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# The Craze Gets Crazier
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/1629/
- Published: 2005-07-10T12:30:02.000Z
- Updated: 2005-07-10T12:30:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

> The person lucky enough to win the 36th annual \[World Series of Poker\] tournament will earn an astonishing seven-and-a-half (m) million dollars. Last year's prize was a mere five (m) million, doubling what accountant Chris Moneymaker made in 2003.

> The person knocked out first in the final table of the no-limit Texas Hold'em event will receive a one (m) million-dollar consolation prize. A total of nine people will be seated at the final table, which is scheduled to begin Friday at Binion's Gambling Hall and Hotel in downtown Las Vegas.

> The main event began July 7th at the Rio hotel-casino with a record five-thousand-619 players. That compares to just over 25-hundred in 2004 and 839 players in 2003.

[Link](http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3575061&ref=thedailyeudemon.com).

A good opportunity to recall Marshall McLuhan's observations about poker:

> Poker is a game that has often been cited as the expression of all the complex attitudes and unspoken values of a competitive society. It calls for shrewdness, aggression, trickery, and unflattering appraisals of character. . . Poker is intensely individualistic, allowing no place for kindness or consideration, but only for the greatest good of the greatest number”“the number one.

*Understanding Media*, 1964

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