Do we ever stop talking about the World Series of Poker? Of course not! For better or worse, right now it's the Big Papi of poker tournaments. A few changes that I'm excited to see:

1. No "poker tent." --Last year during the series, Vegas regularly experienced temperatures in excess of 100 degrees. Surrounded by grandiose buildings featuring some of the most expensively fabricated, closely controlled environments in the world, we poker players joined the homeless in being the only fools sitting in a tent in Las Freaking Vegas.

2. Beefing up the Heads-Up Championship to $10k.--Now this is what I'm talking about. The NBC Heads-Up Championship is 20k but there's only 64 people and it's invite only. Making the WSOP one $10k means that we'll start seeing this become the event it deserves. I'm also glad to see they're limiting entrants to 256. While I'd love to see it grow to 512, at least no one will get a by, which I totally profited... well... by. Perhaps the best situation is a to limit it to 256 but start a (refundable) waitlist on the off-chance that it does grow.

3. Continuing a online poker tournament for charity.--I'd love to see Harrah's commit to donating one percent of the their profits to charity (like many of the pros do) but at least they are again hosting and hyping the Ante Up for Africa tournament, with Annie Duke. This is a good thing.

4. Keeping the number of tournaments at "only" 55.--I can see how it would be tempting to add more tournaments but this would only dilute the prize pools and reduce the significance of winning a bracelet. Nice call.

I'd love to see online registration and unrestricted media access. After all, the world loves poker and getting some major media reporters into the Rio could only help the industry.

Paul Wasicka is a professional poker player based in Las Vegas, NV. For more about Paul, check www.kwickfish.com