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In order to participate in the largest poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker (WSOP), one needs to have the means to spend a large sum of money or else to win one's place on one of the numerous online poker sites. To sit at a qualifying table of the WSOP in Las Vegas, players must pay admission to the tournament (registration fees of $10,000), not forgetting the cost of the trip and accommodation. Certain players save all year to pay the entry fee for such an event or have the package paid for by their sponsors. This is the case of professional players who don't spend a cent but in return wear the cap or tee-shirt belonging to a poker room (without mentioning golden financial contracts which link them to a virtual poker room, editor's note).

However there are players who win places to participate in the WSOP thanks to poker sites on the internet, which offer places to the best players. So players sign up for satellite tournaments and play against players from the whole world. Those who win the satellite tournaments receive a ticket to go up against the best players in the world and all for free. This is what happened to Gabriel Gouttiere, an online poker player who has made poker his profession and who plays for hours on end usually in the evening once his child has gone to sleep.The first time he participates, Gabriel's objective is to get through the first day but things aren't that simple when one knows that professional players like Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Phil Ivey, Patrick Bruel and many other talented players come to Las Vegas with a single aim: to leave with the much coveted bracelet.

The WSOP has proven several times that it's not only professional players who win the Main Event bracelet. In fact, Chris Moneymaker, an accountant, won the WSOP in 2003 and he walked away with the sum of 2.5 million euros. This year the winner of the WSOP will leave with 12 million dollars and no less than 7,000 poker fans should meet at this exceptional event. The WSOP is a show in itself given the diversity of the players. In fact all types of players go to Las Vegas to participate in the WSOP: young, old, women, men not forgetting the get up of the players, MP3 player in the ears, cap stuck on the head, sun glasses and other gadgets which will hide poker tells ( signs which could betray the players' game, editor's note). Texas Hold'em poker aces only manage to read their adversaries' cards by deciphering their tics or habits. This psychological work requires years of preparation and remaining seated for hours on end demands exceptionally good physical condition. During the WSOP Las Vegas lives for poker and the world has its eyes fixed on this prestigious meeting which has a large media coverage: the press, television, reports etc.

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