If you stick around the World Series of Poker until the very end during the summer — when the Main Event is in its late stages and nearing the final table — you’ll notice that most of the people around the Rio are there to staff, play, or sweat the Main Event.
Many years, however, a few people will be replacing the poker tables in the Convention Center with pool tables. However jarring it might be to see anything other than poker in the Convention Center — I, for one, have spent well over a thousand hours in the Rio, but none outside the WSOP — this change is fitting.