There will be some amazing poker events in 2020, but which ones will really grab the audience’s attention and refuse to let go? What events are the ones we’ll look back on in 12 months’ time and talk about with our mates? Let’s take a look at the most plausible yet pulsating possibilities we can conjure.

A British Player Wins the World Series Main Event

It’s not outside the realms of possibility, but it does require a healthy use of your imagination to picture the image of a British Player winning the World Series of Poker’s flagship poker tournament. That’s mainly because no British-born poker player has ever won the WSOP Main Event, and although Iranian-born Mansour Matloubi resided in London, no-one has event done that since 1990.

Why is that the case? Britain has some of the best poker players on the planet including, perhaps, the current best player in the world in Stephen Chidwick. They have other superstars such as Sam Grafton, Jake Cody, Sam Trickett and Barny Boatman, bracelet winners and EPT and High Roller crushes all. Why has the Main Event been such a sticking point over recent years? Numbers.