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| Players Championship Braclet 2011 |
Event #61 here that means only one thing for poker lovers THE MAIN EVENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I was in the Rio for the first time last year and let me tell you the atmosphere is electrifying. I played a €1000 buy in, let the nerves get the better of me and didn't play my best game and was out in a couple of hours. I didn't enter the main event ; too rich for me, maybe one day though. I went down on day one of the main to event to soak up the atmosphere. What left me with a lasting impression wasn't the thousands of excited faces, nor the big name players mixing effortlessly with the wannabes. It was the sound of poker chips rattling from hand to hand like the march of a million crickets. I was also lucky enough to find myself close to the action for the Poker Players Championship. Brian Rast defeated Phil Hellmuth to deny him his ,then historic 12th bracelet..
Today thousands of players are gathering in one place and the predominant sound is that of millions of poker chips clashing and dancing with each other on the green baize. The sound becomes hypnotic as players seem to sync with each other to produce 'The Poker Lullaby'. It's mesmerising, comforting and above all when you hear it at that level you know you're somewhere very special.
The main event is the biggest poker tournament on the planet. Thousands will sit down dreaming that it could be their bracelet, their picture that unfolds and is hung in the historic winners gallery alongside Scotty Nguyen, Phil Hellmuth, Jr. Peter Estgate, Joe Hasmen, Doyle Brunson.Stu Ungar, Johnny Chan, Joe Hachem and Jonathan Duhamel.
Will an Irish player make the final table again this year and maybe go better than the heroic effort of Eoghan O’Dea. Could one of the older generation come through, Padraig Parkinson or will one of the young guns like Jason Tompkins fulfill his obvious promise. Watch it here from 1pm on Sunday 8th July GMT Main Event on Veetle
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