WSOPE and UK Open in the Pot

In an amazing and exciting opportunity, PokerListings.com has teamed with PacificPoker.com to announce the World Series of Poker Europe and the UK Open are now on the table. Pokerlisting.com players at PacificPoker.com have the open opportunity to enter a 25 thousand dollar freeroll after earning 50 comp points through the site, prior to August 20th. On August 25th, the winner of the freeroll will receive a 22 thousand dollar prize package for World Series of Poker Europe main event on September 10th, with 3000 dollars set aside for other players who don't earn first place.

Should a PokerListing.com player not achieve the 50 comp point but make more than 30 they are eligible to enter an exclusive 8500 dollar United Kingdom Freeroll, and this will run until September 7th. The winner of this event will receive an opportunity to compete at the 888.com UK Open in October.

The first WSOP Europe is being hailed as a tournament with epic proportions. With an anticipated player line up of the best poker professionals in the world, a main event buy in for 20 thousand dollars, the excitement is mounting as the draw near. The competition will be unparalleled, and is already listing more than 60 knows WSOP bracelet winners. With a line up of that nature, the bracelet for the WSOPE main event will be a coveted accessory for all poker pros.

The UK Open will be nothing to sneeze at either. The expectations of players like the Hendon Mob and other intense and world-renowned players make up the field for the UK Open already. Also expected are some of the intense professional poker players that are in London for the WSOPE, a month earlier. Being that both events start in succession, in the same general area, this creates an inescapable opportunity to compete on a world poker scale. How exciting would the prospect be for players who enter either tournament?