Cell phones must be turned off as the event starts yet WSOP made a new regulation that players not involved in cards in muck are allowed to send messages and twitter at the table as long as they do not send these messages to any other player at the table.

Players are also allowed to use their cell phones to talk provided they must be at least one table length away from their seats while gabbing. WSOP logo last 2009 still remains as stated in the WSOP logo policy in 2010 and no other logo that promotes drugs, handguns, lotteries, obscene materials, pornography, libel or advertise any online gaming site that conducts business with U.S. residents is allowed.

The 2010 WSOP includes the annual $500 buy-in Casino Employees no Limit Hold’em on May 28th and the brand new $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship. This new game is an eight-game mix of limit Hold’em, Omaha High-Low Split Eight or Better, Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud High-Low Split Eight or Better, No Limit Hold’em, Pot Limit Omaha and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball. This game is an exchange of the $50,000 HORSE Championships.

1.Jamie Gold – $12,067,292

He captured the largest earnings in WSOP history by winning the 2006 Main Events. The pot of $12 million for the first prize on that tournament has been the hugest pay in WSOP and it made Jamie Gold the number one money maker on this list. He also manages to take home 3 other cashes in the WSOP amounting to $67,000 respectively.

It is improbable that the number of participants will reach the 2006 mark in the WSOP (unless the UIGEA is repelled and poker sites from Europe can reach the US market once again), so it only means that Gold will somehow hang on to the first place for the following years. That would be the situation unless someone ended up having his even bigger finish in the Main Event.

2.Peter Eastgate – $9,152,416

During the WSOP Main Event 2008, a young poker pro named Peter Eastgate won the second biggest pot in poker history and he comes ahead on everyone except of course, Jamie Gold. And would you also believe that it’s his only cashed in during the WSOP? Well, yes and it’s really worth all his efforts.

Being young made Eastgate the prime candidate to capture the number one spot in this list in the subsequent years and so.

3.Jerry Yang – $8,250,000

Another one cash in player made it in the Top 10 Moneymaker list and that would be Jerry Yang – the 2007 WSOP Main Event winner.

His impossible victory during the 2007 Main Event is expected to be Jerry Yang’s only huge hit in poker. Lots of players have admitted that Yang lacks the skill to generate more wins in the future. Regardless of this, Yang’s good personality makes up for his lack of expertise.

4.Joe Hachem – $7,941,823

Known as one of the best players who have triumph in the WSOP in the past few years, Hachem have cash in from 8 events in the WSOP ever since and that includes managing to reach the final table twice where he ended up in the 2nd and 4th place. He also won the WPT Five Diamond event in 2006 adding another $2 million dollars in his earnings.

The 2005 WSOP Main Event is the official coming out party of Hachem but it also launches the Australian chant, “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie…Oy, Oy, Oy!!!”, to the rest of the world.

5.Allen Cunningham – $6,717,791

Allen Cunningham is the first non-Main Event poker player who made this list. At 32 years of age, Allen already won 5 bracelets and 40 cash in the WSOP to date. He is a long time poker professional who got his big win during the 2006 Main Event where he finished in the 4th place and won a pot of more than $3 million.

He may not be one of the most popular names in poker but Cunningham is one of the top tournament players in the poker world.

6.Greg Raymer – $6,487,512

Raymer is the first Main Event Champion who has profit from the increase in participants in the WSOP. He won the 2004 Main event against 2,576 players taking home the coveted prize of $5 million.

Greg “Fossilman” Raymer also proved that he is a true professional poker player by cashing in  11 more times since his big win in 2005 and that included a 3rd place feat during the 2009 $40k NLHE tournament.

7.Ivan Demidov – $6,468,381

He is the first non-bracelet winner on this list but he is considered as one of the most promising poker players since his runner up win in the 2008 Main Event. Demidov is from Russia and he also grabbed the 3rd place in the WSOP Europe Main and finishes 2nd in the WSOP Main Event at the same year.

8.Paul Wasicka – $6,192,711

Wasicka is known for winning the largest brides-maid payday in the history of poker. He is an instructor for Full Tilt Poker Academy and a pro for the same game. He already cash in 3 events and he’s another player to look out for in the years to come.

9.Phil Hellmuth – $6,054,988

Phil Hellmuth is one of the pompous poker brats in the history of poker and maybe it’s killing him that he only place 9th in this list. He has won 11 times in the WSOP but only receive $755,000 as his biggest paycheck.

Phil Hellmuth has also cash in 75 events in the WSOP (which is the most cashed in all time) but he has not yet takes home the kind of pot that everyone else in the Top 10 has. Obviously, he’s the hardest worker in the group. Others have commented that if he’ll reach the top 10 here without a million dollar check; the other players have already made at least $3 million dollars score.

10.Michael Binger – $4,853,748

He is known to be one of the most less popular players in the poker community, Michael Binger have already made 19 WSOP cashes in his career. He also grabbed the third place in the 2006 Main Events wherein the top 4 players of that year have a place here in this list.

He has a PhD in theoretical physics but Binger opts to play poker instead of working at CERN. He has chosen this path because it pays rather well than the latter.

When you give back a wallet full of money it is given that you’ll think that you might get a reward for your honesty. But oftentimes, the only thing that you’ll get is a simple thank your from the indebted owner.

