Posted by Jed Lewison on Mon Jul 2, 2007 at 6:04 PM Pacific

Now that's a lot of poker

The 51st event of the 38th annual World Series of Poker began yesterday. The big one -- the $10k World Championship -- begins next Friday. It will dish out the 55th bracelet of this year's WSOP.

To get an idea of how many bracelets that is, it took 9 years until the WSOP gave out its 55th bracelet overall. Now they banging out 55 per year. It took them another 5 years to put out 55 more.

Gotta' love progress, eh?

p.s.: I'll bet the total rake on any single event during this year's WSOP exceeds the entire rake collected at Binion's Horseshoe for at least the WSOP's first 15 years.

Now that's a lot of poker

The 51st event of the 38th annual World Series of Poker began yesterday. The big one -- the $10k World Championship -- begins next Friday. It will dish out the 55th bracelet of this year's WSOP.

To get an idea of how many bracelets that is, it took 9 years until the WSOP gave out its 55th bracelet overall. Now they banging out 55 per year. It took them another 5 years to put out 55 more.

Gotta' love progress, eh?

p.s.: I'll bet the total rake on any single event during this year's WSOP exceeds the entire rake collected at Binion's Horseshoe for at least the WSOP's first 15 years.

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