Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko nga mea nui o te raupapa 2008 ko te kowhiringa o Erick Lindgren hei Kaihauturu o te Tau. I mua i te 2008 WSOP, Lindgren, nana nei i riro he poroporo, me te hanga e toru tepu whakamutunga, i whānui whakaaro ki te kia "te kaitākaro pai ki te kore riro i te WSOP poroporo<unk>. Phil Hellmuth, he Poker Hall o Famer, whakaturia rekoata hou mo te nuinga WSOP mahi moni (68) me te nuinga WSOP mahi tepu whakamutunga (41). I arahi a Nikolay Evdakov i nga kaitakaro katoa me te rekoata 10 moni kua mutu. Ko te Huihuinga Matua, i tīmata ki te 6,844 ngā kaiuru (he taumata i whakanuia anake e te maha o ngā kaiuru i
2006), i whakamutua i te wa i heke iho ai te huihuinga ki nga kaitakaro e iwa e hiahiatia ana mo te teepu whakamutunga; I whakahoutia te Takahanga Matua i te Noema 9 ka mutu me te mutunga o te upoko-ake i waenga i a Peter Eastgate me Ivan Demidov i te aonga ake. I tenei tau ko te tuatahi i whakamutua ai te Takahanga Matua i tenei ahua, he whakarereketanga i whakauruhia i runga i te tono a ESPN kia ahei te whatunga pouaka whakaata ki te whakaputa i tetahi Whakaaturanga Matua i te ra ano.