What started out with just six players in 1970 has turned into the game’s grandest spectacle, with more than 70,000 entrants competing for more than $180,000,000 in prize money in front of ESPN cameras for poker’s most prized possession – a WSOP bracelet. Continue reading
In the 1937 edition of Foster’s Complete Hoyle, R. F. Foster wrote: “the game of poker, as first played in the United States, five cards to each player from a twenty-card pack, is undoubtedly the Persian game of as nas.” Continue reading
Poker has gained in popularity since the beginning of the 20th Century, and has gone from being primarily a recreational activity confined to small groups of mostly male enthusiasts, to a widely popular spectator activity with international audiences and multi-million dollar tournament prizes, with women being a constantly growing part of that audience.