January 17

• 2023: Slow News Day
  Nothing super interesting happened on this day in WSOP history, so here's a factoid: The first seventeen WSOP Main Event champs were born and raised in the U.S. The first foreign-born winner was Johnny Chan in 1987, whose family moved from China to Phoenix in 1968 when he was 11 years old.

{ Data is current through January 1, 2023. }