Whether you are pro poker play or just a fan of the WSOP, you’re happy to know that next Sunday, June 25th is the opening of the 6 week “Summer Poker Classic”. With 45 events from June 26th thru August 10th 2006, the biggest “Pro/Am” tournamant in world history will reign supreme in Las Vegas and at the Rio in Particular.The action begins with satellite games on the 25th and commences with tournament #1 a No-Limit event for Casino Employees and ends with the final table of the Premiere, $10,000 World Championship Event. This year, the WSOP is preparing for upto 8,000 players in this event. All told, Harrahs, the owner of the event, the Rio hotel and much more, should award more than the $103 Million in prize money that the 2005 event paid out.

I will be playing in a couple of the early limit tournaments and will be “reporting”, if you want to call it that, from the seen in late june and early july. As always, I’ll be trying to share my perspective on the tournament and the emotion of myself and the entire tournament. This is not my first tournament, so some of the early jitters and unanswered questions were dealt with last time. This time, i hope to give a better sense of the scene, what is happening, why it’s happening and how it ended up happening this way.