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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 […]

In the first part of this three-part series we looked at the formation of the World Series of Poker and had a look at the original legends and WSOP main event winners, such as Doyle Brunson and the Johnny’s, Chan and Moss. Part two had us remembering the growth of poker through the 90’s and […]