WSOP entrants by year since 2003....
2003: 839
2004: 2,576
2005: 5,619
2006: 8,773
2007: 6,358
2008: 6,844
2009: 1,989
Wow. That number just flat out plummeted.
The online poker craze hit...ESPN helped it along...a lot of people went to Vegas a couple years in a row and blew $10,000+ and then the economy collapses and those people figured out that blowing $10,000 isn't actually all that much fun.
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