| Event |
Winner |
Prize |
Runner-up |
$1,500 LimitIn the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing...
Hold'em |
Steven Sim |
$289,200 |
Charles Brock |
| $1,500 Seven Card Stud |
Johnny ChanJohnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player.-Early life:...
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$135,600 |
Mansour Matloubi Mansour Matloubi is an Iranian professional poker player.Matloubi was quite active in tournament poker in the 1990s. His win at the 1990 Main Event made him the first non-American to win that particular tournament. Matloubi also made the final table of the 1993 Main Event, finishing in fourth place...
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| $1,500 Limit Omaha |
Brent Carter Brent R. Carter is an American professional poker player from Oak Park, Illinois.Carter first finished in the money of a World Series of Poker event in 1991 in the $1,500 seven-card stud event. He won his first bracelet the same year in the $1,500 No Limit Texas hold 'em event, defeating O'Neil...
|
$83,400 |
Moxie Ungar |
| $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split |
Vince Burgio Vincent Burgio is an American professional poker player based in West Hills, California.Burgio is a graduate of the University of Missouri...
|
$127,200 |
Gary Hutzler |
$1,500 RazzRazz is a form of stud poker that is normally played for ace-to-five low . The object of Razz is to make the lowest five-card possible hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against you for low, and the ace always plays low. The best possible Razz...
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Mike Hart Mike Hart is an American poker player from Escondido, California.Hart is a veteran of many years at the World Series of Poker and has won four WSOP championship bracelets. He won his two bracelets in razz, one in limit Texas hold 'em and one in seven-card stud eight or better...
|
$88,800 |
Tommy Hufnagle |
| $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split |
T. J. CloutierThomas James Cloutier is a professional poker player from Albany, California. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006.-Early years:...
|
$135,000 |
Chris Bjorin Christer Björin is a Swedish professional poker player, now based in London, England.Björin has been a regular at the World Series of Poker since the early 1990s, and has won two WSOP bracelets....
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$1,500 No LimitIn the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing...
Hold'em |
George Rodis |
$135,000 |
Phil HellmuthPhillip Jerome Hellmuth, Jr. is an American professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his temperamental, "poker brat" personality...
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$1,500 Pot LimitIn the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing...
Omaha |
O'Neil LongsonO'Neil Longson is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada.Longson first finished in the money at the World Series of Poker in 1980 , finishing 4th in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event. In 1990 in the $5,000 Pot limit Omaha event, he finished 2nd to former world champion...
|
$100,800 |
J. C. Pearson |
| $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em |
Jay Heimowitz Jay B. Heimowitz is an American poker player from Bethel, New York. Heimowitz was one of the original players to help establish the Mayfair Club as a premier poker house....
|
$148,200 |
Quinton Nixon |
| $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split |
J. C. Pearson |
$103,000 |
Matthias Rohnacher |
| $5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw A poker player is drawing if he has a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw or drawing hand. For example, in seven-card stud, if four of a player's first five cards are all spades, but the hand is otherwise weak, he is drawing to a flush...
w/Rebuys |
Lyle BermanLyle Arnold Berman is a professional poker player and business executive.-Business:Berman grew up in Minnesota and attended the University of Minnesota where he graduated in 1964 with a degree in business administration. He then went to work for his father's leather business, Berman Buckskin. ...
|
$128,250 |
Huck SeedHuckleberry Seed is an American professional poker player who won the main event of the 1996 World Series of Poker.Seed grew up in Corvallis, Montana, where he attended Corvallis High School. He was a member of the 1987 Montana All-State basketball team...
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| $1,500 Ace to Five Draw |
J. J. Chun |
$93,000 |
Steve Flicker |
| $2,500 Limit Hold'em |
Mike Laing |
$212,000 |
Fred Lieberman |
| $2,500 Seven Card Stud |
Rodney H. Pardey Rodney Herm Pardey is an American professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pardey is the father of professional poker player and singer/songwriter Rodney E. Pardey....
|
$132,000 |
Alan Boston |
| $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys |
Huck SeedHuckleberry Seed is an American professional poker player who won the main event of the 1996 World Series of Poker.Seed grew up in Corvallis, Montana, where he attended Corvallis High School. He was a member of the 1987 Montana All-State basketball team...
|
$167,000 |
Lindy Chambers |
| $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em |
T. J. CloutierThomas James Cloutier is a professional poker player from Albany, California. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006.-Early years:...
|
$163,000 |
Travis Dang |
| $5,000 Seven Card Stud |
Roger Moore Roger Moore is a professional poker player.Moore grew up the son of sharecroppers. He quit school in the eighth grade and soon afterwards entered into military service. After the military he worked as a civil servant and for fun he would play poker...
|
$144,000 |
Adam Roberts |
| $2,500 No Limit Hold'em |
John Heaney |
$220,000 |
Hal Kant Hal Kant was an entertainment industry attorney who specialized in representing musical groups. He was best known for his 35 years as principal lawyer and general counsel for the Grateful Dead, a position in the group that was so strong that his business cards with the band identified his role as...
|
| $5,000 Limit Hold'em |
Erik SeidelErik Seidel is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
|
$210,000 |
Michael Davis |
| $1,000 Ladies' Seven Card Stud |
Barbara EnrightBarbara Enright is an American professional poker player, motivational speaker, and Editor-in-Chief of Woman Poker Player magazine.Enright began playing poker at home at the age of 4, playing five card draw against her older brother. She started playing in cardrooms in 1976...
|
$38,400 |
Natalie Ryke |
| Press Invitational No Limit Hold'em |
Bill Sykes |
$1,000 |
Joe Saumarez Smith |
There were 268 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament. Since this was the 25th Anniversary of the event, the winner received $1,000,000, plus his/her weight in
| Place |
Name |
Prize |
| 16th |
Mansour Matloubi Mansour Matloubi is an Iranian professional poker player.Matloubi was quite active in tournament poker in the 1990s. His win at the 1990 Main Event made him the first non-American to win that particular tournament. Matloubi also made the final table of the 1993 Main Event, finishing in fourth place...
|
$20,160 |
| 22nd |
Howard Goldfarb Howard Goldfarb is a Canadian poker player, chiefly noted as the runner-up of the 1995 World Series of Poker .At the time he was a 33-year-old land developer and businessman from Toronto. He made his first foray into poker in 1993, when he joined some friends for a game in one of Toronto's private...
|
$16,800 |
| 24th |
Bobby BaldwinBobby Baldwin is a professional poker player and casino executive.When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980 and then Phil Hellmuth in 1989 and Peter Eastgate in 2008...
|
$16,800 |
| 25th |
Yoshio Nakano Yoshio Nakano is a professional poker player and entrepreneur who resides in Long Beach, California. He has played professionally for over 20 years and is a long-time high limit poker host at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles...
|
$16,800 |
| 26th |
Annie DukeAnnie Duke is a professional poker player and author who won a bracelet in the 2004 World Series of Poker $2,000 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Event and was the winner of the 2004 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, where she earned the Winner-Take-All prize of $2,000,000-Family and...
|
$16,800 |
| 27th |
Donnacha O'Dea Donnacha "The Don" O'Dea is an Irish professional poker player. Previously he was a keen swimmer, and represented Ireland in the 1968 Olympics. He was also the first Irish swimmer to swim 100m in less than 1 minute...
|
$16,800 |