WSOP Circuit Hits Atlantic City Today

The 2008-2009 World Series of Poker Circuit makes its second stop at Caesars Atlantic City beginning today.  The first tournament to kick things off is a $300 no limit hold’em tournament and will wrap things up with a $5,000 championship event on Saturday, March 14.  There are 11 events in all on the schedule.  The championship event features starting chip stacks of 20,000 and blinds will begin at 25-50.  Levels will be 60 minutes long and will increase to 90 minutes once the action reaches the final table.

Single table satellites will be running daily March 4-11 from noon until midnight with a buy in of $80.  There will also be Step 1 $340 mega super satellites that will run daily as well at 4 pm and Step 2 $570 mega super satellites will run daily at 8 pm.  Step 1 winners will get entry into a Step 2 tournament and the player who finishes in second place will receive another entry in a Step 1 event.

Below is the complete tournament schedule:

(Events 1-7 are each two day events; events 8, 10 and 11 are one day events.  All preliminary tournament days begin at noon)

Wednesday, Mar. 4: Event No. 1($300 no-limit hold’em)
Thursday, Mar. 5: Event No. 2 ($500 no-limit hold’em)
Friday, Mar. 6: Event No. 3 ($300 no-limit hold’em)
Saturday, Mar. 7: Event No. 4 ($500 no-limit hold’em)
Sunday, Mar. 8: Event No. 5 ($300 no-limit hold’em)
Monday, Mar. 9: Event No. 6 ($300 no-limit hold’em)
Tuesday, Mar. 10: Event No. 7 ($1,000 no-limit hold’em)
Wednesday, Mar. 11: Event No. 8 ($200 turbo no-limit hold’em)
Friday, Mar. 13: Event No. 10 ($200 turbo no-limit hold’em)
Saturday, Mar. 14: Event No. 11 ($200 ladies no-limit hold’em)
Event No. 9 ($5,000 no-limit hold’em championship)
Thursday, Mar. 12: Day 1 - 11 levels
Friday, Mar. 13: Day 2 - play down to nine players
Saturday, Mar. 14: Final Table