This is the time of year that I’m swamped with work covering the World Series of Poker. The World Series of Poker is a great time to do poker SEO and get the ball rolling on your sites. I spend 8 hours a day watching chip counts and keeping track of who’s on a streak or not. Phil Hellmuth is always fun to watch!

For me, the 2010 WSOP Player’s Championship is the most important event other than the main event. Well, it’s the most important for SEO because it signifies what cash game players have the bankroll or backers to play in the toughest tournament of the year. Here is are the current chip counts in the 2010 WSOP Player’s championship:

1
Alexander Kostritsyn1,620,000
-30,000Moscow
-
Russia
2
David Oppenheim1,170,000
+280,000Calabasas
CA
United States
3
Mikael Thuritz1,060,000
+180,000-
-
Sweden
4
Vladimir Schmelev820,000
-10,000St Petersburg
-
Russia
5
Nick Schulman820,000
+160,000New York
NY
United States
6
Lyle Berman810,000
+545,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
7
Erik Sagstrom730,000
+85,000Goteborg
-
Sweden
8
James Van Alstyne730,000
+10,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
9
Michael Mizrachi720,000
+30,000Miami
FL
United States
10
Andy Bloch688,000
-12,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
11
Erik Seidel680,000
+70,000Henderson
NV
United States
12
Abe Mosseri640,000
-New York
NY
United States
13
Robert Mizrachi630,000
-196,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
14
Eli Elezra610,000
+400,000Henderson
NV
United States
15
David Singer605,000
-60,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
16
Kirk Morrison570,000
-10,000Wichita
KS
United States
17
Cole South570,000
-30,000Richmond
VA
United States
18
David Baker540,000
+165,000Rochester Hills
MI
United States
19
Brett Richey528,000
-52,000New York
NY
United States
20
Ilya Bulychev460,000
-30,500-
-
Germany
21
Hasan Habib415,000
+255,000Downey
CA
United States
22
Allen Bari340,000
+200,000West Orange
NJ
United States
23
John Juanda305,000
-45,000Las Vegas
NV
United States
24
Daniel Alaei300,000
+15,000Los Angeles
CA
United States
25
Chris Ferguson290,000
+110,000Pacific Palisades
CA
United States
26
Nikolay Evdakov160,000
-150,000Moscow
-
Russia
27
David Steicke145,000
-175,000Rome
-
Italy
28
Joseph Serock115,000
-215,000Albuquerque
NM
United States

Hot poker babes in the WSOP are also great to write about and post pics. Trust me, these get great traffic that returns for many years to come. Like poker player Samantha Ryan Photos :

The Poker News and WSOP.com coverage has been horrible from the sites crashing. This is the time to take advantage of that and promote your own site! Full Tilt Poker is even covering all there pros at the 2010 WSOP with their WSOP series coverage page.