Gold Strikes Gold With WSOP Win

I don't know that I'm that happy for this guys win. He was an ex-LA agent or TV producer. Doesn't seem as much of a good story as Raymer or Moneymaker winning. Oh well, I'm probably just jealous.

The new king of poker was crowned early today when Malibu, California, resident Jamie Gold, 36, won the No-Limit Texas Hold’Em Main Event at the 37th annual World Series of Poker presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light. Gold took home $12 million, the largest prize ever awarded in a live poker tournament.

He outlasted a record field of 8,773 players who anted up the $10,000 buy-in for the Main Event, creating an unprecedented prize pool of $82.5 million -- the largest for any sporting event in history. The Main Event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino was the culmination of the 46-event World Series of Poker, which this year generated more than $158 million in total prize money. Read the rest of the story.

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