When the World Series of Poker offered a prize for their main event of one million dollars, the poker world was stunned; no other prize had been offered or was so accessible to the average poker player before. Now they are going to do it again, following a tradition started in 2003 of raising the prize each year, only this time the amount up for grabs is a cool ten million dollars.
When Chris Moneymaker made the news with his out of nowhere win, he picked the right year to do it, with the WSOP prize, which seemed stuck at a million dollars for a number of years, jumping to $2.5 million. Then Greg Raymer took $5 million in 2004 and Joe Hachem took $7.5 million in 2005. |
