event and $374,505 when he outlasted 332 players. Then on Wednesday (June 11) Mike “The Mouth” Matusow beat 85 players and claimed the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw Lowball event and $537,857 against a final table filled with the best players in the world. And then, to add to the excitement, last night (June 12) Canadian poker pro Daniel Negreanu outlasted 480 players in the $2,000 Limit Hold-em event and walked away with $204,863.

Pictured below are the staple pros who have top ten finishes in the four events mentioned in this post. In order from left to right are: (Top Row) David Singer, Erick Lindgren, Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, , Roland de Wolfe. (Second Row) Howard Lederer, David Williams, Barry Greenstein and Tony “G” Guoga.

         

         

For the record, that is $1,331,347 claimed by four individuals…who are extremely well-known poker players. Also, don’t think that these guys are playing easy fields by any means. Of the four events, there were a total of 1,610 players entered. In each of these four tournaments, the final tables consisted of several other seasoned veterans such as Roland de Wolfe (Lindgren’s Tourney-Placed 4th for $117,030), Howard Lederer (Lindgren’s Tourney-Placed 6th for $74,119), David Williams (Lindgren’s Tourney-Placed 7th for $58,515), Barry Greenstein (Matusow’s Tourney-Placed 3rd for $225,553), Erick Lindgren (Matusow’s Tourney-Placed 4th for $156,152), and Tony “G” Guoga (Matusow’s Tourney-Placed 6th for $78,076). Add up the total take from the four winners and these additional six (Lindgren listed twice) and you get an astounding $2,040,792! 

While the $10,000 No-Limit WSOP Championship Event doesn’t take place until next month, it will host around 5,000 (or more) players. If the preliminary events are to serve as any indicators, look for big name action at the final table.