Broadcast giant ESPN has released a preliminary schedule containing 40-hours of live action from the World Series of Poker Main Event and Big One for One Drop, and online grinders get the opportunity to win a Circuit ring.

Experience is everything.

So many poker players told me the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event would be ‘different’ to any other tournament I had ever experienced, there was a bundle of letters preventing me from opening my door of belief on this one.

And then I got there.