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Tournament Attendance 1998-2010
Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: Tournament Attendance 1998-2010 (Tom Keith)
Date: Wednesday, 29 September 2010, at 1:54 a.m.
Poker had begun growing by 2001, but really "took off" in 2003, driven, I suspect, with money from whom, I suspect, are the largest advertisers on televised poker shows and the biggest winners in poker -- the online poker companies.
Dredged from Wikipedia:
Attendance at the WSOP main event has grown every year since 1992, but tripled in 2004, doubled again in 2005, and increase by 50% again in 2006. ESPN began TV coverage of the event in the late 1980's, although early coverage consisted only of a 1-hour tape-delayed broadcast. WSOP was on Discovery channel in 2000 and 2001, but again coverage consisted of a one-hour show each year. WSOP returned to ESPN in 2003, the year the pocket cam was introduced in ESPN coverage, and the year Chris Moneymaker bested 813 entrants. Moneymaker won his seat in a Pokerstars online satellite tournament. ESPN coverage expanded greaty the following year, and entries leaped to 2,576. Harrah's bought WSOP in 2004.
Planet Poker was the first real money online poker site, and began in 1998. The British TV show Late Night Poker began in 1999. Partypoker, endorsed by WPT host Mike Sexton, went online in 2001. Pokerstars also began in 2001. According to Christiansen Capital Advisors, online poker revenues grew from $82.7 million in 2001 to $2.4 billion in 2005. The World Poker Tour began in Fall 2002, was first aired on the Travel Channel in 2003, and on NBC in 2004. Full Tilt Poker began in 2004. Pokerstars.com's European Poker Tour began in 2004. The Poker Channel started in the UK in March 2005. The U.S. Congress passed the Safe Port Act in 2006. The American TV show HIgh Stakes poker began in 2006, and Poker After Dark began in 2007. By 2008 there were some three dozen online-card room with detectable levels of traffic and some 600 skins into network sites. By 2009 the largest of them, PokerStars, was grossing $1.4 billion a year and profiting $1.34 million every day.
World Series of Poker (Las Vegas) Main Event ($10,00 buy-in nolimit poker)
Year Winner Prize Entries 2000 Chris Ferguson $1,500,000 512 T. J. Cloutier 2001 Juan Carlos Mortensen $1,500,000 613 2002 Robert Varkonyi $2,000,000 631 2003 Chris Moneymaker $2,500,000 839 2004 Greg Raymer $5,000,000 2,576 2005 Joe Hachem $7,500,000 5,619 2006 Jamie Gold $12,000,000 8,773 2007 Jerry Yang $8,250,000 6,358 2008 Peter Eastgate $9,152,416 6,844 2009 Joe Cada $8,546,435 6,494 2010 ? $8,944,138 7,319
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