Cash Games May Be Up This Year At World Series Of Poker
May 12th, 2011 | by Mary Tillyard |The World Series of Poker does a lot of good things for Las Vegas casinos. Among the perks of having the WSOP in Sin City, is the thousands of poker players that come in for the summer event. The players not only enter the tournaments at the WSOP, but they try their luck at other tourneys in Las Vegas.
This year, it is expected that it will be the cash games that reign supreme after players have been knocked out of WSOP events. With the recent crackdown on three of the largest online poker sites in the world, US poker players are scrambling.
While the WSOP is about tournaments, online poker is largely driven by cash games. With online players looking for new avenues, many are escaping to Las Vegas, starting next week, and the goal will be to not only play in the WSOP, but also to get in their action in as many cash games as they can find.
I come to Las Vegas every year, so this is nothing new to me, said Paul Herfrondul. The difference I have seen so far this year is that there are more people than usual this early on. I always get here a couple of weeks before the WSOP, and stay for about a month, but there seems to be a bigger buzz this year than in the past.
Part of that may be because online players have been dealing with the loss of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker accounts now for over a month. On the Friday when the indictments were issued for these three sites and their executives, the landscape of online poker instantly changed for the near future.
I was playing almost four times a week online, but I have not played online since that day, said Barry Walters. It kind of was a good thing for me, because I saved all that money and bought my ticket to Vegas. Now well see how I fare at the live tables.
The World Series of Poker begins in less than three weeks. The first two events will commence on May 31st. Ten tournaments are slated to begin in the first week of the WSOP.
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