Poker News 18/09/09

32Red Poker News Round Up

WSOPE gets underway in London

The World Series of Poker Europe gets underway in earnest on Friday with the start of the £1000+£75 No Limit Hold’em event at mid-day.  The stars of world poker are expected to attend the two week festival with Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu already in town.

Champagne flowed at the Thursday launch party in Leicester Square as 18 online qualifiers took part in a £1 million freeroll tournament.  The remaining tournaments at the WSOPE look like this:

Fri, Sep 18th 12:00 PM
4-Day Event No-Limit Hold’em (Event 1)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
£1,000 + £75

Mon, Sep 21st 12:00 PM
3-Day Event Pot Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha (Event 2)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
£2,500 + £150

Wed, Sep 23rd 12:00 PM
3-Day Event Pot Limit Omaha (Event 3)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
£5,000 + £250

Fri, Sep 25th 10:00 AM
1-Day Event Caesars Cup – Europe vs. USA (No-Limit Hold’em Special Event)
No Rebuy/Add-ons One-day invite-only event,

Sat, Sep 26th 12:00 PM
6-Day Event WSOP Europe Main Event No-Limit Texas Hold’em (Event 4)
No Rebuy/Add-ons
£10,000 + £350

We’ll have all the big news and results from the WSOPE here at 32Red Poker News.
English Poker Open attracts big names to Nottingham

With the WSOPE about to get underway, savvy Dusk Till Dawn poker club bosses have laid on another big event to pull in the visiting high stakes players.  The English Poker Open has been in full swing for a couple of days now and Roberto Romanello leads a star-studded field.

58 players are returning to battle it out for the £208,367 first place prize.  DTD guaranteed a $1 million prize pool for the tournament and, perhaps with the help of the WSOPE, they have managed to reach that guarantee.

The current top 10 players and their chip counts are as follows:

Roberto Romanello – 116500
Eric Liu – 112100
Micheal Tureniec – 88400
John Eames – 81200
David Dean – 66500
Robert Price – 66200
Sean Roberts – 64300
David La Ronde – 57900
Thor Drexel – 56900
Luke Abolins – 52300
Pramesh Bansi – 51200
ASA Bans Annette Ad’

Annette Obrestad, AKA Annette_15, has had a poker advertisement banned by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority.  The ASA argued that the TV ad’ could entice children to gamble and play poker due to Annette’s online poker moniker containing the number 15.

Annette actually turns 21 this week but the strict UK guidelines on advertising states that nobody in the ads should be under the age of 25.

Obrestad is due to captain the European team in the Caesar’s Cup tournament at the WSOPE later this month.