Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 2003, e 839 ngā kaitākaro i te whakataetae matua o te WSOP, ā, e toru ngā wā i te tau 2004. Ko te karauna o te 2004 WSOP toa, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, he roia patene mai i Connecticut, i whakakaha i te rongonui o te kaupapa i waenga i nga kaitakaro amateur (me te nuinga o te Ipurangi). I te whakataetae nui o te tau 2005, 5,619 ngā kaitono i whakataetae mō te utu tuatahi $7,500,000. Ko te toa, ko Joe Hachem o Ahitereiria, he kaitakaro semi-ngaio. I haere tonu tēnei tipu i te tau
2006, me nga kaitono 8,773 me te utu tuatahi mo te $ 12,000,000 (kua riro i a Jamie Gold).