the history of the world series of poker

The main event of the World Series of Poker is going on as we speak, and there are some 6500 entrants, each of whom put up $10,000 to play. This is a huge amount, and first place will be over $9.1 million. However, though the stakes at the WSOP have always been high, it began as a much smaller tournament of Texas road gamblers.

Since the World Series events began this year, CardPlayer.com has had articles on the history of the WSOP, one concerning each year of the event. If anyone is interested in checking these articles out, they can be found at:

http://www.cardplayer.com/poker-news/article/4607/wsop-history-1997-recap

They're on 1997 right now, but at the bottom of the page you can find all the previous articles, back to 1970 (and a "preludes" article as well). They're pretty informative for those interested in that sort of thing.