Introduction of the satellite tournaments to gain the entry in the principal event (CA 1979-80)

Gary preceding Thompson as directing of WSOP was Eric Drache, who helped Binion of family the series of 1973 to 1987 and which is one of the people perhaps most responsible for the transformation of the WSOP of an annual meeting of poker playing of the colleagues in a series of events strongly organized identified by all like central center of the calendar of poker. Drache is also the usually quoted man as after being conceived idea to have satellite tournaments of set of players to gain entries in the $10.000 buy the principal event. One tells that in 1979 or Drache 1980 presented the first time the idea to a table of the players, each one of which had approximately $1.000 to rest in front of him, that they play a simple table, tournament all or nothing for a main entrance event. In 1983, Tom McEvoy became the first gaining principal event to have gained his seat by satellite, and today it can reasonably suppose that a significant percentage of the players who play the victory of event inside their manner by satellite rather than pay the full fees of entry.