Limit Hold'em Shootout Starts at Noon

The lengthy preliminary event phase of the 2008 World Series of Poker sends off its final start at noon today -- it's Event 53, the two-day $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout. The event will be capped at 720 players (nine per table), and will consist of three "shootout" rounds, wherein each table within each round is in itself a single-table tournament, with the single winner at each table moving on to the next round.

The first two of three rounds will be held today, with the possibility of second-round action stretching well into the night. Last year, this event was won by Ram Vaswani, who emerged from a capped 720-player field to win $217,438.

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