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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 […]

In 2003, Chris Moneymaker stunned the poker world when he became the world champion from an $86 WSOP online satellite qualifier. In 2024, GGPoker will be sending over 1,000 players to the World Series via online events, but 21 years ago, the opportunity was rare. That was until Moneymaker kicked the door open for online […]

In 2002, Robert Varkonyi won the World Championship. Largely forgotten, he was rarely seen at the felt again. By contrast, the 2003 WSOP Main Event winner was a man whose face we haven’t seen for a week in the two decades since. In 2003, poker changed forever, and it all came down to a completely […]

In the final year before the infamous ‘poker boom’ of the new millennium, a new record attendance was set, and a mammoth 35 bracelet series created a party atmosphere in Las Vegas, Nevada. Two Phils caused plenty of headlines for very different reasons, and two British players reached the final nine as the WSOP Main […]