Age of youngest player to win the World Series of Poker main event: 24
Age of oldest player to win a World Series of Poker bracelet: 80
Dollar amount of first place finish from the 2005 WSOP main event: $7.500,000
Estimated dollar amount for 2006: $10,000,000
Total number of possible poker hands in a 52-card deck: 2,598,960
Total number of possible royal flush hands in a a 52-card deck: 4
Odds of making a royal flush: 649,740 to 1
Odds given to Phil Ivey at BetUS to win the 2006 World Series of Poker: 150 to 1
Number of players to win back-to-back World Series of Poker main events: 3
Number of players to win back-to-back World Series of Poker main events with the same hand:1
Number of events at the 1970 World Series of Poker: 42
Number of events at the 2005 World Series of Poker: 34
Approximate number of Americans who regularly play poker: 80 million
Number of online poker rooms in 1998: 1
Number of online poker rooms in 2006: 128
Number of Las Vegas casinos legally obligated to pay off their gambling debts: 0
Number of possible 2 card combinations a player can start with from a standard 52-card deck:1326
1 comments:
Great facts! I love playing multiplayer poker on the internet but I am fairly new to the game and I am still learning so interesting tidbits like this are fantastic!
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