With six of the November nine busting out the previous Sunday, the WSOP main event title was up for grabs Tuesday night airing on ESPN. The six players to exit Sunday and their respective winnings are: 4th Matt Giannetti $3,011,655 5th Phil Collins $2,268,909 6th Eoghan O’Dea $1,720,396 7th Badih Bounahra $1,313,851 8th Anton Makiievskyi [...]
The final nine players who will make up the 2011 WSOP main event final table have emerged from a field of 6,865 players. The chip leader, Martin Staszko (40.1 million in chips) — A professional poker player for about one year, is 35 years old and admits that he plays much more online than live. [...]
The final nine players who will make up the 2010 WSOP main event final table have emerged from a field of 7,319 players who began play back on July 5. The chip leader, Jonathan Duhamel (65.9 million in chips) is a 22-year-old from Montreal who finished 10th last December in EPT Prague. Next is John [...]
The 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) is set to begin on Thursday, May 27, 2010. As every poker fan knows the WSOP is an annual event that began back in 1970. That year, Johnny Moss was awarded the championship by votes of the other players in the event. It became the freeze-out event [...]
10. The year was 1990 and it marked the first year that a non-American won the World Series of Poker championship. What was his name? 11. Who is the only poker player to win a WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelet, a WPT (World Poker Tour) title and an EPT (European Poker Title) event? 12. In [...]
7. In what year did the World Series of Poker (WSOP) add a Ladies World Championship to the poker menu? 8. In 1983, this tournament director is credited with coming up the idea of the poker satellite. What was his name? 9. Who was the first WSOP main event winner to qualify through a satellite? Scroll down [...]
4. In 1973, CBS Sports televised the World Series of Poker for the first time. The WSOP was also expanded for the first time to include four preliminary events. Name them. 5. The World Series of Poker saw many changes in 1978. To start, it was the first year that the main event’s prize money was divided [...]
This is the first poker trivia post in a series of posts dealing directly with World Series of Poker history. (WSOP) Let’s start off with an easy one. 1. Who are the only three time winners of the World Series of Poker main event? 2. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event has had four back to back champions. [...]
