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...summer marks the 40th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), and the Texas native has competed in all but two of them - more than anyone else in the event's history - and racked up 10 championship bracelets, tied for second all-time. On the eve of this year's "Main Event," a $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em tournament which starts July 3, TIME caught up with Brunson to talk about how the WSOP has changed over the years...
...played the first one in 1970. We had two tournaments: the Main Event and a Deuce-to-Seven Lowball game. I don't remember how I did, but I know there were only six of us, including Jack Straus, Johnny Moss, and "Amarillo Slim." Back then everything was held at Binion's Horseshoe [now called Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel]. It was more of a reunion; you knew everybody who came. When we weren't playing, we got together [socially]. Now I don't know anybody, and the whole thing is so big I wouldn't be able to find...
...course I remember winning my two Main Event bracelets [in 1976 and 1977]. What made the place for me were the people. Except for [David] Sklansky, most of the guys I played against aren't playing these tournaments. Jack Binion is still my best friend, but he's never there, so I don't go down there much anymore. (Read a Q & A with last year's World Series of Poker champion, Peter Eastgate...
...city’s vistas are adorned by banners that display the Biennale’s trademark red, square logo. They announce the performances, special events and exhibitions that go on until November, held mostly in the national pavilions in the public gardens of the Giardini—the main site of the Biennale—but throughout the city’s various “sestieres” as well...
...order to get to the grave, one must travel by vaporetto, the main form of public transportation, to a little island across a plane of water that lies to the north of the main island in the lagoon. You step right off the boat at Cimitero, where the city’s inhabitants—born high or low—rest in peace. At first, the expected emphasis on decoration can be found in the multiple bunches of flowers and ribbons, the specially-posed portrait photos that flutter by the graves, and especially the family-commissioned tombs that boast...