Poker \"Dream Team\" Offers WSOP School for Fish

Joe Hachem, the 2005 WSOP Main Event champ is just one of several poker super stars teaching at the WSOP Academy. (AP Images)

Let's say you're heading to the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event - maybe you luckboxed you're way to a $12,000 prize package at Bodog - but you don't have the live experience of playing in what Harrah's is preparing to be a 10,000-strong field. On top of that you you know you're going to be facing the poker pros you see on TV and really don't want to come across as a complete newbie who might as well have "donkey" or "fish" tattooed across your forehead. 

With the date drawing ever closer you're wondering how you can survive long enough in this pressure-cooker of a poker tournament to get in on at least some of that multi-million dollar prize pool and get out of your cubicle hell. Well, the WSOP Academy might just have your answer.

The WSOP Academy, a series of instructional poker camps, has announced the first-ever Main Event Primer to help you prepare for poker's biggest event. The  three-day poker school will be held at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, starting July 3 and ending July 5, two days before the Main Event begins.

A "Dream Team" of instructors, including three guys who have won it all, Phil Hellmuth, Greg Raymer and Joe Hachem, will prepare you to survive and maybe even win the 2007 WSOP Main Event. Or at the least, let you in on the strategies they used to win it.

The school includes three days of instruction, a VIP party at PURE Nightclub and two private tournaments, the winner of each will receive a $10,000 seat to the Main Event.

"Where else could you have lunch with Phil Hellmuth, party with the top poker players in the world at PURE, have your play analyzed by Greg Raymer, and have Joe Navarro dissect a tell you're giving away at the table?" said Jeff Goldenberg of Post Oak Productions, the company that produces the WSOP Academy. 

Don't have a seat yet? Win a $12,000 prize package in one of the three weekly WSOP qualifiers at Bodog.com.