When Ryan Riess from Michigan won the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event for $8,361,570, he fulfilled a common lifelong dream. By his own admission, that monumental victory was only the start of the adventure for the man they called ‘Riess The Beast’ in the corridors of the Rio around the time he won his Main Event. Four years on, ‘The Beast’ told PokerNews what the best and worst things about the World Series of Poker Main Event are to him.
Riess comes into this year’s WSOP Main Event with four WSOP cashes in a week, but what is the best aspect of the world’s biggest poker festival?