Gold ring season opens in southern Indiana this weekend.

Gold ring season opens in southern Indiana this weekend.

After a successful reboot at Council Bluffs, Iowa, in August, the WSOP Circuit wisely took a brief hiatus while the entire poker world converged on London for the month of September. Now it’s time for the traveling tournament series to get back to work in earnest with a series of tournaments in southern Indiana.

A total of 10 gold rings will be awarded at the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Southern Indiana: one for a half-hold’em/half-Omaha event, one for a HORSE event, one for a no-limit hold’em shootout, one for a six-max no-limit hold’em event, and the rest for full-ring no-limit hold’em tournaments. There’s plenty more poker going on, too, with nightly non-ring tournaments and plenty of cheap super satellites for the main event. The first ring event, a $350 no-limit hold’em freezeout, gets started this Saturday.

All of the ring events will award points toward the new WSOP Circuit Cumulative Point System, and the winner of the $1,500 Main Event will earn an automatic entry into the 2011 WSOP Circuit National Championship. Right now Blair Hinkle, winner of the main event at the season's first WSOPC stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is currently the only player guaranteed to play in that million-dollar freeroll.

Including the Horseshoe Southern Indiana stop, there are seven more stops on the WSOP Circuit schedule before the end of 2010. That total includes new events at the IP Casino Resort & Spa in Biloxi, Miss., and the Emerald Casino in South Africa.

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