Las Vegas Vacation Blog Blog

The nine players will return to the Rio in Las Vegas to commence the final table on November 9.  Play will again stop when two players remain.  These two will play the heads-up portion of the tournament on November 10 until one of them is crowned champ.

ESPN production crews will work furiously November 9-11 (the heads-up match may very well not end until the 11th) to put together a two-hour final table program to be aired on the network on November 11 at 9:00pm ET.  This way, poker fans can enjoy “same day” programming of the final table instead of having to wait a few months to see what happened (and probably hear about it in the meantime).

You can go see the action in Vegas live.

• 1972 - Thomas “Amarillo Slim” Preston won the third WSOP event beating Johnny Moss the previous two year’s winner. He took home $80,000. The tournament had only 12 participants.
• 1973 - CBS Sports televised the World Series for the first time.
• 1974 – Johnny Moss beats 15 other players to again win the main event and $160,000
• 1977 - Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson backs up his 1976 win to make it back-to back WSOP wins.
• 1978 – Place prizes were introduced for the first time with the 2nd to 5th finishers of the main event sharing in the prize money for the first time.
• 1989 – Benny Binion, the father of WSOP, passes away this year.
• 1991 – Prize money for first place in the main event tops $1 million for the first time.
• 1997 – Stuey “The Kid” Ungar makes a comeback and wins the main event for the third time after his previous back-to-back wins in 1980 and 1981. And the main event was played outdoors.
• 2003 – Unknown rookie Chris Moneymaker qualifies for the main even by winning his entry to the tournament though an online qualifier, paying only $39 and went on to become the champion winning $2.5 million dollars.
• 2004 – The WSOP was held at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino for the last time, after the Horseshoe was bought by Harrah’s Entertainment.
• 2005 – Johnny “Orient Express” Chan wins his 10th WSOP bracelet setting a new record for the most bracelets won with his victory at the Pot-Limit Omaha event. Four days later, Doyle Brunson also won his 10th WSOP bracelet in the $5,000 No Limit Short Handed event.
• 2006 – College student Jeff Madsen becomes the youngest winner ever of a WSOP event. Aged 21 years, one month, and nine days, he won event #22 taking the $660,948 prize.

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