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When Harrah's Entertainment employee and Chairman Gary Loveman engineered the purchase of the World Series of Poker brand and franchise from the Binion family years ago, he knew what he was doing. Even as poker's popularity was soaring and many other pro level tournament circuits were cropping up, the WSOP remained the Big Show as far as poker players were concerned, and Harrah's was going to control it.

Over the last few years it seemed many poker players who won a major event quickly turned pro, spending their time traveling the major poker circuit and developing their poker skills. Not all players do so, however, such as Jason Warner, a 22-year-old who won nearly half a million dollars recently at the World Series of Poker.