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In 2024, the record-breaking attendance of a year earlier was put in the shadows as the biggest Main Event ever to play finished amid post-final controversy in Las Vegas. With a record 99 bracelet events on the felt in Las Vegas, Nevada, it was a stunning series for big names, new faces and everyone in […]

In 2023, the World Series of Poker crowned a new champion who won the biggest-ever top prize in WSOP history. With a record-breaking crowd, more events than ever before, and a WSOP Player of the Year battle for the ages, the 2023 World Series of Poker was a classic. Las Vegas, Nevada, was once again […]

After a period of flux around the poker world, the 2022 World Series of Poker’s move to the Las Vegas strip saw poker return to its natural home. In 2021, Koray Aldemir won the biggest title in poker, as the delayed WSOP Main Event took place in the Autumn. Just six months later, Aldemir’s reign […]

In the history of poker, the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) may one day become known as the most miraculous of poker festivals ever to take place. In the year after the COVID-19 pandemic rocked the entire world, poker’s resurgence was nothing short of sensational. The poker community reacted heroically to first pivot to […]

In 2020, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) hoped to follow up on the immense success of the 2019 WSOP by welcoming even more than the 8,569 players it did the previous year. However, fate would put a stop to that grandest of plans. While the early part of 2019 was spent ramping up preparations […]

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 […]