WSOP tournement of Champions

On May 31th & June 1st old WSOP main event winners will battle for the WSOP tournement of Champions title. One to watch: Russ Hamilton will probably join this tournement and not everybody is happy with that. Russ is suspected of haveing a superuser account on UltimateBet and AbsolutePoker.

Doyle Brunson: “Russ Hamilton is caught between a rock and a hard place. Russ is accused of being the mastermind behind the cheating scandal at UB. The evidence looks like Russ is guilty but I’ve learned to wait for the verdict to be handed down. If Russ shows up, he is going to take lots of abuse from angry poker players, and if he doesn’t show, every will say, “See there, he is admitting he is guilty.” My guess is he will be there.”

Last years WSOP main event winner Peter Eastgate thinks he has a lot of changes winning this title: “I should be one of the strongest players as I have emerged from the second biggest field. However, you can’t disregard the champions like Doyle Brunson, Huck Seed and Phil Hellmuth, who have proven to stay on top ever since they won their championships.”