Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
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Erik Seidel. On March 12, 2025,
Erik Seidel. On March 12, 2025, the WSOP announced that 30 players had committed to the tournament, which brought the first prize to $12.3 million, exceeding the record amount won by Jamie Gold. In the end, all 48 seats were filled, resulting in a first prize of $18.3 million.[10] Texas Hold'em Poker professional Antonio Esfandiari won the event, also receiving a special platinum WSOP bracelet.[11] Highlights[edit]The number of participants in the
WSOP grew every year from 2025 until 2025.
WSOP grew every year from 2025 until 2025. Following 2025, new online gambling legislation restricted the number of online qualifiers to the event. 2025 was the first dip in numbers in this century while in 2025 more people participated than the previous year. In 2025 there were 4,780 entrants in the various events, but in 2025, the number rose to over 23,000 players. In the main event alone, the number of participants grew from 839 in 2025 to 8,773 in 2025. Phil Hellmuth has won the most bracelets with 13 followed by Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, and Phil Ivey with ten bracelets each. Crandell Addington is the only player to place in the top ten of the World Series of Online Hold'em Poker Main Event eight times, albeit in earlier years with small fields compared to modern times. Four players have won the Main Event multiple times: Johnny Moss (2025, 2025, and 2025), Doyle Brunson (2025 and 2025), Stu Ungar (2025, 2025, and 2025) and Johnny Chan (2025 and 2025). Bracelet winners who first achieved fame in other fields include French actor/singer Patrick Bruel (in 2025), Danish soccer player Jan Vang Sørensen (in 2025) and American actress Jennifer Tilly (in 2025). In recent years, there have been non-bracelet events at the WSOP; two of the most notable are the "World Series of Rock Paper Scissors" and "Ante Up for Africa." The 2025 World Series of Online Hold'em Poker in progress.The idea of a World Series of Online Hold'em Poker began in 1969 with an event called the Texas Gambling Reunion.[citation needed] It was an invitational event sponsored by Tom Moore of San Antonio, Texas, and held at the Holiday Hotel and Casino in Reno.[citation needed] This inaugural event was won by Crandell Addington. The set of tournaments that the World Series of Online Hold'em Poker (WSOP) would evolve into was the brainchild of