World Series of Poker

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World Series of Poker

Type	subsidiary
Founded	Las Vegas, Nevada (1970)
Headquarters	Las Vegas, Nevada
Key people	Jack Binion, Creator
Industry	Gaming
Products	Poker Tournament Slot Machines[1]
Owner(s)	Harrah's Entertainment, Current Binion's Horseshoe formerly
Website	www.wsop.com

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world".^[2] It is held annually in Las Vegas. The first WSOP occurred in 1970 was an invitational wherein Benny Binion invited six of the best known poker players to The Horseshoe Casino. At first, the WSOP grew slowly. It took twelve years before the event drew 52 participants in 1982.^[2] In the early 1980s satellites were introduced allowing people to win their way into the various events for less than the full entry fees.^[2] By 1987, there were over 2,100 entrants into the tournament.^[2] Participation peaked in 2006, with 8,773 people participating in the Main Event alone.^[j]

The first World Series of Poker was not a freeze out tournament, but rather an event with a set start and stop time with the winner determined by secret ballot.^[3] In 1973, a second event, five-card stud was added. Over the years most of the major poker variants have been played at one time or another. Since 2007, the WSOP has consisted of 55 events. While events traditionally take place over one or more consecutive days during the series in June and July, in 2008 the Main Event final table was delayed until November. The winner of each event wins a World Series of Poker bracelet and a monetary prize based on the number of entrants and buy-in amounts. A World Series of Poker bracelet is considered the most coveted prize or trophy a poker player can win, with one from the Main Event revered above all others.^[4] Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP. WSOP victories prior to 1976 are also known as "bracelets". Most of the major poker variants are featured, though in recent years over half of the events have been variants of Texas hold 'em.

The series culminates with the $10,000 no-limit hold'em "Main Event", which since 2004 has attracted entrants numbering in the thousands. The victor receives a multi-million dollar prize. The winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event is considered to be the World Champion of Poker.^[5]

Since its inception, Stu Ungar is the only player to have won the Main Event three times. Johnny Moss also holds three Main Event titles, however the first win was not played in the current tournament format but by a vote making Ungar the only three-time champion in terms of actual victories. Moss (if the first time win by vote is counted), Ungar, Doyle Brunson, and Johnny Chan are the only people who have won the Main Event for two consecutive years. Johnny Chan's second victory in 1988 was featured on the 1998 film Rounders. Phil Hellmuth holds multiple WSOP records: most bracelets (11), WSOP cashes (68) and most WSOP final tables (41).^[6] The current Main Event bracelet winner, Peter Eastgate is the youngest person to win the Main Event.^[7]

Main Event Entrants and First Place Prizes
(see below for complete and detailed list)

Year	Number of Entrants	First Place Prize
2000	512	$ 1,500,000
2001	613	$ 1,500,000
2002	631	$ 2,000,000
2003	839	$ 2,500,000
2004	2576	$ 5,000,000
2005	5619	$ 7,500,000
2006	8773	$12,000,000
2007	6358	$ 8,250,000
2008	6844	$ 9,152,416

Since 2005, the WSOP has been sponsored by Harrah's Entertainment.

Contents 1 Format 2 Highlights 3 History 3.1 Since acquisition by Harrah's 4 Main Event 4.1 Main Event results 5 Player of the Year 6 Marketing 7 WSOP television coverage 7.1 1970s-1980s 7.2 1990s 7.3 2000s 7.4 WSOP broadcasters 8 World Series of Poker Europe 9 Other information 10 See also 11 References 12 External links

[edit] Format

Since 1971, all WSOP events have been tournaments with cash prizes. In 1973 a five-card stud event was added. Since then, new events have been added and removed. In 2006 there were 45 events at the WSOP, covering the majority of poker variants. Currently, Texas hold 'Em, Omaha hold 'em and Seven-card stud and their lowball variants (if any) are played. H.O.R.S.E. has been played in the past and returned in 2006. Also, S.H.O.E. has been played in the past, and returned in 2007. Other events played in the past include Chinese poker, Five card stud, and many others.

