WSOP Qualifiers Start Small for a Shot at Big Time

Satellite Into this Year’s Main Event for Under $30 Last year’s $10,000 buy-in World Series of Poker main event attracted a field of 8,773 and hundreds of them qualified through online satellites for what less …
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Fri, March 16th, 2007

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Interesting gambling information:

  • The first World Series of Poker was held in downtown Las Vegas at the Horseshoe Casino back in 1970. Then owner of the Horseshoe Jack Binion, hosted the very first one and has agreed to host upcoming World Series of Poker Tournament Circuit. Jack Binion said that is purely honorary and plans on doing other types deals and events in the future.
  • Video Poker machines were introduced in the 1970s, when an oil embargo had a negative impact on Vegas revenues. The machines were popular enough to spark a recovery in casino business.
  • Casino is defined by the Webster's New World Dictionary as the following: a small country house, or a building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, gaming, or a game at cards.
  • In 1973, the Commission on the Review of National Policy toward Gambling was created to study gambling in the United States.