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World series poker: This tournament is the sole reason behind the popularity of poker in todays time.World series of poker is a tournament which started in America way back in the year 1968 by Tom Moore in Texas.The first game was played in 1970 and was won by Johnny Moss.And after that it became almost a instant hit among the people around the world.

Some early champions of world series of poker in short WSOP were Amarillo Slim,Bobby baldwin,Doyle Brunson,Puggy Pearson,Johnny Moss.Later on due to the invention of hole-card camera which made the game to appear live on satellite TV channels.And
tournaments like WSOP and world poker tour became immensely popular.
And due to increasing coverage of WSOP in TV channels the poker players became more like celebrities.In the year 2007 the main event was won by Jerry Yang who took home $8,250,000 and became a star after wards.Every year there has been a steady rise in the number of participants like in 2000 there were 4,780 participants and in 2005 there were nearly 23,000.So that speaks of how famous WSOP has become today.The growth can be simply be attributed to the live telecast of these tournaments on ESPN,Travel channel.There are many sponsors for this big event like Pepsi,Bluff magazine and the Hershey Company.

From 2004 there was another award from the usual championship award called Player of the year award and it was given to the player who accumulated the most number of points in the series throughout.It was given to Daniel Negreanu in 2004,to Allen Cunningham in 2005,to Jeff Madsen in 2006 and to Tom Schneider in 2007.This award also make the game a bit more attractive among the players participating there.

We hope in times to come the world series of poker tournament will become much more popular than what it is currently and attract many more players to play.