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 Online Poker
When Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson won it in 2000 he beat 511 players and by 2003 Chris Moneymaker was up against 838 players. In 2004 that figure had tripled to 2,576 and more then doubled to 5,619 in 2005. The number of entries for the 2006 WSOP was capped at 8,000 giving an estimated 10 million purse to the winner which is unmatched in any other sport with the exception of boxing. In a Poker Britain Report it is reported that thirteen million adults have played online poker in one form or another and a further 2.9 million have are interested in the game. In a country with a population of 60 million this is an extremely large percentage. Online Poker has become very profitable at the larger and well established poker rooms and the competition is heating up, which is good news for you the player. The best sites are giving more and more value to the players with higher and better bonuses and promotions. Many new players start out by playing poker against players from all over the world and then move on to play games at the brick and morar rooms, but the purses currently being generated by on the internet are substantial and may well soon catch up to the 10 million WSOP stakes  |
The WSOP story starts on 1970 when there were only six entrants and has risen steadily since.
