Today through Wednesday, July 16th, during the 2025- 56th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP), at the Horseshoe Hotel & Casino’s Jack Binion’s Steak Restaurant is the World Series of Poker: “Callin’ Your Bluff Prime Rib Dinner Challenge”
where you are invited to go All-In on a 32 oz. Prime Rib Steak, a 16 oz. Jack Binion’s Baked Potato with 6 big sized fixings, and a gigantic delicious Chocolate 9 Layer Cake slice,
and if you can beat the clock and finish your meal within 20 minutes, you will get the meal on the house! If not- you have to pay $150- but even at that price it is a bargain, because a meal of this size, at any gourmet steak house normally goes for $300!
By a miracle I finished this incredible gigantic meal- BUT not in 20 minutes- it took me 1 & 1/2 hours to finish it, but it was well worth this amazing experience! So if you can’t finish it, do as my friend Ken did, take what you can’t finish to go, and this restaurant will be happy to give you a big bag with 3 plastic containers to store it all in, so it can last you for another 4 days! I like to give Ken a special thanks for some of these beautiful close up photos, like the 1 on the left, and those 2 great deserts further down in this story!
- Jack Binion’s Steak delivers on the legacy of the Binion name with an acclaimed selection of steaks cooked to perfection in an 1800-degree double broiler. This restaurant keeps up the great tradition of the best 5 Star quality of steaks, with the finest meats- as when for many years, the Horseshoe in Downtown Las Vegas had an incredible late night $2 steak special, with most of the meat for the steaks coming from cattle on Benny Binion’s ranches in Montana! Over the years, countless times I got to experience this amazing meal, with the highest quality of gourmet New York Steak, and other meats that were always cooked to perfection, the same top quality as they are now served at the new uptown Horseshoe- at Jack Binion’s Steak. So it was great for me to experience that again at The World Series of Poker: Callin’ Your Bluff Prime Rib Dinner Challenge!
So you still have time to experience this incredible meal, and the famous Binion’s 5 Star meats, and their gigantic sized: Prime Rib, Baked Potato, and a gigantic delicious Chocolate 9 Layer Cake slice: 
that will only be available till Wednesday July 16th, as part of their World Series of Poker special offer! 
The iconic Benny Binion, was an American casino operator who established illegal gambling operations in the Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas area. In the 1940s, he relocated to Nevada, where gambling was legal. He started one of the first Casino’s in Las Vegas, when he opened the successful Binion’s Horseshoe casino in downtown Las Vegas. 
He was your typical Cowboy and Rancher, who road out from Texas in his Cadillac, with $500,000 in cash in his trunk, to start one of the earliest Casino’s in Las Vegas, and be a major part of Las Vegas history. 
In the early 1980s I was honored to meet in person the legendary Benny Binion, a few times at his Horseshoe casino. He was about 79 years old, and walked around slowly, but was the man in charge, as he would protect his poker players from the IRS, whose agents were trying to go after the poker players that were winning big amounts of cash during the World Series of Poker! Benny actually threw out a few of the IRS agents- out of his Casino! Now that’s a Texan Cowboy for you!
At the time Benny Binion and his sons: Ted and Jack (who I also had the pleasure of meeting) were known to have millions of dollars in cash, gold and silver, hidden and buried in the desert in a secret location! 
Benny had so much cash on hand in the vaults in the basement of his casino, that in the middle of the night, other casinos would call him if a player demanded to be paid in cash, rather than a check for a big jackpot they may have won! 
During the 1980s during the World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe, and at other casinos, I had the privilege of meeting some of the legends of Poker, and original winners of the WSOP like: “The Godfather of Poker” . . . “Texas Dolly” Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim, the very first winner of the WSOP- nicknamed: The Grand Old Man of Poker- Johnny Moss, Pug Pearson, Johnny Chan, Tom McEvoy, Jack “Treetop” Straus, and Stu “The Kid” Ungar. 
You can see in the above photo that I am posing in front of large portraits of a few of the original Poker legends, and WSOP winners, whom I had meet in person over 40 years ago! It is always a pleasure to be around people that are part of history- no matter in what area or field they are in. 
