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The World Series of Poker's Main Event starts on Monday, July 5. Casino City's Vin Narayanan provides his top-10 list of things to watch for at poker's biggest event of the year.

Twenty-four-year-old online poker pro Jesse Rockowitz from Petaluma, Calif., obliterated a field of 3,097 players to capture the sixth $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em title (Event #45) at the World Series of Poker for a $721,373 payday.

Last year, eight days after his own wedding, Matt Matros was in Las Vegas trying to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, and his wife was back home in New York. What a honeymoon.

The “Best Poker Players Never to Win a World Series of Poker Gold Bracelet” list got one player shorter over the weekend, as Gavin Smith won the $2,500 Mixed Hold’em championship (Event #44) to earn $268,238 and his first WSOP bracelet on Saturday night.

Ian Gordon won the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship (Event #43) at the World Series of Poker. Gordon, a 24-year-old poker pro, earned a well-deserved, and some might say surprising breakthrough victory, collecting $611,666 in prize money.

Dean Hamrick is primarily known as the player finished one position away from being knighted as an inaugural "November Nine" finalist in 2008, but now, he can lay claim to poker's most coveted prize a World Series of Poker bracelet.

Steve Jelinek of Birmingham, England, became the fifth English player to win a World Series of Poker bracelet this summer, topping a field of 847 players in the $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split event to claim the $245,871 first-place prize.

Frank Kassela captured the $2,500 Seven-Card Razz event just two weeks after winning the Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split championship.

Despite finishing Day 1 in last place among those still in the hunt for the $2,500 Razz championship at the World Series of Poker, Frank Kassela posted an unbelievable comeback to win his second gold bracelet of the summer.

Steven Kelly won the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout (Event #39) at the World Series of Poker on Thursday morning to claim his first WSOP gold bracelet and $382,725.

Scott Montgomery, who finished fifth in the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event, won the fourth $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em championship at the WSOP on Wednesday night to win $481,760.

Valdemar “Luigi” Kwaysser won the $10,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Hold’em World Championship at the World Series of Poker on Wednesday morning. It was the first WSOP bracelet for the resident of Budapest, Hungary, worth $617,214.

Eyaz Mahmood defeated Ernst Schmejkal in final match of the $10,000 buy-in Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em championship at the World Series of Poker on Monday to win $625,674.

Phil Ivey won the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship at the World Series of Poker on Tuesday morning to claim his eighth WSOP bracelet and his third in two years. And oh yeah, he took home $329,840 for first place.

Harold Angle won the $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em World Championship at the World Series of Poker on Monday morning. It was the biggest senior’s poker event ever on record, with Angle outlasting a field of 3,142 players to win $487,994.

More than half of the bracelet events at the 2010 World Series of Poker have been completed, and we’re just two weeks away from the start of the Main Event. Sounds like it's time to look back at the top stories of this year’s WSOP.

Jeffrey Pompola defeated Men "the Master" Nguyen heads-up to win the $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship at the World Series of Poker.

Luis Velador won the $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold’em/Pot-Limit Omaha championship (Event #33) at the World Series of Poker on Saturday night to claim $260,552 and his second WSOP gold bracelet.

Jeffrey Papola won the $5,000 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em championship (Event #32) at the World Series of Poker on Sunday morning, defeating seven-time WSOP bracelet winner Men “the Master” Nguyen heads up for the title.