$10,000 Pro-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo Championship<\/a>. His victory brought him $567,788 in ready money. <\/p>\nAnother noteworthy achievement was that of Jean-Robert Bellande who walked away from the $5,000 No-Limit Hold\u2019em Six-max with $616,302 in prize money. Mr Bellande had to defeat a number of contenders, well over 621 players. <\/p>\n
More noteworthy victories followed, including Chance Kornuth who joined the $3,200 Online High Roller Event, defeating 480 people on his way to victory and clinching the juicy final pot worth $342,000. <\/p>\n
More interesting plays transpired from Calvin Anderson who competed at the $10,000 Razz Championship, handling 120-odd opponents and coming out victorious with $309,000 to his name, an achievement that certainly didn\u2019t cost him that much.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere throughout the event, people continued to compete with Scott Seiver managing a win during the $10,000 Limit Hold\u2019em Championship. Meanwhile, one of the most massive events had Jeremy Perrin managing a victory in the $365 GiANT No-Limit Hold\u2019em for $250,966. <\/p>\n
It has most certainly been interesting to behold the largest poker pow-wow take off in earnest. Of course, the action is not nearly over yet ad we can expect more stellar plays from the pros \u2013 established and aspiring.<\/p>\n
The main events always come along with sufficient buzz and excitement along with them. The multiple competitions that take place during the meeting of pros keep people excited and show the beauty of the game and also help consolidate movements for the liberalization of the market, which may indeed see better times with the legal let-up that many states are now conceding. <\/p>\n
The Future of (Online) Poker<\/h2>\n While it\u2019s true that so far only a handful of poker operations have been launched in the country, the WSOP-backed event<\/a> is one of the mainstays of the industry. With other organizations, such as Global Poker, and the Poker Alliance making a strong push towards the liberalization of the entire market. Certainly, much remains undecided, but we can all revel content in the knowledge that things are finally changing for the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event has caused a decent buzz for its 2018 edition. The number of entrants was quite significant, too, with 7,784 people signing in for the event. It has been the second-largest attendance rate on record since 2006, ad it constituted a modest, and yet respectable, 9{c118e36310c7bc75bef8f724f80ee0a52cfaf44be22f7e80906142f4c81518da} uptick. The […]","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[61,210,482,599],"class_list":["post-7882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headline","tag-bellande","tag-glafond","tag-seiver","tag-wsop-main-event"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWSOP Main Event Second-Highest Attendance - Online Poker America News<\/title>\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n \n \n \n\t \n\t \n\t \n