WSOP tournament will start on May 27th (wsop.com) and with anticipation I decided to watch one of my favorite movies, Rounders. Rounders is a film that came out in the late 90's that focused on Texas Hold' em and underground high stakes gambling. This film really helped launch the game into the phenomena it is today. In the 90's the player field, tournaments, and opportunity was limited.


Today players can focus online or live tournaments and play throughout the world having an interesting career opportunity while traveling. Unfortunately, there has not been many movies focused on poker (or at least worth mentioning) and I personally would be interested in another film like this. There have been documentaries over the past few years which have been relatively good and some are worth a watch.

Last year at the WSOP Las Vegas events alone there were 65 winners taking home large sums of money(wsop.com) The main event had an enormous turnout which continues to grow year after year, last year 6,352 players showed up for the 10k buy in. The main event winner Ryan Riess took home a whopping $8.3mil with multiple other individuals becoming new or expanding on their millions. In the 90's a main even winner would take home around $2million dollars with maybe a 1/10 of the player field.

Any player that would like to win a trip can do so on various other online websites but can also play through Facebook sponsored games or wsop.com online poker.




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