WSOP is here! OK not the main event yet but it’s a coming!

Hi Everyone!

All you hear about now is WSOP this and that, WSOP packages given out left right and centre and all things to do with WSOP.  

It’s all nice and interesting but I wanted to share some little known facts and some general facts about WSOP and Poker. Here they are:

Fact #1: A fifth suit was added in 1937. As you can tell this did not catch on. It was mostly because people would have to buy new decks. This fifth suit was called: Eagle, Green Suit or Royal in England. It was green in colour

Fact #2: Thanks to French influence the suits have actual connotations to classes of people. The Diamond is said to symbolize merchants, the Spade Royalty, the Club symbolizes peasants and the Heart the clergy.

Fact #3: The Main Even in the WSOP has been a $10,000 buy-in no limit Texas Hold’Em tournament since 1972.

Fact #4: The WSOP was first televised in 1973.

Fact #5: The WSOP was founded in 1970. Benny Binion invited 6 of the best poker players to the Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas.

Fact #6: Doyle Brunson won the Main Even consecutively in 1976 and 1977 with the same hand! That hand is the 10-2

Fact #7: Tod Brunson won a bracelet at the 2005 WSOP. This made him and Doyle the first father-son combination to win Series Bracelets.

Fact #8: In 1973 Benny Binion speculated that one day the WSOP would have 50 participants!

Fact #9: There are 2,598,960 possible poker hands with 52 cards.

Fact #10: Each of the kings in a deck of cards represents a great kind in history: Spades: King David, Hearts: Charlemagne, Clubs: Alexander the Great and Diamonds Julius Caesar

Alex

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