After circulating the poker industry rumor mill for the past month, the official announcement that a World Series of Poker Circuit stop will be heading to Vancouver’s River Rock Casino and Resort has been made.
According to a breaking news story on PokerListings.com, the press release was made by “Jason March, player services manager for PlayNow.com” at the 2012 WSOP Main Event, saying; “We are so excited, this is going to be a fantastic event. We finalized the deal with the WSOP today.”
As a result, the report also goes on to say that the annual British Columbia Poker Championships “will be pushed back to spring to accommodate the WSOPC stop.”
Latest UPDATES:
- EspaceJeux.com players will officially be able to participate in both the networks satellites and the two online events.
- ONLY PlayNow and EspaceJeux players will be able to play in the Ring events and they will count towards points for the WSOP-C.
- Players who win the online events will receive an official WSOP- C ring.
- Network Satellites (Sundays) – $2,000 Winner’s Choice – $3,000 Main Event Package
- Playnow.com Only Satellites (Monday-Thursday) – Variety of winner’s choice for the $365 and $580 (buy-in still TBD).
- Offline Satellites will run from Sept 17th to October 14th. This includes all sub satellites and main event satellites.
- Online Event satellites will run from October 15th to November 25th (depending on which online event). This includes all sub satellites and main event satellites.
- Satellites coming to PlayNow.com in mid September.
Online Ring Events on PlayNow.com :
| Sunday, November 18 | $300 + $20 | 1 |
| Sunday, November 25 | $500 + $30 | 1 |
Check PlayNow.com for more details.
Are you guys going to be there for the coverage? I remember following your live updates and video during the 2010 BCPC
WSOP Circuit at Riverrock…… event schedule now posted on Riverrock’s website!!!
Can we play in the 2 satelite on Espacejeux?
Is canadapoker coming to the Riverrock for the WSOP
Not confirmed yet Samantha, we will keep you posted.
@Jean-Francois-the 2 online events listed are the ring events. So far they have confirmed Espacjeux players will be able to play online sats to the live events
It has been confirmed LQ players will also be able to play the online ring events
That Playnow.com website, i cant register thru them is there somewhere else i can register and try to sattlelite ?!
Is that the final schedule?
Im from alberta and i cant register or play at neither of these sites to play SATs ! So weak !
I can’t register at either of these sites anyone know where else I can sattlite into this event outside of BC and Quebec ?
You need to reside in BC(Playnow) or Quebec(EspaceJeux) in order to Play.
I have my main event wsopc river rock ticket. I can’t wait for Nov 2nd. Whoever brought this to Vancouver is my hero.