Another common example would have happened to your during your school years. Somehow that time you’ve experience studying a lot on a subject anticipating that you’ll get good results in your exams. On the other hand, you also expect that you will fail a subject that you’re not interested in studying. But the thing is that, the results are not what you anticipate it to be; you got a very high score at the subjects you’re not interested with and failed on the subject you expected to have ace results.

At work, some employees work hard to achieve promotions and salary raises but we observe that a lot of hard-working people have been ignored on promotions, laid off and been force to low grade their salaries.

What I mean is that people always think that they are worthy of something for their efforts but sometimes it is very probable that you’ll get a very different outcome.

A fine example of poker entitlement would be Phil Hellmuth. Phil is identified for saying this statement: “If it wasn’t for luck, I guess I’d win them all.” This individual considers that playing with a good game plan give him the privilege to win. But now he’s knowledge is a little wider for he acknowledges that luck is a key factor in poker, but he still believes that a superior hand will win against an inferior one all the time.

This way of reasoning made him ignore other factors in the game. One instance would be his tirade with Adam “Roothlus” Levy in WSOP Main Event 2008. It happened early in the game when they are bought deep stacked: Hellmuth raised with a pair of 9 and Levy called with QTs. As the game was played, a 9 turned up and it gave Phil a set, but unfortunately it gave Levy a nut straight. Phil Hellmuth lose a fairly big pot and he rant on Levy, saying things demeaning his game play. The reality is that Levy played his hand flawlessly: Phil was so mad on how the game turned against him even if he has the hit the set – which he permitted his belief of entitlement shadow what was really going on through the game.

Both players have deep stacks, Levy is in position and Phil has a rep as a loose player. He even commented during bet on the final card, “Could I be good enough to play QT like this?” It means that the range of his hand consists of a QT here, but he still called Levy an idiot for playing the very same hand.

If you desire to be an excellent poker player you need to erase all sense of entitlement in your self. All you need to do is place your money on the best play you’ll have and then let fate have his way. It’s true that sometimes you’ll get poor results on your good plays but in the end it will be balance out.

In the poker table, the only thing that you’re entitled with is you’ll be dealt with cards. Then all the things that will happen afterwards will depend on your own choices and fate. But keep in mind that your decisions will be the turning point of your poker career: Fate will just tell you the time that you deserve to win.

The other poker pro who won the Triple Crown was Gavin Griffin. He is the first player who actually got this honor by winning the following events: winning the $3,000 Pot Limit Hold ‘Em at the WSOP in 2004, capturing the EPT Grand Final title in 2007 and succeeding in getting the title at the WPT Borgata classic in 2008.

De Wolfe got his first crown from winning the WPT Grand Prix De Paris in 2005; the second one from winning the EPT Dublin Title in 2006 and his last one from winning against 197 players including Griffin during the $5,000 PLO8 event at the WSOP 2009.

Once a contributor at a poker magazine called Edge, De Wolfe admitted that he’s really not familiar with the variety of poker that gave him his first WSOP bracelet. He just combined his knowledge of the PLO and Omaha 8 and came out triumphant.

Since 2005, De Wolfe has been a permanent face in the European and American poker scene. This started when he won the $1,000 NLHE event gaining his first WSOP cash. For the record, Roland didn’t get his highest pay from the three wins; he got it from the $25,000 WPT Championship event where he finished third and he took home at least a million.

The WSOP crown was his first win in the US soil but he has a great record in his preceding WSOP events including 14 WSOP cashes and at least $650,000 in WSOP earning throughout his career.

EPT is generating big numbers in the recent years and time is the only factor when the two member club will increase it numbers. The EPT tournaments happen to be popular today with a lot of top US players traveling to Europe to join its events.

Maybe in the near future the Aussie Millions and the Asian Pacific Poker Tour will be augmented to the EPT, WPT and WSOP to create a Grand Slam.

Look at how the competitors in the WSOP Main Event unfolds: 2003 started out with only 830 entries, this is also the time that Moneymaker made run to the finals and won. In 2004, the number of entries had gone on the roof with more than 3 times than the previous year with 2,576 entrants. In 2005, players that enter in the event was 5,619. And the highest would be in 2006 with 8,773 entries. While in 2007 and 2008 have gone low with 6, 358 and 6, 844 entrants.

The sudden decrease in number from 2006 can be simply blamed into the passage of the UIGEA which eventually earmark the withdrawal of vital poker sites from the US market. And this event causes the decrease of people who are enthusiastically playing online and also a decrease in satellite chances in order to get an opportunity to play in major competitions.

Though the government had made issues concerning online gambling and doubled their efforts in order to smashed this recreation, the numbers of entries following the UIGEA passage can’t lie. It means that a lot of people are really drawn to poker online that they can’t be stopped.

One testament would be the huge success of the $1,000 NLHE tournament, also called the “Stimulus Special” by the WSOP brass. This poker comp holds the largest stat in a non-Main Event history of WSOP with more than 6,000 entrants. But the large number of players did not stop poker pro Steve sung to bag the title and win his first ever WSOP bracelet.

It will be hard to say if the players this year can reach 6,000 because of all the hinders such as the recession, swine flu and more UIGEA forces. But as the number in the preliminaries are big, maybe the Main event this present year will turnout to be one of the largest so far.

Since there is a surge of population despite the UIGEA maybe it will be time for the government to legalize and legislate poker in the internet. Poker is a fun and entertaining game and I’m certain that there would be more happy faces when the UIGEA will be repelled.