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WSOP.com Sending Online Qualifiers to WSOPE
Posted by: Jo Martin - Mon, 2013-10-21 04:29
Despite the paltry traffic numbers posted by the site in its first few weeks of existence, the backing behind WSOP.com is strong, and the operation forges ahead taking on various challenges which are part of the daily norm for well-established, big, international operations. Although at a site like
PokerStars, online qualifiers are being sent to various live events all over the world in droves, and thus one particular player making his way to a
WSOP event somewhere through PokerStars isn’t exactly news, the same feat is something to cheer about at WSOP.com, where it’s a sign of normalcy, one of things settling into the regular grind, as well as a sign of viability.
One of the first players to have earned a WSOPE seat worth €10,450 at one of America’s first real money
online poker sites was an Aria table games dealer, Nick Rosen.
Rosen, who is apparently as “normal” a person as they get, played in one of the $5 Super Satellites at the site to first win a seat in the $215 Mega Satellite, which he eventually ended up winning. Rosen said he used to play poker online every now and then back when it was still available for US players, and thus he took the opportunity to jump right back into the game as soon as WSOP.com was launched.
The first Sunday, he was already in and he won the first ever weekend major of the site.
At first, Rosen thought about just settling for the money, but then he says he decided to take what he considered a once in a lifetime opportunity and he ended up in France, playing in one of the biggest events of the 2013 WSOP-E.
Rosen doesn’t have any particular expectations for his first ever live poker outing. Considering it a freeroll, he says he already feels blessed.
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