OPENING DAY EVERYONE HAD GREAT EXPECTATIONS:
Heads Up, all you poker players everywhere! It's time once again for the Poker World Championship. Where In Vegas, of course. This year the beautiful Bellagio Hotel is host to the World Poker Tour's biggest challenge. Day one of the fun was held in the enclosed Fontana Bar lounge with 210 entrants present. But never fear, it is not too late for you to fly into Vegas and get in the game. Oh, be sure and empty your piggy bank before leaving home. The entry fee to buy a seat at one of the tables is only $25,000.00. And if your game is not at its best, you could be on your way back home the next day.Yes, this game is for the real pros. Uniquely they count the first day, Saturday, and the second day, Sunday, as Day One. This gives everyone who wishes to be entered as a contestant a chance to arrive and join their other card cohorts in a full week of elimination play. With an anticipated 450 poker players expected to register for the tournament, the competition will be fiercely focused on one thing..... "winning that big pot of gold"! Now this is not some friendly little game with the boys. Players come to win and to win big! This one will bring out all the poker celebrities that show up every night on the NBC "Poker After Dark" program that follows Leno, Conan and Carson Daly. You can count on legends like Billy Baxter, Erik Seidel, Michael Mizrachi, Scott Clements and Phil Hellmuth to be there ready to take home a big bag of cash! During the last five years, The Travel Channel was& the one who regularly broadcasted all the events related to the World Poker Tour. Starting year GSN, The Game Network, has plans to add the poker events to its Friday "Casino Night" lineup. And the cameras are rolling all week at the Bellagio so as not to miss one exciting moment of World Championship Poker. But the Star of the Show will be the man that has been named The Babe Ruth Of Poker", the one and only, Doyle Brunson. As a Ten Time Winner of the World Series of Poker, no one holds a candle to the expertise this man has once the cards have been dealt. Who would think a 72 year old man would be getting sharper every year he plays? But that is just the case. His signature cowboy hat and big grin are stock in trade for this Master of the Game. Many people recognize him from the commercial on TV where he is playing poker at a table and Pamela Anderson comes over and gives him a kiss on the cheek. And when the History Channel did a special documentary on Brunson's earlier days while establishing himself as the legend he has become, Doyle gave them a quote that sums up his secret for winning those Ten World Series of Poker Events. The wisdom imparted from the Babe Ruth of Poker was, "to be a successful gambler, you have to have a complete disregard for money." Okay, who wants to deal the cards?