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1984 World Series of Poker

series of poker tournaments

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1170514 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1984 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.

Events

There were 13 preliminary events at the 1984 World Series of Poker. 11 of the 13 preliminary events, including the first ten, were awarded to the first-time bracelet winners.

Main Event

There were 132 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament, with the top 9 players finishing in the money. The 1984 Main Event was the first of three consecutive final table appearances for Jesse Alto. Jack Keller defeated Byron Wolford heads-up with a pair of tens winning over a missed straight draw and pair of sixes.

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“1984 World Series of Poker” enters the record as series of poker tournaments. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Series and Poker can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1984 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.