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ONE FREE WSOP SEAT STILL UP FOR GRABS!!
If nothing else, the 57-event World Series of Poker "season" once again proved that poker players of any skill level can ride a wave of good play and good luck all the way to a WSOP bracelet. Look no further than the Main Event, where Darvin Moon and Phil Ivey tussled in front of the ESPN cameras at the final table in one of the unlikeliest of poker scenarios. One qualified for the event by winning a satellite tournament at the Wheeling Island Casino in West Virginia, the other jet sets across the globe in search of a game.
While professional players acquitted themselves rather well this year, amateurs took home bracelets and crashed final tables throughout the six-week tournament. But with the 2009 WSOP now in the rear view, speculation begins about the 2010 tournament. How many players will play in next year’s Main Event? Will more records be set? Will the Main Event final table continue to produce a hodge-podge of professional and amateur players from all over the world?
Seats are already being awarded for the 2010 WSOP Main Event, where solid play and a few lucky breaks will produce another Joe Cada – the newly minted millionaire who now has the sports world at his fingertips and a target resting squarely on his back.
Waylon Carr, from the town of Amery, Wisconsin, is already ticketed for next year’s Main Event, thanks to Milwaukee’s Best Light, now in their 4th year as sponsor of the WSOP. Waylon won his $10,000 seat by capturing the weekly free-roll tournament at WSOP.com, then defeating 400 other poker players in the final tournament. He and a guest will enjoy an all-expenses paid trip to Las Vegas next July where Waylon will compete in the Main Event.
