by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jul 03, '08

Thanks again to more than half of the participants coming from satellites; the main event grew to 273 players at the 1995 World Series of Poker. Also added that year were two Chinese poker tournaments that took the number of preliminary events to 23. Some established legends of the game, as well as a number […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jun 30, '08

The preliminary events at the 1993 World Series of Poker were once again dominated by professional players. Three of those pros even won multiple bracelets: Phil Hellmuth won three bracelets ($1,500 no-limit hold’em, $2,500 no-limit hold’em, and $5,000 limit hold’em), Ted Forrest also won three ($1,500 razz, $1,500 Omaha eight-or-better, and $5,000 seven-card stud), while […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jun 29, '08

The United States economy was in a recession in 1992, and because of that the main event field shrunk for the first time in its history (the second time came in 2007). There were 14 less players in the world championship field in 1992 than there had been in 1991, taking the total number down […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jun 23, '08

A strange thing happened at the World Series of Poker in 1986. For the first time in its history the first-place prize of the main event shrunk from one year to the next (this has only happened again one other time, between 2006 and 2007). The field in the main event only grew by one […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jun 21, '08

The World Series of Poker in 1985 featured one of the first prolonged money bubbles in the history of the tournament. Any one of the final ten players refused to go silently into the night and money-bubble action went on for five hours. Part of the reason these players dug in so much on that […]

by Craig Tapscott | Published: Sep 28, '23

Hamid Izadi is originally from Iran. He moved to the United States in 1998 and has been living in Marietta, Georgia ever since. Izadi first started playing poker with cash games in 2006, mostly at local home games. Then in 2010 he started playing the occasional tournament, always working to improve his game and fix […]

by Erik Fast | Published: May 24, '23

The World Series of Poker started as a seven-player cash game in 1970, with eventual champion Johnny Moss decided by a vote among the participants. In the more than five decades since then, the annual WSOP has grown into the largest poker tournament festival in the world, with a record $342 million paid out across […]

by Mike Sexton | Published: Oct 15, '20

Editor’s Note: The following excerpt is from Mike Sexton’s Inside Professional Poker column, originally published Feb. 21, 1997 in Vol. 10, Issue No. 4 of Card Player Magazine. What a difference a tournament makes. At the Queens Classic in September, I experienced the thrill of victory by winning the $5,000 no-limit hold’em championship event. However, […]

by Steve Schult | Published: May 12, '20

Boris Kasabov broke through to win his first World Series of Poker Circuit ring in December after nearly six years as a regular in the mid-stakes tournament world. He defeated a 281-entry field in the $1,700 no-limit hold’em main event at the IP Biloxi, earning $98,044 in the process. The Houston native is a regular […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Aug 12, '19

After two weeks of action in poker’s most prestigious tournament, the $10,000 buy-in main event of the 2019 World Series of Poker has come to a close with German poker pro Hossein Ensan securing the title, the bracelet, and the massive $10 million first-place prize. “I am so happy I am here with bracelet in hand,” Ensan said in […]