Tuesday, January 24, 2012

WSOP Tournaments: Battle Of The Sharpest Minds

Back in the indistinct days of gambling, players were playing poker just for fun and pure entertainment. Money is not that a big issue and people enjoy this game as their past time. 

However, when Lester “Benny” Binion, owner of Horseshoe Casino had an idea of making a battle between Moss and the Greek in 1970, he invited the most prominent poker players that he know and open the first official World Series Of Poker tournament in Las Vegas. And the face of poker changed when the clash of the sharpest minds in began. That was also the time when the biggest names of poker arose and made histories with their own styles of playing, and unpredictable theories which nowadays became a great foundation used by almost all players around the world. 

That was also the time when the WSOP tournament became so popular and continued to produce world-class players such as Doyle Brunson, Jhonny Moss, Brian “Sailor” Roberts, and many more. In online casino world, the tournament was still the outstanding among other online poker tournaments because of it's great foundation.