WSOP Tournament of Champions, a million dollar freeroll for 27 players, starts today alkaa tänään. The list of 20 players that got their seat from the online vote contains no real surprises, except maybe for the fact that the post-poker boom generation of top players was almost completely overlooked.

WSOP Tournament of Champions will have a total field of 27. Five players were automatically included: current world champion Joe Cada, WSOP Europe champion Barry Shulman and previous TOC winners Annie Duke, Mike Matusow and Mike Sexton. The remaining two places are for sponsor exemtions: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier as the WSOP Academy playoff winner (a 9-player tournament were the invitees were non-bracelet winners), and Andrew Barton as WSOP.com UK qualifier.

WSOP Tournament of Champions 2010 players:

Phil Ivey
Daniel Negreanu
Doyle Brunson
Phil Hellmuth
Chris Ferguson
Allen Cunningham
Johnny Chan
Scotty Nguyen
Barry Greenstein
John Juanda
Erik Seidel
Jennifer Harman
Huck Seed
Dan Harrington
TJ Cloutier
Sam Farha
Howard Lederer
Greg Raymer
Joe Hachem
Antonio Esfandiari
Joe Cada
Barry Schulman
Annie Duke
Mike Matusow
Mike Sexton
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Andrew Barton

TOC is played over three days on 27th and 28th of June and 4th of July. The tournament will be televised by ESPN.

Tournament of Champions kicks off on Sunday. For Pokernews live reporting, click here.