{"id":178916,"date":"2021-08-08T11:14:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/?p=178916"},"modified":"2021-08-08T11:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-08-08T15:14:13","slug":"what-is-it-like-to-be-a-wsop-bracelet-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armchairarcade.com\/perspectives\/2021\/08\/08\/what-is-it-like-to-be-a-wsop-bracelet-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"What is it Like to be a WSOP Bracelet Winner?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As a poker player, a World Series of Poker bracelet is the most coveted non-monetary prize you can win. At the end of 2014, 1083 bracelets had been awarded so far with almost half of them awarded to multi-time winners. But with only a handful of top players familiar with how it feels to be a WSOP bracelet winner, what exactly does it feel like? Continue reading to find out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A history of the award<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bracelet was first introduced at the annual 1976 World Series of Poker tournament and has been awarded to each year\u2019s crowned champion ever since. While they were previously reserved for only a handful of standout players, up to 100 bracelets are now awarded each year. Today, poker players tend to rank based on whether or not they have won a bracelet during their professional career so far. A number of rival poker tournaments, such as the World Poker Tour, have also capitalised on the popularity of the WSOP bracelet by developing their own version of the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first winners<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1976, Doyle Brunson was the first professional poker player to win a WSOP bracelet. To date, he has been awarded with ten in total to tie second place with Johnny Chan and Phil Ivey behind Phil Hellmuth\u2019s record-breaking 15. He won his second bracelet just a year later, joining an elite group of only four players to ever win the coveted WSOP Main Event more than once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With some of poker\u2019s highest rollers leaving tournaments with bracelets in tow, it became the ultimate status symbol of professional poker and one that players would do almost anything to get their hands on. Daniel Negreanu, a GGPoker<\/a> ambassador and one of the world\u2019s greatest poker players, held the record as the youngest bracelet winner between 1998 and 2005 and with no plans to retire, his seventh may well be in sight.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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