World Series

The prestigious live poker series in the world

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the most prestigious live poker series in the world, held every year in Las Vegas. Consisting of a few dozen events held over several weeks, the World Series of Poker tournaments offer players the ultimate challenge thanks to the large number of professional poker greats who attend every year.

While even casual poker fans follow the action of the smaller WSOP tournaments with interest, the general public is really only familiar with the crown jewel of the World Series – the Main Event. With a $10,000 buy-in, it’s not a tournament you enter lightly, and the glory of winning the WSOP Main Event is only outdone by the massive first place prize money. In some events, the winner has taken away as much as $12 million, and the prize has routinely topped $8 million in the last few years.

It has been a long time since anyone has won multiple WSOP Main Events, but a few great champions have managed the feat. One of the earliest to do so was Doyle Brunson, who won the 1976 and 1977 WSOP Main Events – two cherries on top of his current career total of 10 WSOP bracelets. The 10/2 hand is now named after him due to the fact he was holding a 10/2 both times he won the Main Event.

Despite the massive buy-in for the WSOP Main Event, quite a number of individuals do not pony up the full amount to enter. Satellite tournaments into the WSOP Main Event are held at many online poker rooms, including Full Tilt Poker, Bodog Poker, and Doyle’s Room. These give players the chance to win a WSOP Main Event entry by virtue of their poker playing skills – and it can be possible to enter for free by winning a freeroll satellite and climbing up the ranks to a Main Event seat. Satellite tournaments into the WSOP are one of the ways that the Main Event has become much more accessible for regular players, with the tournament now fielding as many as 8,000 participants.

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