2006 WSOP Bracelet Unveiled
The crowning glory of a poker champion is not a crown, nor a giant trophy. It’s a bracelet. And on June 6, Harrah’s unveiled World Series of Poker bracelets that will be awarded to this year’s WSOP events winners.
For many years now the WSOP has awarded gold bracelets to poker winners. These bracelets not only recognize the achievement of winning a WSOP tournament but also have become the benchmark of success in the poker community.
“It’s impossible to overstate the value of a World Series of Poker gold bracelet to anyone who takes the game seriously,” says WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack during the unveiling. “It is the equivalent of winning the Stanley Cup in hockey or the Lombardi Trophy in football.”
This year’s WSOP has forty five events and, for forty four of them, the bracelet will be special. The bracelets are made from 14-karat yellow gold and accentuated by full cut white diamonds. The center plaque of the bracelet will have one-third a carat of diamonds and be held together by thirty five grams of solid diamond cut rope chain.
But the winner of the $10,000 Championship Event, in addition to the estimated $10 million first place cash prize, will get a specially created bracelet made from 14-karat white and yellow gold with full cut diamonds. The plaque that is the centerpiece of the bracelet will have 170 hand picked diamonds weighing in at six carats.
Each suit displayed under the World Series of Poker logo are created from jewels (a heart shaped ruby, a princess cut ruby for diamonds, a black sapphire for the spades and three round black diamonds for clubs) that will separate the WSOP Champion’s bracelet from the others. Holding this together will be a solid diamond cut rope chain that weighs almost sixty grams.
You can win one of these priceless WSOP bracelets by grabbing a Free WSOP seat from top online poker rooms:
- Bodog has 700 WSOP seats Free
- FullTilt Poker has a monthly WSOP 20 Seat Freerolls
- CD Poker has WSOP 2006 Main Event Super Satellites
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June 18th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
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June 20th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
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June 26th, 2006 at 4:07 am
[...] This year some 10,000 players are expected to arrive at the Rio All-Suite Hotel for the tournament and an estimated $10 million will go to this year’s Main Event winner. This means every one lucky enough to make the final table will instantly become a millionaire. Add to that the new series of WSOP bracelets in 14-karat gold imbedded with diamonds and other precious jewels. [...]