The World Series of Poker has been
around since 1970, Before the Television networks like ESPN
started showing Poker tournaments for the Public, names like
three time champions, Johhny Moss and Stu Ungar were household
names in poker talk, but to your average sports bettor or online
casino player they were virtual unknowns.
This all changed in 2003, when an unknown named Chris Moneymaker
defied all the odds to win the championship and the $2.5 million
prize. Moneymaker qualified to play in the World Series of Poker
on the internet. That showed the public that truly anyone can
win the event.
To show the effect of the Moneymaker's win, in 2003 they were
839 people who laid down the $10,000 entry fee for the main
event. That number tripled in 2004 to 2,576 people.
The 2004 prize pool this year was $24.2 million, the biggest
prize in sports according to the organizers. The main event was
won by Greg "Fossilman" Raymer unknown from the internet world.
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer emerged from a field of 2,576 entrants
with the $5 million prize and then quickly quit his job as a
patent attorney. He is now traveling around to different poker
tournaments to prove that he is not a one year wonder.
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players completed dominated this year's tournament and
will have to be respected from now on.
4 of the final 9 players qualified online, including the
winner Greg Raymer and the runner-up as well. Greg Raymer wielded it like a Flintstones club, knocking down
opponent after opponent. He saved his greatest drubbing
for the end, beating David Anthony Williams in an epic
showdown Friday night, seven hours after the finale
began. |
Greg "Fossilman" Raymer
snagged the top prize of $5 million. |
In head-to-head play, Raymer had a
stack worth $17.1 million compared with the $8.2 million owned
by Williams. On the seventh hand, Williams pushed all his chips
into the pot and Raymer matched him.
Both had full houses, but Raymer had eights over twos, while
Williams had fours over twos. Williams, a 23-year-old Dallas
college student, busted out.
Raymer, 39, whose nickname comes from his hobby of collecting
fossils, snagged the top prize of $5 million and Williams earned
$3.5 million for second place.
Both Raymer and Williams qualified playing in satellite
tournaments on the Internet, picking up where last year's champ
Chris Moneymaker left off. Moneymaker, who won $2.5 million in
2003,
lost on the event's first day.
Oddsmakers favor poker superstars Phil Ivey and Daniel Negreanu
at 200/1. They are followed by top players Phil Hellmuth, Howard
Lederer, Gus Hansen, Chris Ferguson and Erick Lindgren at 225/1.
Gamblerspalace.com offers the most
comprehensive and up-to-date WSOP Odds and Lines.
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