3,142 seniors (ages 50 and above) joined the $1,000 buy-in Seniors No Limit Hold'em Championship of the 2010 World Series of Poker , which brought the total prize pool to $2.8 Million with 324 players taking a piece of the pot. The big winner was 78 year old retiree Harold Angle of Sun City, Florida, who won the biggest seniors poker event in the history of the WSOP, and claimed his first career WSOP gold bracelet, the Gold Eagle Trophy and $487,994. The famous “Golden Eagle” trophy, which is engraved with the winner’s name(s) is a keepsake that is passed forward from champion to champion, similar to the tradition of the Stanley Cup in the National Hockey League. Harold Angle was the eldest of the nine players at the final table with some of the ones in their 50s "young" enough to be his children. Harold Angle was nearly eliminated in Day One of the tournament when he showed 400 chips left from his 3,000 starting stack. He event told his son-in-law at the rail that...