Former Tacoma resident in Russell Wilson jersey playing for World Series of Poker title on Saturday

I used to dream of playing in the World Series of Poker Main Event one day. At a cost of $10,000 — and not enough poker acumen to really compete at this point — it has become more of a bucket list item to waste money on some day. But with the field growing from seven entrants in the initial edition in 1970, to 839 entrants in 2003 when Chris Moneymaker won and changed everything, increasing the field to 2,576 entrants the next year, to 7,874 entrants this year, you’d have to be a little insane to think you’d ever make a dent in the tournament.