The tournament was one of the toughest and most exciting of all tournaments to be played at WSOP and attracted an extremely formidable arena from 362 top players from Europe, the United States, and around the world. The tournament lasted six days, with the initial field divided into two start dates and culminating in the final table, which took more than 19 hours to complete. It was hung with a first-place prize of $1.5 million and the much-cherished WSOP – European Main Event bracelet.
ESPN’s World Series Poker – Europe’s coverage begins February 1 at 6 p.m. EST with an encore presentation of episodes 1 and 2 on ESPN2, co-hosted by Ron McKean and Norman Chad at 10 p.m. “The intimate look and feel of this tournament is unlike any other WSOP event we’ve produced in the United States,” said Doug White, ESPN’s senior director of programming and acquisitions.
The cavernous Amazon Room in Rio, Las Vegas, which housed all the tournaments last summer, gave way to a small club where players sat at tables: the next room, down the stairs, behind the bar, near the roulette table, and in front of an ice cream shop. Thanks to a new innovation called the Mobile Hole Card Camera, ESPN will be able to show the hole card of the key hand on many external tables in addition to the feature table for the first time. “We believe that mobile hold card cameras will give fans a good understanding of the overall story of the tournament and how the players made it to the finals,” said Jamie Horowitz, ESPN’s senior sports producer. 메이저 토토사이트