Gold Wishes Players Good Fortune in Nostalgic Shuffle up And Deal
2006 Main Event winner Jamie Gold has just shared a few words before announcing the iconic, "Shuffle up and deal!"
Gold, who WSOP Vice President Jack Effel joked was the only person who doesn't want the Main Event attendance record broken, called the World Series a "Herculean feat" that gets pulled off each year and said he hoped to see the 2006 attendance record surpassed, "which I was so lucky and fortunate to win."
"I'm just so happy to be here, I'm so proud to be here, and I really do feel lucky and fortunate, and I'm so excited to get into this event in a few minutes," he told a crowd of players and poker media in the Horseshoe event center. "Everyone, I wish you all the good fortune that I have had, all the run-good that I have had, all the luck that I have had — except when you're the last person at the final table against me, then I do not wish you so well."
With 785 players to start things off, Day 1a of the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event is officially underway!
