The schedule for the second annual World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair.com has been announced. The tournament will take place in LCI’s prestigious venues in London from September 19th to October 2nd. The 2007 event featured 623 entrants competing for £1,305,215 over 3 tournaments. The main event saw Norway’s Annette Obrestad win the largest amount ever for a female, £1 million, beating Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth and Johnny Chan.

The tournament comprises of four bracelet events. The tournament kicks off with the new £1,500 no-limit tournament lasting 3 days on September 19th. This is then followed on September 22nd by the £2,500 3 day H.O.R.S.E. event, with the 3 day £5,000 Pot Limit Omaha event starting on September 24th, and ending with the £10,000 World Championship No-Limit Hold’em event starting on September 27th and running for 5 days. If that isn’t enough there will also be five non-bracelet events as well as satellites and non-stop cash games at London Clubs International casinos, The Rendezvous, The Casino at the Empire (in the famous Leicester Square), The Sportsman, Fifty, and the Golden nugget.

If you want to qualify for WSOPE then Betfair Poker, home of the 30% betfair rakeback, is the only online place to qualify! This year Betfair Poker is setting aside $1.5 MILLION to send a team to WSOP Europe in September 2008. As the official sponsors of the WSOP Europe, Betfair is the only site to be able to guarantee your $24,000 WSOPE seat, not to mention the other perks that you will receive as a special guest of the joint hosts.

How to make sure you are part of the excitement?! There will be Daily Freerolls for the WSOPE, Monday to Friday at 12.30, 20.35, 00.30 BST with the Saturday Freeroll Final featuring 10 Minute rapid levels, 2,000 chips. The top nine in the daily freeroll get a seat in the Saturday freeroll final starting at 18.30 BST. In the Saturday Freeroll Final 1st place gets a $550 seat in the Sunday WSOPE final, 2nd and 3rd place get $55 WSOP Europe / Vegas Level 2 seats and places 4th ’til 9th get $5.50 WSOP Europe / Vegas Level 1 seats. Every Saturday at 19:00 BST there will be a tournament open to all new Betfair Poker customers (including those with a Betfair account who haven’t yet tried their hand at poker). The structure is 15 minute levels with 2,000 starting chips. First prize wins a $525 seat to the next WSOPE Grand Final qualifier with the next 29 players share an additional $500 Prize Pool. So there is a way in for everyone, both small and large players! During WSOP in Las Vegas players can pre-register at the tournament cage and lock in poker player hotel rates via www.worldseriesofpoker.com

ESPN is currently set to televise 8 hours of poker in the US and will distribute it globally. ESPN360, the broadband sports network portal is to provide live coverage to the US, Europe, Mexico and Brazil with Harrah’s Entertainment to distribute to non-ESPN markets. It is rumoured that organizers Harrah’s Entertainment have struck a deal granting David Beckham a wild-card entrance into the £10,000 event. Beckham is one of the most recognizable figures in world sport and it is believed that his presence in the tournament will see viewing figures soar, where he has a cult following all over the world, especially in South-East Asia. David Yu CEO Betfair.com ‘We are extremely excited to be working alongside Harrah’s and the World Series of Poker brand for a second year. Betfair Poker is now the only place players can qualify online for the tournament - this exclusivity shows how confident we are that WSOPE 2008 will be even bigger and better than before.’

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