New All Star Game for WSOP
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) just announced that it is adding a new All Star game to its line up of events this year which begins on 27th June. The Tournament of Champions event has been ditched (or perhaps just transformed?). This was the event that featured 20 past WSOP Main Event winners all competing in a televised tournament for a vintage car. The winner of this new event (officially named the $1m WSOP Tournament of Champions Freeroll) will now walk home with a cool half a million dollars in this pocket. The new All Star Game will include 27 players and also be broadcast of course. At least five entries to the event are guaranteed and awarded to the three previous WSOP Tournament of Champions winners and the current WSOP and WSOP Europe Main Event champions. Apparently the remaining 20 seats will be allocated to players according to a fan vote and voting has already opened. Contenders are any player who is a WSOP bracelet holder.So unfortunately this policy rules out some very popular poker players as they may not necessarily have won a WSOP bracelet in the past.