Poker Forum

In yesterday's ESPN Radio broadcast "The Poker Edge" with Phil Gordon and Andrew Feldman, Gordon revealed that Harrah's has informed the online sites that they will not be accepting third-party registrations for this year's World Series of Poker. Gordon puts it in layman's terms:

"If you go to one of the online sites and win a seat to the WSOP, they will not allow the site to buy you in. You're gonna have to buy yourself in."

While some may point out that sites could simply award such prizes in cash instead of the actual tournament buy-in, Gordon points out a major problem most players would still face:

"All these guys that win the $10,000 or $12,000 satellite? It's a big deal to convince your spouse to let you take that $12,000 and go gamble it again... if you don't have a choice, what can they say?... But it's a completely different thing for you to win a seat on 'Site X' and for them to send you a check, say for $12,000, which is kind of the normal package price, and then you take that check, you cash it, and then you buy your ticket to the WSOP. There are a lot of things that can intervene between the time you get that check and the time you actually go to Las Vegas."

Dont forget that Harrahs contributed to Frists campaign fund.
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/con...3147&cycle=2000