The World Series of Poker owned by Harrah’s has just announced their World Series of Poker Europe tournaments.  There will be 4 events played from September 19, 2008 to Thursday  October 02, 2008.

The WSOPE will be played at the London Clubs International. You can currently register at the Rio in Las Vegas for all of the events until Sept. 1st. They are also running satellites at the Rio for players looking to satellite their way into the events.

The first tournament will be a 4 day No Limit Hold-em event. It will have a £1,500 buy-in. The second event will be a HORSE event with a buy-in of £2,500 and will be 3 days. The 3rd event will be Pot Limit Omaha and will also be 3 days with a  £5,000  buy-in.

The 2008 WSOPE Main event will start on September 27th and will run for 6 days. It will be a No Limit Hold-em Event and will have a £10,000 buy-in.

BodogPoker is currently the only room running WSOPE qualifiers but I wouldn’t be surprised if more rooms start running them.

Calvin Ayre has announced that he will no longer be running Bodog Life. Bodog is one of the largest online gambling companies with a poker room, casino and online sportsbook.

Calvin Ayre started Bodog in 1994 and has run the company ever since. There have been reports that in 2006 when they started the transferring the company to the Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, Calvin Ayre began to take a smaller role in the company. There is currently a board set up that will run the company and has been for the past two years and has recently expanded of the bodog brand into Europe and Asia.

There are rumblings online that Calvin Ayre will still have a large stake in the company and is taking a back seat so he will be able to travel and live his life without risking legal trouble in other countries outside of his current residence in Costa Rica. This is just rumors but on the official Calvin Ayre blog he talks about being able to live his life without having to focus all his attention on the Bodog brand.

Bodog Poker.com is a popular us poker site that offers poker players an online poker room with large tournament overlays and slick poker software.

The Asia Pacific Poker Tour has announced that they will be holding the first real money poker tournament in China. The tournament will be held in Macau and will be a USD $2,500 buy-in and will be played on November 22-27. The tournament will be held at the first five star resort in China the Grand Waldo Hotel and Casino.

Poker Stars.net is the sole sponsor for the tournament and has stated that team poker stars pro’s will be playing in the tournament. The $2500 buy-in main event will not be the only tournament played at Macau. There will be a few other poker tournaments including a high roller $15,000 event.

The APPT is a new poker tournament and in it’s first season will have had poker tournaments in the Philippines, Korea, Macau and Australia.