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1979 World Series of Poker

series of poker tournaments

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1362201 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1979 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA from May 11 to 22, 1979.

Events

There were 11 preliminary events at the 1979 World Series of Poker. The 1979 WSOP featured the first designed tournament in WSOP history where two players won a bracelet for the same event. Moss became the first player in WSOP history to win seven career bracelets.

Main Event

There were 54 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. Fowler was the first amateur to win the WSOP Main Event.

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This entry incorporates text from “1979 World Series of Poker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.