Tag: Binion’s Horseshoe
English players John McGrane (18th for $350,000) and Tiffany Williamson, the last woman standing (15th for $400,000), bowed out before Northern Ireland’s Conor Tate finished 12th for $600,000. As the nine-handed final table began, there was another player from those shores, as the Republic of Ireland’s Andy Black, while not British, came with just as […]
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 […]
A year after Jesus rose through the field and attained immortality at the poker felt, the 2001 World Series of Poker took place. Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, like most of the WSOP Main Event champions, won only one world championship – in the year 2000 – but the popularity of the event he took down for […]
As poker began a new millennium, there were major changes afoot at the World Series of Poker. From just 16 events in 1999, there were 25 tournaments in 2000 where players could win the most prized trophy in poker – the gold WSOP bracelet given to each event’s winner. In the Main Event, there was […]
The Story of the 1999 WSOP Main Event In 1999, the final year of the millennium saw a first-time winner from Europe create poker history in Las Vegas. The 30th Annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) welcomed a record field of 393 entries in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. With two Irish players reaching the […]
The Story of the 1998 WSOP Main Event In 1998, the loss of one champion away from the felt was offset by the emergence of a new personality that would invigorate poker. The World Series of Poker descended on Las Vegas once more as Binion’s Horseshoe played host to a record field of 350 WSOP […]
The Story of the 1997 WSOP Main Event The 28th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, as it always does, but it was like no other WSOP before or since. The winner went down in history as the most tragic player ever to take home the world title as […]
