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      <title>2012 World Series of Poker Europe Heading Back to Cannes</title>
      <description>With this summer&#039;s 2012 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas fast approaching, the WSOP recently announced the schedule for this year&#039;s WSOP Europe series of events to take place in late September and early October.  After a successful seven-event series last fall, the WSOPE will return to Cannes, France to the Casino Barrière de Cannes Croisette for another seven-event series.

This will mark the sixth year of the WSOPE which debuted in 2007 at the Casino at the Empire in London with a schedule of three bracelet events.  Annette Obrestad won the inaugural WSOPE Main Event that year, besting a field of 362 in the £10,000 buy-in no-limit hold&#039;em tournament a day before her 19th birthday.

After seeing three years of growth in London, the WSOPE made the move to Cannes last October where record-breaking numbers came out for poker south-of-France-style.  The seven bracelet events drew nearly 2,600 entrees, with Elio Fox outlasting a record-setting Main Event field of 593 to claim the bracelet and €1.4 million first prize.

When announcing this year&#039;s WSOPE schedule, Ty Stewart, Executive Director of the WSOP and Vice President of Caesars Interactive Entertainment, noted how events had been moved a few weeks earlier this time around &quot;to take advantage of the great weather and all Cannes has to offer,&quot; adding that some are already speculating that this year&#039;s Main Event (a €10,000 + €450 event) might actually draw more than 1,000 players.

The 2012 WSOPE will follow the same schedule as last year, featuring the same seven events with nearly the same buy-ins.  Here are the seven events with starting dates:

September 21, 2012  
Event No. 1 (3-day), €2,500 + €200 No-Limit Hold&#039;em (6-max.)

September 22, 2012  
Event No. 2 (5-day), €1,000 + €100 No-Limit Hold&#039;em 

September 24, 2012  
Event No. 3 (3-day), €5,000 + €300 Pot-Limit Omaha 

 September 25, 2012  
Event No. 4 (3-day), €3,000 + €250 No-Limit Hold&#039;em Shootout 

 September 26, 2012  
Event No. 5 (4-day), €10,000 + €450 No-Limit Hold&#039;em Split Format  

September 27, 2012  
Event No. 6 (3-day), €1,500 + €150 Pot-Limit Omaha (6-max.) 

September 29, 2012  
Event No. 7 (5-day), €10,000 + €450 No-Limit Hold&#039;em Main Event

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