Wright Pays $200 to Get Here in Nine Minutes

Chad Holloway

Level 5

We learned of a very interesting story over the dinner break from bracelet winner Larry Wright, who you may recall as the winner of last year's WSOP Event #30: $1,500 2-7 Draw Lowball for $101,975.

According to him, he was home in Corpus Christi earlier today but was delayed traveling because of hurricane and tornado troubles. Wright eventually made it to Vegas, but he was in danger of missing this event. In order to make it here before registration closed, Wright offered the taxi driver $200 if he could get him from the Las Vegas airport to the Rio Convention Center (which is where the WSOP is being held) in less than 15 minutes.

We're guessing the cabbie liked the sound of that because he had Wright at the front doors in nine minutes! Wright was all smiles that he made it in time to compete for his second gold bracelet.