Still to this day you can take a free photo with one million dollars in cash, in a big good luck Horseshoe, that has been a trademark of Binion’s since 1954! You stand behind a pyramid of one million dollars with a backdrop of Fremont Street, smile and push the button to take your photo: 
On the right is Benny Binion, with his daughter Becky, and the unveiling of the second Million Dollar Display at the Horseshoe, Las Vegas, June 4, 1969. (Above Photo). The $1 Million Dollar display – one hundred $10,000 bills – which is the highest denomination to ever publicly circulate, way back in 1934! This is MORE than rare, you cannot find this bill in the photo on the left, ANYWHERE in EXISTENCE! It was introduced at the Horseshoe Club in Dec. ‘54. The display was the original tourist photo op in Las Vegas, and one of its most enduring! A long time ago, I was lucky enough to take one of these photos! Below photo of the entrance to the 2025 WSOP in Paris Las Vegas:
Back in January 1949, Benny Binion arranged for Johnny Moss and Nick “The Greek” Dandolos to play a head-to-head poker tournament which ended up lasting five months long! – with Dandolos ultimately losing a reported two million dollars. The 42-year-old Moss had to take breaks to sleep occasionally, during which Dandalos, then aged 57, went over to the craps table and played. After the final hand, and losing millions of dollars, Dandolos uttered one of the most famous poker quotes of all time: “Mr. Moss, I have to let you go.” (This narrative is disputed as fact and is most likely a myth. Binion didn’t operate a casino until 1951 in Las Vegas.) Below you can see me standing in front of the “Final Table” for the WSOP, that will be televised and broadcast all over the world: 
In 1970, after years of arranging heads-up matches between high-stakes players, Binion invited six players to compete in a tournament. Playing no-limit Texas Hold’em, the players competed for cash at the table and later took a vote on who was to be named champion. The legendary The Grand Old Man of Poker- Johnny Moss, then aged 63, was voted champion by his younger competition and received a small trophy. The following year, a freeze-out format was introduced with a $10,000 buy-in, and the World Series of Poker was born. Binion’s creation of the World Series helped popularize the game of poker, though he greatly underestimated how popular the World Series would become. In 1973, he speculated that eventually the tournament might have fifty or so entrants. However, by 2006, the tournament’s main event (not including all of the other events) would have 8,773 entrants. 
So when I went to the World Series of Poker in the early 1980’s, I can’t remember there being more than 9 tables, with only about 100 players in the main event! I was watching the Final Table from the first row, right behind the winner Tom McEvoy, and I was right on Tom’s shoulder, but I can not find myself in the background of the below photo as Tom is blocking me as he stood up to celebrate when he won the 1983 WSOP with only 2 pairs: 
Now, when I went this year in the year 2025, it is the third-largest WSOP Main Event in history, with 9,735 total entries, and the 2025 WSOP Main Event boasts a total prize pool worth $90,535,500, and any player making it to the final table would win at least 1 million dollars, with $10,000,000 going to the eventual 2025 WSOP Main Event champion! Wow! They came a long way, all thanks to Benny Binion and his sons: Ted and Jack! I am happy to witness Poker history- towards the beginning in the early 1980s when it was still relatively small, and currently this year- 45 years latter, when it has grown to be astronomically bigger! Below you can see ken standing in front of the “Final Table” for the WSOP, that will be televised and broadcast all over the world: 
Benny Binion never forgot his Texas roots and was a key player in getting the National Finals Rodeo (NFR) to move to Las Vegas. He never forgot the cowboys after they arrived; he always paid the entry fees for all of the cowboys for their championship event. When the casino closed, Boyd Gaming took up the tradition that Binion started by continuing to pay all the entry fees. Every year during the NFR there is a large rodeo stock auction called “Benny Binion’s World Famous Bucking Horse and Bull Sale.” Oh I wish! : 
Binion was in the vanguard of Las Vegas casino innovation. He was the first in the downtown Glitter Gulch to replace sawdust-covered floors with carpeting, the first to dispatch limousines to transport customers to and from the casino, and the first to offer free drinks to players. Although comps were standard for high rollers, Binion gave them to all players. He also shied away from the gaudy performing acts typical of other Las Vegas casinos. 
Binion was known to be generous to patrons, and said he followed a simple philosophy when serving his customers: “Good food, good whiskey cheap, and a good gamble.” The Horseshoe is also believed to be the first major casino to offer 100-times-odds at craps (a patron with a bet on the pass or don’t-pass lines could take or lay up to 100 times their bet at the real actual odds of the dice making the point).
