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Road to the 2016 WSOP: The 300-Day Grind Begins

Have you seen the Zack Snyder directed fantasy film, 300, starring Gerard Butler and Game of Thrones’ Lena Headey among others? Well, this article has absolutely nothing to do with it! Okay, that’s a little white lie because the number 300 is quite significant if I am honest and stop pulling your leg.

Way back when I first discovered the fantastic game of poker, I had no idea that there was such thing as the World Series of Poker. Of course, I was plenty aware of fabulous Las Vegas, but wasn’t aware then of the tradition of thousands of poker players making their way there every summer, each sharing a similar goal of returning home with a little gold bracelet adorning their wrists and a suitcase stuffed with $100 bills.