Its buy-in, prestige and multimillion dollar first-place prize attracts the largest players in the game.
This year, 135 players signed up for the six-figure buy-in event. Even Phil Ivey finally came out of the shadows for the event, it was his first tournament of the 2015 WSOP.
While Ivey didn't make it past the first day, another poker-playing Phil with a lot of fans did.
Phil Hellmuth is still alive in the One Drop and, like always, he has a few fans on the rail.
One of those fans is Chad Holmes, who hails from the same state as Hellmuth.