Binion and his wife, Teddy Jane, had five children: two sons, Jack and Ted, and three daughters. So it was his son Jack that kept the great tradition of having the finest steak at the new Jack Binion’s Steak restaurant: 
at the new Horseshoe on the Vegas Strip across the street from the Bellagio and Caesars Palace, with the original Horseshoe casino still in downtown Las Vegas.
The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) started on May 27, and runs to July 16 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year’s event will feature 100 bracelet events, marking a record number of bracelet events, according to the WSOP. The $10,000 buy-in Main Event will run from July 2 to July 16, with multiple starting flights.
The entry fee for the 2025 WSOP Main Event is $10,000. This buy-in has remained consistent since 1972, according to Legal US Poker Sites. The Main Event is a No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a single entry allowed. The WSOP also features a wide variety of other events with varying buy-in amounts, including those with buy-ins as low as $777 and as high as $25,000 or even $250,000 for high roller events! This year several new events have been added to the schedule, including a $3,000 T.O.R.S.E. event, a $100,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event, and a $25,000 High Roller PLO/NLH Mixed 8-Handed event.
Helping unveil the richest trophy in all of sports and major entertainment awards shows, award-winning magician and illusionist Criss Angel joined World Series of Poker Senior Vice President Jack Effel at the WSOP Feature Table to show off a 2025 World Series of Poker- WSOP Main Event bracelet worth $500,000: 
The World Series of Poker® is the largest, richest and most prestigious gaming event and poker brand in the world, having awarded more than $4 billion in prize money over the past six decades. Featuring a comprehensive slate of tournaments in every major poker variation, the WSOP is poker’s longest-running tournament dating back to 1970. In 2024, the flagship event in Las Vegas attracted 229,553 entrants and awarded more than $438 million in prize money – both all-time records for the series. The WSOP portfolio of events includes approximately 40 WSOP Circuit Events annually across five continents, WSOP Europe (since 2007), WSOP Paradise (since 2023) and the record-breaking WSOP Online festival. International satellites to WSOP live events are hosted exclusively at GGPoker, the World’s Biggest Poker Room.
During this year’s World Series of Poker, at the PokerOrg VIP Legends Lounge at the Horseshoe, I had the privilege to meet one of this year’s current poker players competing in the WSOP: Chris Moorman, (born 12 July 1985) who is a British professional poker player from Essex, United Kingdom. He is the all-time leader in career online poker tournament earnings crossing the $14 million mark, and now has well over 20 million dollars in winnings! He has won 2 WSOP bracelets, and has successfully cashed out almost 40 times!, and “finished in the money” 82 times! competing in the WSOP, and he is having a great worldwide career at live gambling in Poker at cities in exotic countries everywhere! So if you add in all the live on location poker tournaments in the US and Internationally he has competed in, and the WSOP tournaments and main events he has been in, to all of the online tournaments that he has competed in, and has either won or finished high up in the money, his total winnings would be phenomenal! So you will be hearing a lot more from Chris Moorman! He was so kind to take a lot of time to talk with me, and pose for a photo with me: 
It was a pleasure talking to him about his poker career, and this year’s WSOP, and my early experiences over 40 years ago, when I meet Benny Binion himself at the original Horseshoe, the World Series of Poker in the early 1980s- before he was even born, and many of the Poker legends like Doyle Brunson- who by coincidence happened to be Chris’s poker idol! So in his book he wrote that when he signed it for me: 
Celebrity Chef and Emmy award-winning television host Guy Fieri is one of the world’s most recognizable and influential culinary stars. Known as the Mayor of Flavortown and the face of Food Network’s favorite: Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives, the Horseshoe is very excited to introduce his newest restaurant at Horseshoe Las Vegas, Guy’s Flavortown Vegas Sports Kitchen. This really is your best bet to watch sports on dozens of HD screens while enjoying Fieri’s signature American-style cuisine, bold flavors, unique combination meals, and mouth-watering barbecue.
So during the World Series of Poker, or anytime during the year, we would recommend that you go to the Horseshoe’s and Guy Fieri’s Flavortown Vegas Sports Kitchen, where you can experience for dessert: the Triple Double ice-cream sandwiches! (See above photo).
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