While the poker tournaments that are being held having impressive, it has been speculated about whether poker in the UK could up its game to create an event to compete with the WSOP and attract fans of some of the biggest online poker tournaments there are.
This might sound fine in practice, but one only has to look at some of the stats surrounding the WSOP to see what a tall order this could be, For example, the 2019 event consisted of 90 different tournaments and attracted over 150,000 hopefuls to play.
The Main Event itself started with 8,569 players which was eventually whittled down to just nine players with the eventual winner, Hossein Ensan, taking home an incredible $10,000,000 USD.
The whole event was held, as is the custom, in the Las Vegas Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino which boasts over 2,500 suites as well as over 117,000 square feet of gambling space. The sheer scale of the casino needed to host an event like this is, briefly, why the UK might find it difficult to hold anything resembling the WSOP.
That is not to say that the country doesn’t boast some impressive casinos that would provide a great backdrop to events.
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