
2026 WSOP: Benny Glaser Wins Bracelet #9 in the $50K Poker Players Championship
The 2026 edition of the World Series of Poker started much like last year’s series
Home | WSOP

The 2026 edition of the World Series of Poker started much like last year’s series

The dream of many amateur poker players is to participate in the World Series of

The world’s biggest poker series returns to the Las Vegas Strip at the Horseshoe and

The World Series of Poker can be a grind if you’re playing at full speed.

Undoubtedly the biggest prize in the annual poker world is the WSOP Main Event. The

History was made at the 2025 World Series of Poker. To begin with, Mike “The

The early days of the 2025 World Series of Poker has produced a historic moment.
On July 3, 1966, Atlanta Braves pitcher Tony Cloninger made MLB history by hitting two grand slams in a 17-3 rout of the San Francisco Giants at Candlestick Park. Driving in nine runs—a single-game record for a pitcher—Cloninger remains the only pitcher in major league history to hit two grand slams in a single game, or even an entire career.
On July 3, 2009, John Kane triggered five video poker jackpots in under an hour at Vegas's Silverton Casino. The secret? A hyper-specific software glitch that let him replay winning hands at max stakes just by pressing a precise sequence of buttons. The feds charged Kane and his partner under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, but a judge dismissed the case. The ruling? Simply pushing the buttons a casino provides to the public—even in a glitchy order—isn't hacking. The exploit forced IGT to rush out global firmware patches, cementing it as one of the wilder legal loopholes in modern gaming history.