Vote for your 2010 WSOP All-Stars
March 15th, 2010
Former Tournament of Champions winner Mike Matusow will be a WSOP All-Star. (photo courtesy of WSOP)
As we first reported a couple weeks ago, this year’s World Series of Poker festivities will include a 2010 WSOP All-Star game. The event will be an updated replacement for the Tournament of Champions, which ran from 2004-2006, before being cancelled.
That event was an invitational, but the new All-Star game comes with a nice democratic twist. Twenty of the twenty-seven participants in the tournament will be chosen by we, the people. Starting today, until June 15th at midnight, you can cruise on over to the WSOP site to vote for up to 20 players you’d like to see play. The only twist, and it’s a pretty big one, is that only past WSOP bracelet winners qualify.
Rounding out the 27 all-stars will be the past three Tournament of Champions winners – Annie Duke, Mike Matusow and Mike Sexton – as well as the most recent WSOP and WSOPE Main Event victors – Joe Cada and Barry Shulman. Finally, there will be two sponsor’s wild card exemptions, though we’ll have to wait a while to see who gets those.
The All-Star game will have a prize pool of $1 million up for grabs and will be televised on NBC on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010. The actual event will start on Sunday, June 27th, where the 27 players will play until there’s just nine left. The final table will go on Sunday, July 4th.
