Earlier this year Annie Duke announced that her dream of a player-driven poker league was finally coming to fruition. This league will provide player cards for the top 200 players in the world as determined by their ranking system. The tournaments will be open to the 200 carded players as well as players that win their way in via $1500 pro-ams. The season will end with a $1 000 000 freeroll for the top 27 finishers from the year's events. All events will have a buy-in of $20 000 and will be held at the Palms Casino and Resort.
Jeffery Pollack, the highly regarded former President and Commissioner of the WSOP as well as the group that ran Youbet.com are involved in the project with Duke.
The poker world has a lot of poker leagues running right now and a lot that have tried and failed. I think this league has a chance to make it, given the player - first attitude and having tournament guru Jeffery Pollack involved definitely gives it some instant credibility. Because of the recent issues with on-line gambling in the States, this may force more pros to hit the brick and mortars. We will see how the on-line scene plays out, but it probably won't hurt league attendance.
Here is Federated Sports and Gaming's website;
Here is a well written article that details everything you need to know about this new league;
Here is a link to the schedule for the 2011 - 2012 inaugural season
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