Like most tournaments, the sponsoring casino takes an entry fee (a percentage between 6% and 10%, depending on the buy-in) and distributes the rest, hence the prize money increases with more players. In the 2005 main event US$52,818,610 in prize money was distributed among 560 players, with US$7.5 million to first prize.

[edit] Highlights

The number of participants in the WSOP grew every year from 2000 until 2006. Following 2006, new online gambling legislation restricted the number of online qualifiers to the event. 2007 was the first dip in numbers this part of the century while in 2008 more people participated than the previous year. In 2000 there were 4,780 entrants in the various events, but in 2005, the number rose to over 23,000 players. In the main event alone, the number of participants grew from 839 in 2003 to 8,773 in 2006.

Phil Hellmuth has the most bracelets with eleven, while Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan have each won ten bracelets. Crandell Addington is the only player to place in the top ten of the World Series of Poker Main Event eight times, albeit in earlier years with relatively small fields compared to modern times.

Four players have won the main event multiple times: Johnny Moss (1971 and 1974), Doyle Brunson (1976 and 1977), Stu Ungar (1980, 1981 and 1997) and Johnny Chan (1987 and 1988).

Bracelet winners who first achieved fame in other fields include French actor/singer Patrick Bruel (in 1998), Danish soccer player Jan Vang Sørensen (in 2002) and American actress Jennifer Tilly (in 2005).

[edit] History

The idea of a World Series of Poker began in 1969 with an event called the Texas Gambling Reunion, it was as an invitational event sponsored by Tom Moore of San Antonio, Texas, and held at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno. This inaugural event was won by Crandell Addington. The set of tournaments that the World Series of Poker (WSOP) would evolve into was the brainchild of Las Vegas casino owner and poker player Benny Binion.

In 1970, the first WSOP at Binion's Horseshoe took place as a series of cash games that included five-card stud, deuce to seven low-ball draw, razz, seven-card stud, and Texas hold 'em. The format for the Main Event as a freeze-out Texas hold 'em game came the next year. The winner in 1970, Johnny Moss, was elected by his peers as the first World Champion of Poker and received a silver cup as a prize.

[edit] Since acquisition by Harrah's

In 2004, Harrah's Entertainment purchased Binion's Horseshoe, kept the rights to the Horseshoe and World Series of Poker brands, sold the hotel and casino to MTR Gaming Group, and announced that the 2005 Series events would be held at the Harrah's-owned Rio Hotel and Casino, located just off the Las Vegas Strip. The final two days of the main event in 2005 were held downtown at what is now the MTR operated "Binion's" in celebration of the centennial of the founding of Las Vegas. It also added a made-for-television $2 million "freeroll" invitational "Tournament of Champions" (TOC) event first won by Annie Duke as a "winner-take-all" event.

Starting in 2005, the WSOP began a tournament "circuit" at Harrah's-owned properties in the United States where in addition to the $10,000 buy-in tournament at each site, qualifying players became eligible for a revamped Tournament of Champions. The 2005 TOC, made up of the top twenty qualifying players at each circuit event, along with the final table from the 2005 Main Event and the winners of nine or more bracelets (Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Phil Hellmuth) would participate in the revamped TOC at Caesar's Palace. Mike "The Mouth" Matusow won the first prize of $1 million (US), and all the players at the final table were guaranteed a minimum of $25,000 for the eighth and ninth place finishers. During a break in the final table of the 2005 Main Event on July 16, Harrah's announced that eleven properties — including the recently added Bally's and Caesar's properties — would host 2005-06 WSOP Circuit events that started on August 11 in Tunica, Mississippi. One event, that was scheduled for Biloxi, Mississippi was canceled after the Grand Casino Biloxi, which was scheduled to host the event, suffered major damage from Hurricane Katrina.

The Rio also hosted the 2006 World Series of Poker, which began on June 25 with satellite events and formally began the day after with the annual Casino Employee event, won in 2006 by Chris Gros. 2006 featured the "Tournament of Champions" on June 25 and 26, won by Mike Sexton. Various events led up to the main event, which was held from July 28 until August 10. The first prize of $12 million was awarded to Jamie Gold.

