START pt 1 Luck sucks but it?s a part of the game. Aces get cracked, flushes come on the river and sometimes the flop comes 7 2 2. The best hand when the money goes in is not always the hand with the money when it?s all said and done with. There are more than 50 events at the World Series of Poker every year (54 to be exact) and most of them are won by people you?ve never heard of or ever will again. Most victories in the WSOP are claimed by players who do know enough to get comfortable at a table but who will never again stumble upon a lucky enough to claim a partner piece of jewelry for their other wrist. For most WSOP bracelet winners, their victory is their fifteen minutes of fame. But there are a few excepti phen375 ons. 110 different people own more than 1 World Series of Poker bracelet. 110 people have climbed through fields as small as 6 to as large as 8,770 and won multiple WSOP tournaments. Those 110 players represent by and large, the greatest 110 poker players of the past 38 years (the WSOP began in 1970.) So in preparation for the May 30 start to the 2008 World Series of Poker, here are the ten greatest players in the history of the WSOP. 10. Phil Ivey ? 5 Bracelets 26 Cashes No player in the world today is more feared than Phil Ivey. He is aggressive, a defender and a master of a vast array of different games. He is a regular at the legendary Big Game and one of a handful of players to have won both a WSOP and WPT event.