Last year, the World Series of Poker introduced the National Championship event, and due to its success, the event will be included in this year’s WSOP. The second annual National Championship qualifiers have been announced this week and include Tom “durrrr” Dwan, among other big name poker pros.
The event will take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on July 6th. The top 100 players from the 2011-2012 WSOP Circuit will be invited to play in the event with no buy-in necessary and a guaranteed $1 million prize pool. In addition, the top 100 performers from the past two years in all WSOP sanctioned events will be eligible to buy-in for $10K, which will go straight to the prize pool to add to the already $1-million-deep pool.
The complete list of qualifiers is below and contains 17 Main Event winners, 17 casino champions, and 66 others including big names like Jason Mercier, Jonathan Duhamel, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Michael Mizrachi, Ben Lamb, and Phil Hellmuth.
The event will be televised by ESPN.
The complete list of qualifiers:
Michael Mizrachi
Ben Lamb
Shawn Buchanan
Phil Hellmuth
John Juanda
Chris Moorman
Jonathan Duhamel
John Racener
David (Bakes) Baker
Frank Kassela
Richard Ashby
Steve Billirakis
Jason Somerville
Brian Rast
Daniel Idema
Eugene Katchalov
Bertrand Grospellier
Jeffrey Papola
Tristan Wade
Pius Heinz
Jason Mercier
Matthew Matros
Daniel Kelly
Sam Trickett
Michael Chow
Allen Kessler
Valdemar Kwaysser
Vladimir Shchemelev
Joseph Cheong
Men Nguyen
David (DB) Baker
Joe Ebanks
David Chiu
Owais Ahmed
Mikhail Lakhitov
Tomer Berda
Sam Stein
Mitch Schock
Eric Buchman
Miguel Proulx
Martin Staszko
Jake Cody
Christian Harder
David Peters
Daniel Alaei
Matt Jarvis
Tom Dwan
Sean Getzwiller
James Dempsey
Ian Gordon
George Lind
Will Failla
Gavin Smith
Amir Lehavot
Nick Schulman
Joshua Tieman
Alexander Kostritsyn
Mark Radoja
Allen Bari
Matt Glantz
Jarred Solomon
Maxwell Troy
David Bach
Elio Fox
Mark Schmid
Ayaz Mahmood
Nick Binger
Matt Keikoan
David Sands
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Arkadiy Tsinis
Jason Dewitt
Fabrice Soulier
Robert Mizrachi
Matt Marafioti
Steve Landfish
Maxim Lykov
Chris Bjorin
Jon Turner
Sammy Farha
John Dolan
Pascal LeFrancois
Viacheslav Zhukov
Victor Ramdin
Joshua Brikis
Nicolas Fierro
Gabriel Nassif
Scott Montgomery
Kirill Rabtsov
Jesse Rockowitz
Peter Gelencser
David Diaz
Tyler Bonkowski
Eric Cloutier
Michael Michnik
Owen Crowe
Vitaly Lunkin
Steve Sung
Eric Rodawig
Sami Kelopuro
