WSOP Poker News: WSOP Circuit has been a slow death for years, the decline in participation due to lack of television coverage and competition with other newer poker tournaments and the different poker news. Now, the management of the World Series of Poker has responded to the modernization of the circuit with a series of modifications to make it more attractive to players of all levels and bankroll.
The 12-stop schedule for the season 2010-11 WSOP Circuit will see the standard buy-ins, textures and disbursements at each stop on the circuit. This includes a $ 1,500 buy-in main event at every stop of the circuit, down $ 5.000 for the level of recent years, and $ 10,000 in the year of the circuit is open. But four stops on the schedule – Horseshoe Hammond outside Chicago, Harrah’s Atlantic City, Harrah Rincon outside San Diego, and Harrah’s New Orleans – will sport a $ 10,000 buy-in regional championships will each receive two hours of coverage on ESPN.
Players in each event WSOP Circuit gold ring will receive points toward a new cumulative points system similar to the WSOP player of the year the points system. The first 36 players in the standings at the end of the season of the circuit will receive an invitation to play in a WSOP Circuit Championship $ 1,000,000 National at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Other players who will receive invitations to play in the case includes any player who accumulates the most points on each circuit during the off season, each circuit stop Main Event champion, and every player who makes the final table in one of four Regional Championships $ 10,000. The tournament winner will receive a National Championship World Series of Poker gold bracelet.
“We found the WSOP Circuit events needed breathe of fresh air, and we believe we have responded to steroids,” said Ty Stewart, director of the WSOP. “The new model is just the WSOP is all about; to give poker players of all bankrolls the opportunity to compete for fame, fortune and respect that comes only WSOP bracelet and a nationwide TV audience.”
World Series Poker Circuit season starts Aug. 19 at the Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa, a stop sign, which had previously suffered from state laws to prevent the use of conference centers, poker tournaments, and being planned for the dead Iowa harsh winter.

