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Poker pro Dan Harrington won the WPT Legends of Poker event last year at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

After a mind-numbingly long period of very slow and boring news in the poker world, things are beginning to pick back up, and the WPT Legends of Poker event this weekend at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles signals that shift.

The $10,000 buy-in event has always drawn some of the biggest names in poker and last year was no exception. The final table featured poker pro David "The Dragon" Pham, 2007 WSOP Player of the Year Tom "DonkeyBomber" Schneider and eventual champion "Action" Dan Harrington, who took home the $1.6 million first-place prize. This year looks to be no different and will most likely be well-attended after the dearth of major poker tournament action over the last couple of months.

Day 1A of the WPT Legends of Poker kicks off tomorrow at Noon local time.

Coming up over the next couple of months is the APT Macau event next week, the similarly-named APPT Macau on September 1, the first WSOP Circuit event of the new season in early October and many, many more WPT events.

Online poker players have the chance to win a $12,000 prize package to one of these World Poker Tour events through the Bodog Poker "Player's Choice" promotion. Online satellites for the WPT run daily in the Bodog Poker room for as little as $1.