[edit] Main Event

The Main Event of the WSOP has been the $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold 'Em (TXHE) tournament since 1972. (In 1971, the buy-in was $5,000.) Winners of the event not only get the largest prize of the tournament and a gold bracelet, but additionally their picture is placed into the Gallery of Champions at Binion's.

The winner of the Main Event has traditionally been given the unofficial title of World Champion. However the game's top professionals^[who?] have stated that the recently-added $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event is the one which ultimately decides the world's best player. The $50,000 buy-in, being five times larger than the buy-in for the Main Event, has thus far tended to deter amateurs from playing in the H.O.R.S.E. The H.O.R.S.E. tournament was won by Chip Reese in 2006, Freddy Deeb in 2007, and Scotty Nguyen in 2008. Since Reese's death in December 2007, the winner of this event wins the David 'Chip' Reese Memorial Trophy in addition to the bracelet and the prize money.

There have been many memorable moments during the main events, including Jack Straus's 1982 comeback win after discovering he had one $500 chip left when he thought he was out of the tournament.

The end of the 1988 main event was featured in the movie Rounders.

Chris Moneymaker and Greg Raymer, the winners in 2003 and 2004, both qualified for the main event through satellite tournaments at the PokerStars online cardroom.

Jerry Yang, the winner in 2007, had only been playing poker for two years prior to his victory. He won his seat at a $225 satellite tournament at Pechanga Resort & Casino.

With passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006 online poker sites have been barred from purchasing entrance directly for their users. This may have been the cause of the smaller field size in 2007.

With the exception of winners of the World Series Of Poker Main Event satellite tournaments (who automatically win a spot in the main event), all remaining players (including former champions, celebrities, and professional poker players) must supply the $10,000 buy-in in order to participate.

[edit] Main Event results

Below are the past winners of the main event, together with brief information about each year's main event. For more information, view the article on the WSOP for that specific year.

