{"id":16,"date":"2006-07-28T17:11:14","date_gmt":"2006-07-28T22:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/28\/2006-world-series-of-poker-main-event-starts-today\/"},"modified":"2008-06-12T00:54:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-12T05:54:49","slug":"2006-world-series-of-poker-main-event-starts-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2006-world-series-of-poker-main-event-starts-today-16\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 World Series of Poker Main Event Starts Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the\u00c2\u00a0start of the 37th annual world series of poker.\u00c2\u00a0 It is reported that there are over 8000 entrants to pony up the 10K entry fee.\u00c2\u00a0 Another record breaking year in terms of prize pool and entries.\u00c2\u00a0 It truly is amazing just how big has become.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>They will have 4 starting days, with 2000 players getting to play each day, and play will not stop until they are down to 800 each day.\u00c2\u00a0 Could be a long day for most.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks to the online poker boom it makes it nearly\u00c2\u00a0impossible for a big name player to win the Main Event and it looks like the $50,000 HORSE tournament will likely be the way to determine the yearly champion among the pros.\u00c2\u00a0 Chip Resee took home the title this year and it is likely that this tournament will be the most anticapated tournament from here on out.\u00c2\u00a0 More updates on World Series Main Event Play to follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the\u00c2\u00a0start of the 37th annual world series of poker.\u00c2\u00a0 It is reported that there are over 8000 entrants to pony up the 10K entry fee.\u00c2\u00a0 Another record breaking year in terms of prize pool and entries.\u00c2\u00a0 It truly is amazing just how big has become.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-handicapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}