WSOP Circuit hits Atlantic City for eleven days of action

WSOP Circuit by admin on March 11, 2011

Caesars Atlantic City

The very energetic World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit hits Atlantic City fresh off the back of the last event in Florida.

The Caesars Atlantic City casino plays host to the WSOP Circuit from 2nd March 2 to 13th. The tournament will include nine Hold’em ring events and Limit Omaha event. A number of satellite and second chance tournaments and seniors and ladies events will be on offer. Buy-ins for ring events start as low as $350. The Main Event will start on 11th March with a $1,650 buy-in for three days of No Limit Hold’em.

Last year’s Main Event at the Caesers in Atlantic City had a larger buy-in of $5,150 and attracted 174 players to create a prize pool of $817,015. Roland Isra from New York took home the top prize worth $264,715 and the prized gold ring.

The WSOP Circuit moves to Atlantic City straight from the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida where the first time the new circuit hit the state, the opening ring game worked its way into history as the largest single-venue poker tournament ever held in Florida.with a mighty whopping 877 participants. The winner of the stop’s Main event was 19-year-old professional, John Riordan, who took home $210,180 for first place. Riordan was also presented with a WSOP Circuit gold ring, the coveted prize awarded to all winners in poker’s biggest and most prestigious national tournament series. The WSOP Circuit stop also crowned Florida’s first major poker tournament female champion – June Amer won a WSOP Circuit gold ring and $65,338 in the $550 No-Limit Hold’em competition.

The next WSOPC series is the Regional Championship at Harrah’s Rincon Casino & Resort from March 10-30; that’s in San Diego. Good luck!