WSOP, Dream Team Poker Announce July Event
The World Series of Poker? and Dream Team Poker have joined in announcing a special addition to the 2009 WSOP schedule. The third-ever Dream Team Poker event will be held July 12-13 at the Rio, with several hundred three-player teams expected to take part in the event.
Dream Team Poker��s first events, in November 2008 and May 2009, proved to be a hit with players seeking a break from the grind of traditional poker events. Each offers a unique scoring system that rewards both the top teams and the top individual players. The team scoring is based on a modified ��last longest�� system involving each team��s three players.
Entry for the event is $500+60 per player, or a total of $1,680 per team. The first 300 teams to enter receive personalized ��team�� poker jerseys for the event; the jerseys were popular items at the recent Caesars Palace (May) Dream Team event. That event drew 148 teams and 444 total players, including many of the poker world��s most famous names.
According to WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack, ��After seeing the terrific response to the recent Dream Team Poker tournaments in Las Vegas, we thought a team-based event would be a fun addition to the end of the WSOP. The Dream Team Poker event is one of the many new elements added in 2009 that will help make this summer a memorable one for all WSOP players and fans.��
More information is available at dreamteampoker.com.
