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After back-to-back years where the youngest-ever Main Event winner changed from the 1989 winner Phil Hellmuth (24) to Peter Eastgate (22) in 2008 to Joe Cada (21) in 2009, the 2010 WSOP Main Event was not so much about the final table drama. Sure, that’s where the money was handed out, and the glittering bracelet […]

Back in 2009, the World Series of Poker celebrated its 40th anniversary. After the disaster of the 25th anniversary and the awarding of Russ Hamilton—the man behind the Ultimate Bet scandal—his own weight in silver, no rubies were being weighed at the close of the 2009 WSOP Main Event. Instead, a new record was set […]

In 2008, the world record for the youngest-ever world champion was broken after 19 long years. In 1989, 24-year-old Phil Hellmuth changed the course of poker’s future when he toppled Johnny Chan for $755,000 at Binion’s Horseshoe. Almost two decades later, his record was broken as a 22-year-old took the title for $9.15m at The […]

The 2007 WSOP Main Event was the first WSOP World Championship event in fifteen years that did not see a bigger attendance than the year before. In fact, there were over 2,000 fewer players than in 2006 when Jamie Gold lifted the world-famous World Series of Poker bracelet and joined the list of champions winning […]

With 10% of the field now paid a profit on their $10,000 buy-in as standard, 873 players were looking forward to money, even if the ‘min-cash’ was $10,616 for finishing in 873rd place, which was done by 11 players! Players from all over the world cashed, with Russian Vitaly Lunkin (829th), Canada’s Danny Li (697th), […]

The year following Joe Hachem’s record-setting $7.5m top prize that he took back to Australia, the championship would return to an American. This time, however, the prize money reached ridiculous levels, with an incredible $12 million up top. A total of 46 events and a Main Event populated by 8,773 players, who would win the […]

Ivey Misses Out Yet Again It is perhaps one of the greatest ironies of the World Series of Poker Main Event that, try as he might, Phil Ivey seems unable to ever reach the final table. The legendary bracelet winner again got close to the prize in 2005, two years after Chris Moneymaker rivered him […]

One year after Greg ‘Fossilman’ Raymer won $5m in the biggest World Championship in WSOP history, the top prize in the World Series main event was even bigger. The winner of the 2005 WSOP Main Event took home $7.5 million, and a very famous foreigner created headlines all over the world. There was also a […]

With so many entrants into this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, the first issue for debate was how many players would be paid from the thousands that entered. As it turned out, the organizers settled on 225 paid places, with previous two-time runner-up Duane ‘Dewey’ Tomko sneaking into the money in 225th place […]

One year removed from Chris Moneymaker’s incredible Main Event victory, the so-called ‘poker boom’ happened, and the realm of poker exploded. The World Championship of 2004 had three times the 839 entries of 2003, as a jaw-dropping 2,576 played the $10,000-entry World Series of Poker Main Event. In the end, if Moneymaker’s breakthrough year was […]