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The seat that will be given away in the Chase the Chair competition is worth $120,000 as it is a direct Semi-Final berth in the Poker Million VII.  By attaining this seat, one player will get the chance to earn the $1,000,000 first place prize.  At worst, whoever earns this seat will get $20,000.

In addition to getting this $120,000 Semi-Final seat, the Chase the Chair winner will also get $5,000 for travel expenses, a 5 night hotel stay at the Hilton Metropole in London, 10 Green Room passes for the Semi-Final tables, and 10 passes to the Poker Million VII Live Final Party.

Players who want to earn their shot at the Chase the Chair title need to get into one of the 120 satellites that are being offered.  Each satellite winner will then get a $1,000 seat into the “Win the Chair” tournament. 

The person who takes first place in the Win the Chair tournament will be the winner of the $120,000 Semi-Final seat and will also the $10,000 in extras that come along with it.  In all, there will be a huge $130,000 prize package on the table.

Well apparently Harah’s and the WSOP were listening as they have decided to hold all of the WSOPE events in one spot.  The spot that they have chosen is the Casino at the [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-EmpirePoker.php]Empire[/url] in London’s world famous Leicester Square. 

Last year the events were held in three separate venues the Casino at the [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-EmpirePoker.php]Empire[/url], Sportsman, Fifty which were all located in London.  However, they were spread out too much across the city which meant that players had to walk or get taxis to different tournaments making it a nuisance.

The WSOP’s marketing director in Ty Stewart weighed in on the change citing that it will help players get to events quicker and easier and it will also help media out too. 

He said, “We have enhanced the schedule to provide more variety and game play, greatly broadened the worldwide television exposure and have brought the event under one roof to better the player experience for this prestigious and premiere event.” 

Besides the venue change, there was also other news for the 2008 WSOPE in that many star players will be in attendance this year.  Some of them include [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Daniel-Negreanu.html]Daniel Negreanu[/url], [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Chris-Ferguson.html]Chris Ferguson[/url], [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Jennifer-Harman.html]Jennifer Harman[/url], and [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Phil-Hellmuth.html]Phil Hellmuth[/url].

Surprisingly a few of the November Nine players will be there too in David “Chino” Rheem, [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Peter-Eastgate.php]Peter Eastgate[/url], and [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Ivan-Demidov.php]Ivan Demidov[/url].  This is interesting since the majority of the players were predicted to not participate so they could get ready for the WSOP Main Event in November.

But SOXxxxxx was able to out-distance himself by quite a wide margin from the third place player, drewster33. SOXxxxxx was almost 300 points ahead of drewster33 and won $900 for getting second.

We’re now into a new battle for the leaderboards as August has kicked off and there are already fresh faces challenging players like wildrick and SOXxxxxx for first place. Two of those players are dayg031 and coope3.

Daygo31 is in third place with 196 points right now while coope3 is tied for first place with 200 points. However, the player who is sitting in first with coope3 is a familiar face, SOXxxxxx, who will once again be looking to capture first place as he did in June and May.

So far, wildrick is nowhere to be found near the top of the leaderboards, but there’s still a lot of the month left before things are settled. Here’s how the rest of the top 10 looks:

1. SOXxxxxx 200
1. coope3 200
3. daygo31 196
4. mcescher 179
5. lamujen1 167
6. MrMatski 160
7. martin1967 159
8. 1mark1 154
9. Shakey10 150
10. sads 131

This film will be called “Pass the Sugar” and is to be directed by the same person who did the movie “Deal” in Gil Cates Jr.  Cates has also directed “Life After Tomorrow” and “A Midsummer Night’s Rave”.

According to news reports, “Pass the Sugar” is supposed to chronicle the 2005 World Series of Poker which was won by Australian (via Lebanon) player Joe Hachem. 

Many people are wondering if a poker movie in the form of a documentary will be a lot more successful than some of the previous attempts including Cates’ “Deal”.  The Cates-directed Deal hasn’t been a total flop but it didn’t receive real good reviews either.

Guest celebrities who are set to be in this documentary include Jose Canseco and Jennifer Tilly.  Also Tony Hachem, who is the brother of Joe Hachem, is going to produce the movie along with Australian company Stack Exchange.

But that lead has dwindled a little since wildrick was ahead by 408 points last week. Now he is ahead by 386 points which is still a pretty comfortable margin with only five days to go.

Cantona2243, who led the leaderboards for a little while earlier in the month, is sitting in third place but will have to hold off GirlWonder who is just 16 points behind. See the action right here.

Here is the top 10 right now:

Rank/Player/Points
1 wildrick 1396
2 SOXxxxxx 1010
3 cantona2243 916
4 GirlWonder 904
5 mitchhh 862
6 Ken0007 834
7 drewster33 831
8 playmaker666 801
9 butch_dk 788
10 snowee 701

It looks like wildrick is definitely cruising towards victory and SOXxxxxx should stay in second but we’ll have to wait and see how everything plays out with places 3-10.

