The World Series of Poker Circuit has seven events planed for 2008. There are tournaments planned right up until the WSOP 2008 begins in May. Here’s the lineup for the events, and where and when they’ll be played.

Grand Casino Tunica                 1/3/08 - 1/22/08

Harrah’s Rincon San Diego        1/27/08 - 2/7/08

Horseshoe Council Bluffs           2/18/08 - 2/27/08

Caesars Atlantic City                  3/5/08 - 3/15/08

Caesars Indiana                          4/2/08 - 4/16/08

Caesars Palace Las Vegas         4/20/08 - 5/1/08

Harrah’s New Orleans                 5/9/08 - 5/21/08

The winners from these $5000 buy-in events will also get a seat into the WSOP 2008 Main Event in Vegas. All the events have various buy-in tournaments, the same way the WSOP does. So anyone can go and play. The schedule for the WSOP 2008 is still being worked on, but the dates for the event have been announced as May 30 to July 17.

Every strip poker game I’ve played started off with someone needing to set the rules. Winning at strip poker is not about cash – it’s about getting your opponents out of their clothes. So if you’ve managed to find a couple of members of the opposite sex to play strip poker with, you want to structure the game so you get to the action within the first ten hands. It’s been my experience that the longer the game goes, the more likely someone is going to chicken out and ruin the game.

Make sure you have an ante and a fast-blind structure. Target the least shy of the group to lose first, so they will actually go through with it, and the rest should follow suit from there.

Even if you have to get down to next to nothing to break the ice, once one person is naked your chances increase dramatically of seeing more nudity. Sort of a titillating takeoff on “Everybody into the pool!”