Year	Winner	Winning hand	Prize (US$)	Entrants	Runner-Up	Losing hand
1970	Johnny Moss	n/a, awarded by vote	n/a	7	n/a
1971	Johnny Moss		30,000sm=n	6	Walter "Puggy" Pearson
1972	"Amarillo Slim" Preston	K  J	80,000sm=n	8	Walter "Puggy" Pearson	6  6
1973	Walter "Puggy" Pearson	A♠ 7♠	130,000sm=n	13	Johnny Moss	K♥ J♠
1974	Johnny Moss	3♥ 3♠	160,000sm=n	16	Crandall Addington	A♣ 2♣
1975	Brian "Sailor" Roberts	9♠ 9♥	210,000sm=n	21	Bob Hooks	A♣ K♦
1976	Doyle Brunson	10♠ 2♠	220,000sm=n	22	Jesse Alto	A♠ J♦
1977	Doyle Brunson	10♠ 2♥	340,000sm=n	34	Gary Berland	8♥ 5♣
1978	Bobby Baldwin	Q♦ Q♣	210,000sm=n	42	Crandall Addington	9♦ 9♣
1979	Hal Fowler	7♠ 6♦	270,000sm=n	54	Bobby Hoff	A♣ A♥
1980	Stu Ungar	5♠ 4♠	385,000sm=n	73	Doyle Brunson	A♥ 7♠
1981	Stu Ungar	A♥ Q♥	375,000sm=n	75	Perry Green	10♣ 9♦
1982	Jack Straus	A♥ 10♠	520,000sm=n	104	Dewey Tomko	A♦ 4♦
1983	Tom McEvoy	Q♦ Q♠	540,000sm=n	108	Rod Peate	K♦ J♦
1984	Jack Keller	10♥ 10♠	660,000sm=n	132	Byron Wolford	6♥ 4♥
1985	Bill Smith	3♠ 3♥	700,000sm=n	140	T. J. Cloutier	A♦ 3♣
1986	Berry Johnston	A♠ 10♥	570,000sm=n	141	Mike Harthcock	A♦ 8♦
1987	Johnny Chan	A♠ 9♣	625,000sm=n	152	Frank Henderson	4♦ 4♣
1988	Johnny Chan	J♣ 9♣	700,000sm=n	167	Erik Seidel	Q♣ 7♥
1989	Phil Hellmuth Jr	9♠ 9♣	755,000sm=n	178	Johnny Chan	A♠ 7♠
1990	Mansour Matloubi	6♥ 6♠	895,000sm=n	194	Hans Lund	4♦ 4♣
1991	Brad Daugherty	K♠ J♠	1,000,000sm=n	215	Don Holt	7♥ 3♥
1992	Hamid Dastmalchi	8♥ 4♣	1,000,000sm=n	201	Tom Jacobs	J♦ 7♠
1993	Jim Bechtel	J♣ 6♥	1,000,000sm=n	220	Glenn Cozen	7♠ 4♦
1994	Russ Hamilton	K♠ 8♥	1,000,000sm=n	268	Hugh Vincent	8♣ 5♥
1995	Dan Harrington	9♦ 8♦	1,000,000sm=n	273	Howard Goldfarb	A♥ 7♣
1996	Huck Seed	9♦ 8♦	1,000,000sm=n	295	Bruce Van Horn	K♣ 8♣
1997	Stu Ungar	A♥ 4♣	1,000,000sm=n	312	John Strzemp	A♠ 8♣
1998	Scotty Nguyen	J♦ 9♣	1,000,000sm=n	350	Kevin McBride	Q♥ 10♥
1999	Noel Furlong	5♣ 5♦	1,000,000sm=n	393	Alan Goehring	6♥ 6♣
2000	Chris Ferguson	A♠ 9♣	1,500,000sm=n	512	T. J. Cloutier	A♦ Q♣
2001	Juan Carlos Mortensen	K♣ Q♣	1,500,000sm=n	613	Dewey Tomko	A♠ A♥
2002	Robert Varkonyi	Q♦ 10♠	2,000,000sm=n	631	Julian Gardner	J♣ 8♣
2003	Chris Moneymaker	5♦ 4♠	2,500,000sm=n	839	Sam Farha	J♥ 10♦
2004	Greg Raymer	8♠ 8♦	5,000,000sm=n	2,576	David Williams	A♥ 4♠
2005	Joe Hachem	7♣ 3♠	7,500,000sm=n	5,619	Steve Dannenmann	A♦ 3♣
2006	Jamie Gold	Q♠ 9♣	12,000,000sm=n	8,773	Paul Wasicka	10♥ 10♠
2007	Jerry Yang	8♦ 8♣	8,250,000sm=n	6,358	Tuan Lam	A♦ Q♦
2008	Peter Eastgate	A♦ 5♠	9,152,416sm=n	6,844	Ivan Demidov	4♥ 2♥

[edit] Player of the Year

Since 2004, a Player of the Year Award has been given to the player with the most points accumulated throughout the World Series. Only "open" events in which all players can participate count in the standings. Beginning with the 2006 World Series of Poker, the Main Event and the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. competition had no effect on the outcome of the winner of the Player of the Year award. However, in the 2008 World Series of Poker, the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event counted toward the Player of the Year award.

Year	Winner	Bracelets	Final Tables	Money Finishes
2004	Daniel Negreanu	1	5	6
2005	Allen Cunningham	1	4	5
2006	Jeff Madsen	2	4	4
2007	Tom Schneider	2	3	3
2008	Erick Lindgren	1	3	5

