Win a VIP Package and a Seat into the WSOP Main Event from Jamie Gold
The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event starts in a few weeks, and poker fans have an opportunity to win their way into the biggest event of the year through 2006 world champion Jamie Gold and Commerce Casino.
This time of year, every year, poker players from all around the world are dreaming of entering the Main Event. But with the $10,000 entry fee being above most player's bankroll, it can be difficult for some to come up with the cash. There are satellite tournaments that help lessen the expense, and it's common to sell action for the big event.
Gold, however, in partnership with his home card room, is giving everyone — regardless of where they live — an opportunity to not only win a seat into the 2024 WSOP Main Event, but also receive $2,000 worth of travel expenses to Las Vegas and get poker coaching from the 2006 world champion. Interested poker players can enter the drawing by following the instructions Gold listed in the below tweet.
Poker Champ Provides Contest Details
Gold told PokerNews he's thrilled to partner with Commerce Casino, the Los Angeles area poker room — the largest in the world — he's been visiting for over 30 years.
“Commerce made a renewed commitment to poker, and specifically to players so that they can support new players, existing players, and the legends, and help create new careers in poker for people," Gold said.
The former world champ and Los Angeles resident continued to say that Commerce "wanted to be extra generous and give away a package for anyone in the world to have the opportunity that I had at the Main Event at the World Series of Poker."
The rules for the drawing, to be held June 25, are simple (just follow the instructions in the tweet), but the Main Event seat is non-transferable and cannot be redeemed for cash. Gold stresses that it's important for those entering the contest to only tag X users who play poker.
Gold is offering up coaching prior to and during the Main Event to the contest winner. But he said they aren't obligated to accept his free coaching.
“I can give them a lot of the highlights that they’d be getting from other coaches and great players in a few minutes," Gold said. "I am not a substitute for an incredible coach that you would want to have all year round, and I am not trying to take the place of these experienced coaches.”
Commerce recently hosted a World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) series, which included the WSOP Tournament of Champions $1 million freeroll. The card room will host another Circuit series in November. Commerce will give out 100 free seats to the WSOPC Main Event over the coming months to players who visit the poker room.
Gold is passionate about the poker room he calls home, and praised the staff — and he named specific names (Spencer Villasenor, Kym Sleezer, Shalin Hall, Ann Chua, and Jonathan Ing) — that has been "such a pleasure to work with."
“I believe that most of the greatest players that have ever been in Los Angeles have played at the Commerce," Gold argues.
Gold already has over 20 players entering the WSOP Main Event he will be coaching. And he'll be adding one more, providing tips and advice before the tournament begins and during breaks throughout the Main Event.
