Wsop 1971

The 1971 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of pokertournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe during May 1–15, 1971. This was only the 2nd installment of the World Series of Poker, but unlike at the 1970 event, freezeout tournaments were played to decide the winner of the main title. The freezeout structure replaced the cash games, and it was kept in use ever since. 5 freezeouts were played in total—4 preliminary events and the Main Event—each featuring a different poker variant. The preliminary events required player to put up a buy-in of $1K, while the Main Event buy-in was $5K.^[1]

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Preliminary events[edit]

2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - No Limit Hold'em World Championship - Poker tournament results, including winners and their payouts and winnings. 2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - No. The main event of the WSOP is a $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Holdem tournament, first played at Binions Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas downtown, with Johnny Moss winning the inaugural event in 1970. The event is now played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino owned by Caesars Entertainment. WSOP.com continues this legacy, yet strikes the proper balance between professional-grade and accessible. It's all the action and prestige of the World Series of Poker, from the comfort of your home or locale of choice. At WSOP.com, anyone can play and anyone can win. Dreams are dealt on daily basis. The 1971 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe during May 1–15, 1971. This was only the 2nd installment of the World Series of Poker, but unlike at the 1970 event, freezeout tournaments were played to decide the winner of the main title. Jul 01, 2019 The main event established itself as the focal point of the World Series of Poker in 1971. When Jack Binion created the WSOP, no one, including himself, could have ever imagined the explosive.

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Main Event[edit]

There were 6 entrants to the main event, each paying $5,000 to enter the tournament.^[6] The game played was no limitTexas hold 'em. Johnny Moss won the tournament and took the whole prize pool. Moss's victory that year was the 1st time a player had been awarded the Main Event Championship 2 years in a row, a feat that would later be also accomplished by Doyle Brunson (in 1976 and 1977), Stu Ungar (in 1980 and 1981), and Johnny Chan (in 1986 and 1987).

Final table[edit]

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References[edit]

1. ^'2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - No Limit Hold'em World Championship'. CardPlayer Magazine. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
2. ^'2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - Limit 7 Card Stud - Event 1 - Poker Tournaments - Results'. CardPlayer Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
3. ^'2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - Limit Razz - Event 2 - Poker Tournaments - Event Info'. CardPlayer Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
4. ^'2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - Limit 5 Card Stud - Event 3 - Poker Tournaments - Event Info'. CardPlayer Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
5. ^'2nd World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1971 - Limit A to 5 Draw - Event 4 - Poker Tournaments - Event Info'. CardPlayer Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
6. ^'2nd World Series of Poker 1971 $5K No Limit Hold'em World Championship'. The Hendon Mob. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-15.

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Thanks in part to the fact that every player voted for himself as best all-around player at the inaugural edition of the World Series of Poker, a change needed to take place in the format of the event for the sophomore edition. In 1971, the WSOP changed to a freezeout tournament, meaning that the last man standing with all the chips would be crowned World Champion. Each player would pay a $5,000 buy-in and the prize was winner-take-all to add some drama to the procedings. Every player started with the same amount in chips, and no player could reload his stack by buying in for more. This sounds elementary by today's tournament standards, but it was groundbreaking at a time when every poker player on the planet was used to the idea that if they ever ran out of money, they could turn to their wallet or money clip to buy back into the game. The experiment proved a success in 1971, and historically as well, considering that every WSOP main event champion has been decided by using freezeout tournament rules ever since - although the winner-take-all approach has been dropped.
The media was also influential in bringing about the switch after they complained about the boring nature of the first edition. Los Angeles Times reporter Ted Thackrey said, 'You've got to find a way to make it a contest…If you want to get the press involved and turn the World Series into a real sporting event, you need to give it some structure, create some drama, and make it a real tournament.' This is also one of the first times the idea of poker as sport, or poker covered by the media as a sport is documented.
Johnny Moss, Jack 'Treetop' Straus, 'Puggy' Pearson, Jimmy Casella, 'Sailor' Roberts, Doyle Brunson, and 'Amarillo Slim' Preston paid the $5,000 entry fee, and took their seats to decide the second world champion of poker. No records or notes were kept on the event, but it is known that it lasted two days, and that Pearson faced off with Moss head's-up in the end. The 'Grand Old Man of Poker' defeated Pearson and he won his second WSOP titile in a row, along with $35,000. 'Moss won that event…so it does show [in 1970] we voted for the right guy,' later recalled Brunson of the 1971 event.

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Quote Source: 'All In: The (Almost) Entirely True Story of The World Series of Poker' by Jonathan Grotenstein and Storms Reback

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