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The 3D online poker room PKR.com have just announced in a press release that they have made a deal with Bluff Media which entitles them to broadcast a live stream of the 2009 WSOP on their website. This deal was made with Bluff Media who has an exclusive deal with Harrah’s Entertainment.

At the same time a new 3D online casino has opened up their doors to the public after getting through their beta testing stage. At the Buzzluck Casino it is not only about gambling, it is also about entertaining the players.

For those of you who are planning to play in this year’s Word Series of Poker we can tell you that the starting stacks in the 2009 WSOP are going to be $30.000 instead of $20.000 like last year and $10.000 as it has been the years before that.

The people responsible for WSOP have listened to the professional poker players when they have told them that they want a slower structure. The buy in for the Main Event will still be $10.000 like every other year but the starting stack is now $30.000 and at the same time the levels will be 120 minutes. This change is made so that the players will be able to play with deeper stacks towards the end instead of a lot of players at the final table being short stacked.

Jack Effel, who is the Tournament Director of the WSOP had the following to say about the recent rule changes: “We have tripled the amount of starting chips in every WSOP event that will be held in 2009. Now some of you might say; ‘then you have probably removed some levels instead’, but it’s actually the other way around, we have added more levels instead. The world economy is not looking good right now and we would like to make sure that the poker players who come here will get as much value out of the tournaments as possible.”

This means that it’s not only in the Main Event that you will get a larger starting stack, this goes for all the other events as well which is really a great move by the people in charge of WSOP. This will result in a higher quality of the game and it will give even more status to the winner as there will be more skilled involved when the stacks are deeper.

Everyone in the poker world has been waiting for this moment. Harrah’s have just released the schedule for the 2009 World Series of Poker. Starting from the 27th of May there will be a total of 57 events played which means that 57 poker players will receive a nice diamond bracelet.

A new tournament for this year is the $40 000 No Limit Texas Hold em Championship that has been added to the tournament schedule to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the World Series of Poker being played this year. This event will start on the 28th of May and it will last for a full 4 days.

Another new thing for this year is that there will be a total of 10 events with a $10 000 buy in this year compared to the 8 events they had last year. The two events that has been added are 2-7 Draw Lowball and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo.

WSOP Main Event will start at the 3rd of July and as always the buy in for this event will be $10 000. The tournament will be played untill the 15th of June and when only 9 player remain the final table will go on a break and resume in November just like last year. These 9 players will then return to the table in November and fight for the championship title.

Before the Main Event there will be another huge tournament in the WSOP which is the $50 000 H.O.R.S.E tournament where the best allround player will be crowned. Defending champion in this event is Scotty Nguen.

If you are looking for a livestream for the 2008 broadcast of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) I have just found out that you can follow all the action live at the BWin WSOP website.

Simply click this link and you will be taken to the site where you will be able to follow the 2008 WSOP in real time through this live stream.

On a side note we can tell you that both the players that are left in this tournament are sponsored by Team PokerStars. Actually the top 4 finishers were all a part of Team PokerStars.