Casinos rule WSOP and WPT scheduling

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Two World Poker Tour tournaments sandwiched the World Series of Poker this summer, allowing professionals to arrange their Las Vegas playing schedules around several events with championship-caliber buy-ins. The two major poker brands compete for players and a rivalry exists, but both WSOP and WPT officials say scheduling has more to do with the properties that host their tournaments than the brands that bring in the customers.

WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb says his company did not specifically schedule their Mandalay Bay Poker Championship (May 22-June 2) and the Bellagio Cup III Championship (Begins today) to serve as bookends for the WSOP. "(WSOP Commissioner) Jeffrey Pollack and I are friends and we're both mindful of each other's schedule," Lipscomb said. "Sure there's a rivalry and sometimes we compete for players, but I believe we are both made stronger by the other's existence."

Lipscomb said his schedulers did their best to avoid taping major tournaments while the WSOP was running. But the Bellagio, looking to take advantage of the influx of players in Las Vegas during the Series, asked the WPT to tape their growing Bellagio Cup III Championship Event and WPT officials agreed. The Bellagio Cup Championship Event begins today, one day after the WSOP completed the first four days of the Main Event. Dozens of professionals, who busted from the Main Event, are looking to quench their championship thirst by playing for millions at the Bellagio.

The Bellagio event has two Day Ones, meaning even more professionals might make their way to the WPT tournament after they bust from WSOP Main Event Day 2A. Justin Bonomo, Steve Paul-Ambrose, Barry Shulman, Blair Rodman, Dan Shak, Roland De Wolfe, Scott Fischman, Kristy Gazes, Joe Pelton, David Ulliot, Michael Mizrachi and Antonio Esfandiari are some of the better-known pros playing at the Bellagio.

"The Bellagio events always draw the top players," Lipscomb said. "It has more to do with that then where the tournament falls on the schedule." Both brands see the players as their primary customer, meaning neither wants its events to conflict with other major tournaments.

"Our only plan is to schedule ultra-prestige poker tournaments," Pollack said. "We don't really worry about what anyone else is doing. Lipscomb said the WSOP is more likely to schedule one of their circuit events around a WPT event to take advantage of having professionals in the area.

Pollack disagreed, saying the circuit-event schedule depends wholly on when various Harrah's properties schedule tournament series. "We try and make it so the players don't have to choose," Lipscomb said. We had a snafu with the NBC Heads-up Championship (WPT hosting L.A. Poker Classic), where players had to choose between that great event and ours. They weren't happy about it."

Lipscomb believes these scheduling conflicts will continue. "Our schedule is packed," Lipscomb said. "It's becoming harder to avoid conflicts."

Über World Series of Poker (WSOP):

Die World Series of Poker, oder kurz WSOP, ist eine Reihe von Pokerturnieren, die jedes Jahr in Las Vegas ausgetragen werden.

Die World Series of Poker finden jährlich im Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas statt.

Die World Series of Poker ist die grösste und prestigeträchtigste Pokerveranstaltung der Welt. Mit einer umfassenden Liste von Turnieren in allen wichtigen Pokervarianten ist die WSOP das am längsten laufende Pokerturnier der Welt und geht auf das Jahr 1970 zurück.

Darüber hinaus hat die WSOP bahnbrechende Allianzen in den Bereichen Rundfunk, digitale Medien und Unternehmenssponsoring gebildet und die Marke mit der Einführung der WSOP Europe im Jahr 2007 und der WSOP Asia-Pacific im Jahr 2013 sowie der WSOP International Circuit Series im Jahr 2015 erfolgreich international ausgebaut.

Ursprünglich wurden die Tourniere in Las Vegas Downtown im Binion's Horseshoe Casino ausgetragen. Im Jahre 2005 kaufte Caesars den Brand WSOP. Seit diesem Datum werden die Pokermeisterschaften im Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino durchgeführt.

Gewinner der letzten Jahre des WSOP-Championship-Mainevent

2020: Damian Salas 2019: Hossein Ensan 2018: John Cynn 2017: Scott Blumstein 2016: Qui Nguyen 2015: Joe McKeehen 2014: Martin Jacobson 2013: Ryan Riess 2012: Greg Merson 2011: Pius Heinz 2010: Jonathan Duhamel 2009: Joe Cada 2008: Peter Eastgate 2007: Jerry Yang 2006: Jamie Gold 2005: Joe Hachem 2004: Greg "Fossil Man" Raymer 2003: Chris Moneymaker 2002: Robert Varkonyi 2001: Carlos Mortensen 2000: Chris "Jesus" Ferguson 1999: J.J. "Noel" Furlong 1998: Scotty Nguyen 1997: Stu Ungar 1996: Huck Seed 1995: Dan Harrington 1994: Russ Hamilton 1993: Jim Bechtel 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi 1991: Brad Daugherty 1990: Mansour Matloubi 1989: Phil Hellmuth Jr. 1988: Johnny Chan 1987: Johnny Chan 1986: Berry Johnston 1985: Bill Smith 1984: Jack Keller 1983: Tom McEvoy 1982: Jack Strauss 1981: Stu Ungar 1980: Stu Ungar 1979: Hal Fowler 1978: Bobby Baldwin 1977: Doyle Brunson 1976: Doyle Brunson 1975: Sailor Roberts 1974: Johnny Moss 1973: Puggy Pearson 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston 1971: Johnny Moss 1970: Johnny Moss

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