The 2008 WPT Legends of Poker tournament started late last month. So far they’ve played 24 events, and the $10,000 main event started on Saturday. It will run for four days, and wind up some time on Thursday. All the events before the big main event were $1000 or smaller buy-ins.

Behzad Teranie won the $1000 no-limit hold’em event #24, and took home $51,570 for his efforts. Second-place prize money of $25,270 went to Ian Kim. In the $1000 no-limit hold’em event # 21, Ablahad “Fast Eddie AS” Salim won first-place prize money of $97,620. Second-place money of $48,545 went to Tu Huynh.

Men “The Master” Nguyen added another first-place finish to his long list of cashes when he won the $500 Omaha High/Low event #15. He took home a modest $20,535 after outlasting second-place finisher John Bessent, who won $10,050 as the runner-up.

The WPT World Championship has wrapped up at the Bellagio and David Chiu is the big winner for 2008. Chui was able to battle back from a 6:1 chip deficit against Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen to win the $3,389,140 first prize. He also gets a new WPT bracelet and an entry into the $25,000 WPT Season 7 Championship.

Hansen had to settle for the $1,714,800 second-place money, and will likely take a little while to deal with a loss that should never have happened. Even on the last hand, Chiu had to hit a river ace to beat Gus.

Chiu is no stranger to the winner’s position. He has numerous victories including four WSOP bracelets to his credit. He was already considered one of the world’s best players, and now this impressive win solidifies his presence in the elite category of the world’s best poker players.

If you’ve never played in a huge poker event you probably don’t know how necessary listening to an iPod can be while playing poker. If you’ve ever played in a World Series of Poker event you know how insanely annoying it is when a 1,000 people in one room are riffling their chips. So if you are heading to the WSOP next year or get into a WPT main event, invest in an iPod beforehand.

Now that you’ve got your iPod to distract you from incessant chip noise and maybe even some annoying fellow players, what are you going to listen to? You could put together a mix of gambling-related songs like Kenny Rogers’ “The Gambler”, and “Ace of Spades” by Motorhead. But going from Kenny to Motorhead is more than a little disjointed, and how geeky will you look with your super gambling music mix anyway.

When you’re loading up your iPod with poker tourney music, try and go as eclectic as you possibly can. Try and load up some different music for all the moods you might go through during the tourney. If you expect to last into the early hours, put in some tunes with some drive to them to help keep you awake. Something with some kick to it like old-school Metallica or AC/DC.

On the other hand, try and find something soothing and relaxing for those times when you suffer a bad beat and you need to quickly mellow out to avoid going on tilt. Even if you have to throw on some instrumental muzak that’s fine, as long as it does its job.

Also make sure you load on a bunch of tunes you actually like. Keep your spirits up and keep your confidence booming by listening to some tunes that really get you going. Whether it’s new pop, classic rock, punk, grunge, country or whatever, get some tunes that are easy to listen to, but also easy to drown out when you need to focus on the cards.

Whatever you end up putting on your iPod, just make sure you don’t start singing along.