Though women play poker, and made up 4 percent of the field at the World Series main event, none has won it.)įrom 2008 to 2015, every winner was in his 20s. In Slim’s day, winners were commonly in their 40s or 50s, and the legendary poker player Johnny Moss won three times in his 60s, including the inaugural event in 1970.īut after Chris Moneymaker, 27, gave poker a big lift with his unlikely victory in 2003, a rash of young men rushed into the game, mostly on their computers, and began dominating it at every level. But since the poker boom of the early 2000s, the pinnacle of the sport has been dominated by a generation of youngsters who learned the game playing online. Many might associate poker with old-time cowboys like Amarillo Slim, who won back in 1972.
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