The Bellagio Las Vegas has released the schedule for the 2010 Five-Star World Poker Classic running from on March 30th to April 24th, 2010. This year’s tournament series will feature several changes, including an improved blind structure (100-200 in championship events and 50-100 in preliminary and daily events), larger starting chip stacks equivalent to four times the buy-in in all events, lower buy ins and six more preliminary events. Instead of 12 $2,500 buy-in events, this year tournament will offer 18 preliminary events featuring $1,000 buy-in with rebuys.

Harrah’s Enterprises, owner and operator of the WSOP, has released the official schedule of events for the 41st annual World Series of Poker set to kick off from May 27th, 2010 with the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em, and closing on November 9th, 2010 with the Main Event final table. The 2010 World Series of Poker schedule features a total of 57 bracelets events, including three new events ($50,000 Player’s Championship Event #2, $10,000 H.O.R.S.E Event #43, World Championship, $25,000 6-Handed No-Limit tournament Event #52)

Commerce Casino has released the official schedule of events for the 2010 L.A. Poker Classic running from January 21st to March 4th. The schedule features a total of 50 events, up from the 35 events offered in 2009, as well as two WPT events, as well as an estimated $20 million total prize pool, with $3.3 million in guarantees