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In 2019, the World Series of Poker Main Event was once again a huge deal. With a top prize of $10 million, the tournament was the biggest in WSOP history, apart from the 2006 World Championship, which was won by Jamie Gold for $12 million. There were an incredible 8,569 in the Main Event itself, […]

After the madness of the November Nine era, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event returned to some sort of sanity in 2017 as Scott Blumstein took home the title. The American was followed up by another home country hero one year later, as the final six players in the World Championship were all […]

In 2017, the World Series of Poker Main Event returned to being the world’s best poker tournament, played out from Day 1 to the final day in the heat of a Las Vegas summer. The November Nine era, where the final table of nine players in the World Championship would delay the denouement until November. […]

One year earlier, Joe McKeehen had won one of the most one-sided WSOP Main Events in history. As impressive as McKeehen’s wire-to-wire victory procession had been, the poker-watching public craved drama. In the final year of the ‘November Nine’ era, they got it. With one of the most controversial years ever on the WSOP, a […]

A year on from Martin Jacobson’s November Nine masterclass came one of the least popular winners in WSOP Main Event history. Along the way, the Brat would run clear of the chasing pack, four players would each bag two bracelets in a year peppered with multiple winners, and perhaps the best-known player in poker would […]

In 2013, the World Series of Poker Main Event was won by an aggressive American player who would go on to become a well-recognized and much-respected member of the poker community. Over the previous few years, winners such as Jonathan Duhamel (2010), Pius Heinz (2011), and Greg Merson (2012) had been successful, even lauded at […]

The World Series of Poker crowned Pius Heinz the champion in 2011. One year later, the trend for positive results by aggressive players continued as the newest world champion charged to victory in Las Vegas. The 2012 World Championship saw a total of 6,598 entrants and awarded just over $8.5 million to the winner as […]

In 2011, the ‘November Nine’ continued as the fourth consecutive winner under the age of 23 conquered the world’s biggest poker tournament, the WSOP Main Event. Also known as the World Championship, the event attracted 6,865 entries and featured German, Czech, Irish, Ukrainian, Belizean, and British poker players, along with three Americans at the final […]

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 […]