If the 2008 wasn’t a profitable or successful year in terms of poker and you really think you need a fresh start, then you can forget about your luck and kick off the 2009 like you never did before with two extraordinary poker events scheduled on December 31^st and January 1^st at the luxurious Bellagio poker room.

The famous Las Vegas hotel and casino has recently announced that it will host two $540 buy-in tournaments featuring its normal 40 minute blinds tournament structure. But since this is the first time the Bellagio hosts these kinds of tournaments, players can expect a few changes, including a considerable increase in the stating chip stack, which will go from 6000 to 15.000 in chips.

“A lot of players are very excited for the 15,000 in chips,” expressed the Bellagio’s poker tournaments supervisor, Rob Moore.

According to Moore, the Bellagio is expecting to attract a few hundred players for the New Year’s Day tournament, which is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. In the other hand, the Bellagio has no official projections of how many players would join the New Year’s Eve tournament, which is programmed to start at 5:00 pm. Moore says that since most players will be recovering from the Holliday festivities, or might have other things planned for the evening, the number of players expected to attend the event is expected to remain below the one hundred mark.  Single table satellites for both events will be running at 9:00 a.m. each day. The Bellagio will be giving away two $540 seat, as well as $30 in cash for every 10 players that enter the $130 satellites.