The World Series of rakeback poker may attract the very best poker players in the world but in rooms and fields so large you rarely see more than one or two stars on the same table but in the $10k Pot Limit Hold’em event that started on June 20th the stars were glinting like the Milky Way.
There was one table in particular that caught the attention of many on the rail: Amnon Filippi, Kevin Saul, Juston Bonomo, Vitaly Lunkin, Christian Harder and David Benefield were joined later by Joe Hachem. A table of this kind would normally be reserved for a sponsor’s televised game but not so in the rarefied atmosphere of the Amazon room. These poker superstars were all duelling it out on Day 1 at the Rio with the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan – ever so briefly – and Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth and more names than I can list.
With the high buy in and the mathematical nature of Pot limit offering little encouragement to amateurs out there the field at the start of Day 1 was about as tough as you will ever find. There was very little dead money and you would be struggling to find an easy table to play on. For those amateurs that did play it must have been an unbelievable experience to watch and learn these poker gladiators.
I’ve been watching from a far hoping that if I can keep my game tight and keep earning well then maybe next year I will be there playing. My rakeback provider www.pokerrakeback.com are giving me nice payments at the moment and have some great freerolls and rake races for the English Poker Open which is on just before the WSOP Europe. If I can keep my online poker going well then maybe I might take a vacation over there and see what I can do.
For those that are looking for a rake back deal I can’t recommend www.pokerrakeback.com enough as they pay promptly have great customer service and really good promotions.
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