Well, this years Worlds Series of Poker has finally come to an end. It has been an exciting year with more players attending than ever before. The question is how big can it get? Close to 9,000 players attended the main event and many of the other events were packed.

$12 million, the first price of the big one, is an awful lot of money. The winner doesn’t only get the fame and glory and a considerable amount of money, he gets fantasy “quit your job and never look back” kind of money. And the money seems to be the big issue this year. Jamie Gold, this year’s champion, did not even managed get the cash from Rio before he was sued for half of it.

He is accused of promising half of the price money to Los Angeles television development executive Bruce Crispin Leyser. And Leyser has got a court order that prevents Gold from getting the money before the matter is settled in court. The argument Leyser uses is that Gold is a gambler and that he therefore cannot be trusted with the money, and we all off course know that gamblers are unreliable. But what is the case all about? Well, Leyser claims that he helped Gold to recruit celebrities to wear Bodog clothing during the WSOP and for that they got one seat to the main event. What then happened, according to Leyser, was that they agreed that Gold should take the seat, and the rest is as we say history.

We have to wait and see what happens; the matter will be settled in court in September. But one thing is for sure; when there is big money involved people are prepared to go a long way in order to get their hands on some.