[edit] Marketing

The WSOP has corporate sponsors and licensed products which pay fees to market themselves as an official sponsors and/or licensees and exclusively use the WSOP insignia and cross-promote with their events. Besides the Harrah's properties and ESPN, major sponsors have included Miller Brewing's "Milwaukee's Best" brand of beers, Pepsi's SoBe Adrenaline Rush energy drink (sponsors of the 2005 TOC), Helene Curtis' Degree brand of anti-perspirant/deodorant, United States Playing Card's Bicycle Pro Cards, Bluff magazine, GlaxoSmithKline/Bayer's Levitra erectile dysfunction medicine, and The Hershey Company. Licensees include Glu Mobile, Activision (video games for different platforms such as Nintendo's GameCube, Microsoft's Xbox, Sony's PlayStation 2 and PC featuring computer generated versions of stars like Ferguson among others), and products made by different companies ranging from chip sets, playing cards, hand held games and clothing like caps and shirts. The official playing cards and chips are manufactured by Excalibur Electronics, Inc. which is based out of Miami, Florida and has been the main chip licensee since 2005. The fees and licenses bring in more than a million dollars to Harrah's.

[edit] WSOP television coverage

[edit] 1970s-1980s

The earliest filming of the World Series was a special produced by Binion's Horseshoe in 1973 and narrated by Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder. CBS began covering the World Series in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s, the event was again broadcast as specials. In the late 1980s, the World Series returned to television as ESPN took over broadcasting. Initially, coverage consisted of just a single one hour taped delay broadcast of the main event.

[edit] 1990s

ESPN Classic currently airs many of the old broadcasts, especially from the mid 1990s and beyond. The most striking thing about the early coverage is how little was actually shown, since no "pocket cam" existed. Generally, ESPN used poker-playing actors such as Dick Van Patten, Vince Van Patten, and Gabe Kaplan, with either the tournament director (usually Jim Albrecht) or a poker pro like Phil Hellmuth joining the team. Early coverage was relatively primitive compared to what ESPN does now, with no pre-taped interviews or profiles on the players. The commentators were actually on the casino floor itself. The 2002 WSOP was the first with the "sneak peek" (later called the pocket cam, or hole cam). 2003 was the first year that the broadcast covered action preceding the final table.

Since then, ESPN has greatly expanded its coverage to include many of the preliminary events of the WSOP, especially Texas Hold 'Em. Also, their coverage of the main event now typically includes at least one hour program on each day. For the first two years of its existence, ESPN was broadcasting one hour programs of the "circuit" events that the WSOP has at various Harrah's-owned casinos, but ESPN did not renew these events. ESPN's coverage now includes many of the trappings of sports coverage, such as lighter segments (called "The Nuts") and interviews.

ESPN's coverage has been largely driven by Matt Maranz, Executive Producer for the WSOP telecasts. Maranz leads 441 Productions, which produces the telecast under contract to ESPN's unit ESPN Original Entertainment (EOE). Maranz has significant sports production experience, having previously worked on ESPN's football pre-game show, and has also produced taped segments for NBC's Olympic coverage.

[edit] 2000s

In 2000 and 2001, the World Series of Poker was broadcast by The Discovery Channel. These hour long programs presented more of an overview or recap of the WSOP as opposed to broadcasting an actual live event with play-by-play analysis and color commentary. The Discovery Channel's broadcast also featured final table players interviews interlaced throughout the show. ESPN would resume coverage the following year.

ESPN's coverage in 2002 was typical of their coverage in the 1990s (recorded in video, little or no post-production commentary or player profiles, no card cams). However, the final table broadcast was expanded over two one-hour episodes.

In 2003, ESPN expanded their coverage to new heights with their coverage of the WSOP. They included coverage of the entire tournament, with a "Featured Table". At this table, the viewers could see the player's hole cards and subsequent strategy. The action was also broadcast as if live, though on tape-delay. This level of coverage arguably led to the popularity boom of No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em.

Coverage would increase in 2004 and 2005 to include preliminary events from the WSOP, in addition to the "Main Event".

ESPN has expanded poker to all-new levels, especially with their coverage of the 2006 WSOP, including providing the entire final table of the 2006 Main Event via pay-per-view airing.

In 2008, ESPN experimented with the idea of a delayed final table. This idea presented greater sponsorship opportunities and notoriety, culminating in a recap of the Main Event and the conclusion of the 2008 Main Event final table. This year's Main Event champion was Peter Eastgate.

