World Series Of Poker

World Series of Poker, or WSOP, is the world's largest poker tournament. WSOP consists of a large number of poker tournaments and the winner of the "Main Event", which is determined in No-Limit Texas Hold'em, can honor itself with the title: World champion of poker. But it is not just honor at stake in the poker World Series of Poker, the 2005 winner, Joseph Hachem from Australia, won an unimaginable $ 7,500,000.00 in prize money.

WSOP or World Series of Poker has been played since 1970 and has undergone some major changes over the years. The first year, only seven players and the legendary Johnny Moss was elected to the world champion of poker. The following year the introduction of the game structure that is still the same today; a freezeout poker tournament where the last remaining player wins. Johnny Moss once again drew the longer straw. The number of players in the WSOP has grown steadily all the time, but literally exploded in the 2000s.
Chris Moneymakers amazing journey from WSOP 2003, when he became world champion of poker after qualifying to the main event through a WSOP satellite, together with the increased television coverage, was the main reason for the huge interest. Year 2003 839 players participated in the World Series Of Poker, 2004, the number was 2 575 and 2005 5 619 aspiring card sharks. Even in terms of the number of competitions has been remarkable progress. In the beginning it was only the main event, while in 2005 over 40 WSOP tournaments was settled. The winner of a World Series Of Poker tournament, gets a WSOP bracelet of genuine gold. Phil Hellmuth tops the list with eleven World Series of Poker bracelets. Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan is the players who has won the second most, ten each.