# Poker Tournament Breaks Record

The richest sporting event in the world keeps getting rich and champions get rich too.

The winners of this year's World Series Poker World Championship Game, which began on May 22, will leave Vinnon's Horschoux Casino on May 28 with about $4.5 million in cash. But the top winners of the unlimited Texas Hold M event are not the only millionaires that day: based on this year's record participation, the first four winners will each claim $1 million or more. The top 180 winners will receive more than $10,000.

The colossal prize money set a new world record for a poker tournament, with more than $41 million in total. Last year's World Series poker tournament prize money was just under $22 million, and the 2003 world champion Chris Moneymaker received the top prize money of $2.5 million.

And while this year's prize money is unprecedented, so is the number of people competing for the enormous pile of cash that has made the Poker World Series the most prestigious event of its kind. 슬롯머신

Poker players from all over the world dropped $10,000 to compete in the world's most prestigious poker competition. Hundreds of players qualified for the competition through various preliminary rounds called satellites.

In all, 2,000 players are expected to go for the tournament's top prize, and a total of 10,462 players have already played in this year's first 32 World Series poker games. Both numbers represent record participation in a live poker tournament.

"The response was amazing," said Howard Greenbaum, the executive director of the Poker World Series. "The best players from all over the world are gathered, and more and more rising stars are coming every day. There is no doubt that the 35th annual Poker World Series will be the greatest poker event ever organized."

The World Championship event, which began at 1 p.m. on May 22, continues until May 28, when the winner of the World Poker Series gold bracelet is expected to be determined around midnight every day.

The Poker World Series was first held in 2004, and was held earlier this year by Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., which purchased the rights to the competition. [슬롯머신](https://www.slotmachinesite.com)