HORSESHOE CASINO, FIRST ANNUAL WSOP 1970, Poker Card Guard

The World Series of Poker held the FIRST ANNUAL WORLD SERIES OF POKER at the LEGANDARY HORSESHOE CASINO in 1970.

Fewer than 50 Poker tables were in the whole of Las Vegas in 1970. The host Casino did not even have a Poker Room to the 30 or so entrants to the Event that would become known as theWORLD SERIES OF POKER.

This Card Guard is from a Set of 5 different Card Guards produced for the HORSESHOE CASINO HOTEL and between them, they commemorate:

1. WSOP FIRST ANNUAL 1970

2. GAMING HALL OF FAME, JACK BINION INDUCTED

3. WHERE THE LEGEND BEGAN, LAS VEGAS

4. THE LEGEND CONTINUES, BOSSIER CITY, L.A.

5. NOBODY BOOKS A BIGGER BET