Tonight, the very first event of the World Series of Poker in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Hold’em event will be shown. The final table featured star players like [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Phil-Laak.php]Phil Laak[/url], [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Nenad-Medic.php]Nenad Medic[/url], Kathy Liebert, Mike Sexton, Patrick Antonius, and [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Andy-Bloch.html]Andy Bloch[/url].

The next event to air on ESPN will be the second one in a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em tournament and it can be viewed on July 29th. In fact, for the next 17 weeks ESPN will be showing WSOP events on Tuesdays.

Events #3 and #4 will be shown on August 5th while Event #5 is going to be aired on August 12th. Everyone will certainly want to tune in on the 19th of August as the star-studded H.O.R.S.E. championship that Scotty Nguyen won will be shown.

August 26th will be showing another big event in the World Championship of Pot-Limit Omaha which features a $10,000 buy-in. Make sure to check out ESPN for more information.

But now the roles may be reversed as wildrick has taken a commanding lead in the leaderboards race. He now leads his closest competitor by 408 points and this can be seen here.

SOXxxxxx has not been able to stay in second place either as cantona2243 has remained in this position for most of the month. The margin is 715 points to SOXxxxxx’s third place total of 652 points.

4th through 10th place isn’t separated by much at all as snowee currently has 633 points while Madison_dk is in 10th with 546 points. To get a better perspective on how top 10 are doing, here’s the way things look right now:

Rank/Player/Points
1 wildrick 1123.00
2 cantona2243 715.00
3 SOXxxxxx 652.00
4 snowee 633.00
5 Ken0007 614.00
6 butch_dk 610.00
7 rockingham1 572.00
8 1111poker 551.00
9 mitchhh 548.00
10 Madison_dk 546.00

While wildrick is in first by a far lead, there is still some time for people to make a move on him. It will definitely be tough to overcome 408 points in just 12 days though!

The 22 year-old from Odense, Denmark has managed to become one of the final nine players left in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. Peter made it through the tough 6,844 player field to the final table where major guaranteed money awaits.

In fact, even if Peter busts out before everyone else at the table, he’ll still be guaranteed $900,670. But he’ll have to wait quite a while before finding out where he’ll finish as the WSOP Main Event final table won’t take place until November 9th.

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Ihre commented on Eastgate by saying, “It’s great to see a [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Ladbrokes.php]Ladbrokes[/url] Poker player make it through to the final table. He has done brilliantly, and is definitely a top-class pro in the making. We’re proud to call him a [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Ladbrokes.php]Ladbrokes[/url] regular, he’s qualified through to the televised stages of Poker Million twice (2006 and 2007), so he’s no stranger to high stakes pressure.”

Eastgate will be entering the contest in fourth place with a total of 18,375,000 chips which gives him a strong chance to survive deep into the last leg of the lengthy Main Event.

The question many [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/reviews/Online-Poker-Ladbrokes.php]Ladbrokes[/url] players were wondering though is just how long cantona 2243 would stay in the lead.  The answer would be not long as SOXxxxxx wasted no time in relieving cantona2243 from the lead.

However, a twist would occur when SOXxxxxxx would quickly lose the lead to the champion from April in wildrick.  And ever since Thursday wildrick has been in the lead.   See this here.

Since the point where wildrick has taken over, he has been able to increase his lead over cantona2243.  wildrick is currently leading in the race for the monthly $2,000 prize by 145 points.  cantona2243 is still leading over SOXxxxxx for the second place prize of $1,250 by 104 points.

Here’s the top 10 as it stands now:

Rank/Player/Points
1. wildrick 813.00
2. cantona2243 668.00
3. SOXxxxxx 562.00
4. snowee 506.00 
5. TVHDK 492.00
6. mitchhh 486.00
7. 1111poker 453.00
8. Madison_dk 436.00 
9. drewster33 429.00 
10. mrpipespb 428.00 

But Brian Schaedlich isn’t waiting to make a move in the WSOP Main Event. He’s doing quite well already. The man from Chagrin Falls, Ohio doesn’t have much name recognition going for him, but that hasn’t fazed Schaedlich one bit.

Schaedlich has been the dominant player by far in the early going as he leads all players with 500,000 chips at the end of day 2a. He was second in chips after day 1b, but bolted out to the lead at the end of this day.

What’s interesting about Schaedlich is that he won his way in the Main Event by winning a $135 satellite at the Mountaineer Racetrack Casino in West Chester, WV.

Trailing Schaedlich in second place is Hunter Frey who has 378,000 chips while David Rheem is in second place with 284,000. Those familiar with poker will see a recognizable face with [url=http://www.flopturnriver.com/Robert-Mizrachi.php]Robert Mizrachi[/url] in fourth with 242,000 chips.

Some players that did well only to find themselves out of the tourney on this day were Sveltlana Gromenkova and Perry Friedman. There will certainly be more to join these two as day 2b of the WSOP kicks off today at 12:00 p.m. PT.