For the regular citizen all roads lead to Rome, for the online Poker community all top online Poker satellites lead to the WSOP. Celebrated once a year for the past 37 years the World Series of Poker, WSOP, finds its origins in the late 40′s when a grandiose Poker marathon between Nicholas “the Greek” Dandolos and Johnny Moss lasted five months. Its organizer Benny Binion entertained the idea of reproducing the unforgettable event for no less than twenty years, finally deciding to arrange a similar occurrence in 1970. The new event brought together some of the best Poker players of the time and was baptized with its arch famous name “World Series of Poker”. The winner of such event was to carry the title of “World Champion” of Poker until the next meeting, one year after. 

Thirty-seven years later the event is as popular and important as ever and holds responsible for the existence of most of the top online Poker satellites being played in the world. With the main goal of promising a chance at the WSOP’s tables, thousands of satellites begin filling cyberspace as early as a few months before the grand event. Besides its prestige and the dreamland title it confers, the WSOP has an extraordinary money prize that has proportionally escalated with the tournament’s fame and entry numbers throughout the years. Just to give you an idea, the prize money awarded to the winner of this event in 2002 was of $19,599,230, in comparison to a “mere” $7,769,000 in 1992; so make your calculations…

If you are interested to enter any of the top online Poker satellites leading to this legendary event, you are still on time; the scheduled date for the beginning of the 38th annual WSOP is June 1st, 2007.