The worlds of politics and poker will meet next week when former three-term New York Senator Alfonse D’Amato visits the World Series Of Poker (WSOP) 2009 in Las Vegas in order to take part in Event 43.

D’Amato is the current Chairman of the Poker Players Alliance, a non-profit organisation set up to help protect and fight for the rights of poker players in the US, and will arrive at the Rio All-Suite Hotel And Casino on Monday to hold a morning press conference. He is then scheduled to take to the tables at noon for the Seniors No-Limit Hold’Em World Championship.

According to a report from online information portal Pokerati.com, D’Amato is scheduled to join Nevada Representative Shelley Berkley for the event, which has a $1,000 buy-in.  

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