{"id":9655,"date":"2019-07-02T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/?p=9655"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:04:09","slug":"players-awarded-at-the-wsop-first-fifty-honors-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinepokeramerica.com\/news\/players-awarded-at-the-wsop-first-fifty-honors-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Players Awarded at the WSOP First Fifty Honors Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Late last month, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced that they would be playing host to an event that would be honoring the top 50 poker players as part of the 50th-anniversary celebrations<\/a>. The event that the poker operator would be hosting would be referred as the WSOP First Fifty Honors Gala and the first one went down on June 29 at 8.00 p.m. and it included dinner as well as an award presentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This WSOP First Fifty Honors<\/a> celebration included a total of seven categories with both the public and the poker players themselves being given the opportunity to submit their votes. Participating in the voting process, as it turns out, was also a rewarding experience as whoever voted was automatically entered into a drawing that awards some very lucrative prizes. These prizes included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n