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With the scent of the most famous poker tournament in the world still fresh in the air, Caesars Interactive Entertainment has announced the dates for the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP). As it stands now, it looks like the schedule will be virtually identical to this year’s poker festival.

The fun will kick off on Wednesday, May 29th with the start of round-the-clock cash games. The traditional first tournament, the Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em Event, will almost certainly start on opening day, as well.

The 2013 WSOP will run for 49 consecutive days, culminating with the elimination of the 10th place finish of the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event on Tuesday, July 16th, setting up the final table. It is expected that, as has become the new tradition, the Main Event will be paused until the “November Nine” reunite in the fall. The Main Event will span more than a week, beginning Sunday, July 7th with the first of three Day 1 flights and ending, at least temporarily, on the aforementioned July 16th.

The actual day-by-day schedule has yet to be determined, but should not look too different than this year’s. There will be around 60 events (there were 61 this year), including the usual Ladies and Seniors events. In a press release, WSOP staff said that the weekends would be geared towards No-Limit Hold’em events, likely because those are the easiest days of the week for casual players to get to the Rio to participate. In 2012, 17 different No-Limit Hold’em events started on a Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.

One of those 17 events was The Big One for One Drop, the grand $1 million buy-in event in which one-ninth of the buy-in went to charity. That tournament will not be played in 2013, but it was announced during this past Main Event final table that it will return in 2014.

A total of 74,766 poker players registered for the 61 events at the 2012 World Series of Poker, creating a total prize pool that eclipsed $222 million, a new WSOP record. The Main Event saw 6,598 test their skill to try to win a piece of the $62,031,385 prize pool. Maryland’s Greg Merson won the $8,531,853 first prize. It was a marathon final table, taking almost 13 hours just to narrow the field from the final three to the winner. 399 hands were played across both days of the final table, shattering the previous record of 364.



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The Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) is a species of large antelope in the Oryx genus. Originally inhabiting the steppes and deserts of North Africa, it is currently extinct in the wild. Although there were reported sightings in Chad and Niger, attempts to independently verify these claims in a survey conducted from 2001 to 2004 turned up no trace of them in the wild. Currently, around 1250 live in captivity in fenced-off areas in conservation centers as distant from each other as Texas and Morocco.

The Scimitar-horned Oryx's most notable feature are its long, slender horns, which in both the male and female can reach between one and one and one quarter meters (3.28 - 4.1 ft) in length. The horns are truly distinctive in the way they arch backward like scimitars, the Middle-Eastern curved sword from which they take their name. The average Scimitar Oryx is about a meter (3.28 ft) tall and weighs roughly two hundred kilograms (440 lbs). Its coat is generally light in color with a dark red patch on its chest, and has markings along the its nose and forehead.

The Scimitar-horned oryx's diet consists of grass, leaves, and any other wild vegetation it can find. When hundreds of herds roamed the North African steppes, its main predators were lions, leopards, and hyenas. However, it was human hunters, who sought the oryx for its horns, who drove it to the brink of extinction.

One of the more fascinating things about the Scimitar-horned Oryx is its connection to the mythological unicorn. Because their horns are not like the antlers of other related species in that they do not grow back, many mythographers have hypothesized that members of the species who lost one their horns might have been mistaken for the legendary creatures by early European explorers and colonists in North Africa. What would have added to the impression is the fact that single-horned Scimitar Oryxes are quite often ostracized from their herds, forcing them to wander the steppes alone in order to survive. To Europeans, this perfectly matched the image of the unicorn, which was known for its pride and independent nature.

Even though they are extinct in the wild, there is still hope that it will be able to be reintroduced to the wild at some point. In Tunisia, there is a nature preserve which houses a small herd with precisely this end in mind. Also, as recently as this April, the first calf in 13 years was born at the National Zoo in Fort Royal, Virginia. With luck, within our lifetime, these pro-unicorns may roam the wild again.

Picture of the scimitar-horned oryx by Albinfo, licensed under GFDL


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Two swimmers enjoy a preternatural calm on a summer's day on Lake Winnipeg.

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