In 2009, ESPN announced they will keep the final table delay again, moving the final table to November 2009. The intent is to build up anticipation for the year's biggest poker event. The WSOP has also decided there will be no re-buy events in 2009. The decision was reached because of circuit rumblings that re-buy events provided an unfair advantage to professionals with no limitation on how much money they can spend for an event. There will be 57 bracelet events this year.

[edit] WSOP broadcasters

1973 (special) - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1978 (CBS) - Brent Musburger and Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1979 (CBS) - Frank Glieber and Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder 1981 (special) - Curt Gowdy 1983 (special) - Curt Gowdy and Bobby Baldwin 1987 (special) - Ted Robinson 1988 (ESPN) - Chris Marlowe 1989 (ESPN) - Chris Marlowe 1990 (ESPN) - Chris Marlowe 1991 (ESPN) - Chris Marlowe 1992 (ESPN) - Chris Marlowe 1993 (ESPN) - Dick Van Patten and Jim Albrecht 1994 (ESPN) - Dick Van Patten and Jim Albrecht 1995 (ESPN) - Dick Van Patten and Jim Albrecht 1996 - Was not televised 1997 (ESPN) - Gabe Kaplan and Jim Albrecht 1998 (ESPN) - Vince Van Patten and Jim Albrecht 2000 (The Discovery Channel) 2001 (The Discovery Channel)

2002 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Gabe Kaplan; (ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill 2003 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; (ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill 2004 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; (ESPN Deportes/ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill 2005 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; (ESPN Deportes/ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill and Andrés Agulla 2006 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; Phil Gordon and Ali Nejad in Main Event Pay-per-view; (ESPN Deportes/ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill and Andrés Agulla 2007 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; Phil Gordon and Ali Nejad in Main Event Pay-per-view; (ESPN Deportes/ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill and Fernando Álvarez 2008 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; (ESPN Deportes/ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Gabriela Hill and Fernando Álvarez 2009 (ESPN) - Lon McEachern and Norman Chad; (ESPN Deportes/ESPN Latin America - Spanish) - Fernando Álvarez and Georgina Ruizsandoval

[edit] World Series of Poker Europe

The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion of the World Series of Poker. Since 1970, the event has occurred every year in Las Vegas. In September 2007, the first WSOP championship events outside of Las Vegas, complete with bracelets, were held.^[8] The inaugural WSOPE consisted of three events held in London from September 6-17, 2007. The main event, a GBP 10,000 buy-in no-limit hold 'em tournament, was won by Norwegian online prodigy Annette Obrestad on the day before her 19th birthday. This made her the youngest person ever to win a WSOP bracelet, a record that cannot be broken in the Las Vegas WSOP under current laws because the minimum legal age for casino gaming in Nevada is 21. Obrestad could play in the WSOPE because the minimum age for casino gaming in the United Kingdom is 18.

While no definitive plans have been announced, WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack has indicated that in the next one to three years that other venues may start holding WSOP events.^{[citation needed]} Two locations that have been mentioned as possible expansion sites are Egypt and South Africa.^[9]

[edit] Other information

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (January 2009)

In 2005, a video game based on the tournament, titled World Series of Poker, was released for several consoles and the computer. A sequel called World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions came out in 2006. In 2007, World Series of Poker: Battle for the Bracelets was released.

WSOP video poker machines now appear at some Harrah's casinos; the machines are standard video poker machines, but have a bonus feature which allows a player to play a modified game of Texas Hold 'em against the machine.^[10]

Beginning in 2007, Harrah's announced the creation of the World Series of Poker Academy, a poker school aimed at providing poker players with the skills needed to win a WSOP Bracelet. The instructors for the Academy include Phil Hellmuth, Greg Raymer, Scott Fischman and Mark Seif. Initial academies were launched in Tunica, Indiana and Las Vegas.

[edit] See also

• List of World Series of Poker ladies champions

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• Official site
• Yahoo Directory: World Series of Poker
• Commentary on numerous final hands at the WSOP main event from launchpoker.com

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