In 1970, the WSOP as the world knows it was born, well sort of. After confirming with Moore and Vickery that they didn’t plan to hold another reunion, Binion got their blessing to take the show south. The idea for the WSOP was planted in 1969 when Tom Moore and Vic Vickrey invited the best players in the world to the Holiday Casino in Reno, Nevada for the Texas Gamblers Reunion.Īt the time, only cash games were played, and as Benny Binion, owner of Binion’s Horseshoe, observed the action, he had an idea – to hold an annual event at his joint in Las Vegas. There’s a reason the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the most prestigious name in the game – because of its history.įor more than three decades before the “Poker Boom” years of the mid-2000s, the WSOP was the place to go for poker players.
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