This edition was historically notable for two reasons. It was the first WSOP in which
were installed to allow broadcasters (on tape delay) to show the players' hole cards, although only for the Main Event (today, the cameras are used at most WSOP events). It was also the last WSOP before the
| Event |
Winner |
Prize |
Runner-up |
$500 Casino Employee's LimitIn the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing...
Hold'em |
David Warga David Warga poker dealer who won a bracelet in the 2002 Casino Employees Championship event at the World Series of Poker and then at the 2010 World Series of Poker won his second bracelet in an open event in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better....
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$47,300 |
Leon Wheeler |
| $2,000 Limit Hold'em |
Mike Majerus |
$407,120 |
David ChiuDavid Chiu is a Chinese American professional poker player, based in Rowland Heights, California, who has won four World Series of Poker bracelets. He is also the winner of the 2008 World Poker Tour's WPT World Championship, and the first winner of the Tournament of Champions of Poker.Chiu was a...
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| $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split |
Perry FriedmanPerry Friedman is an American professional poker player who won the 2002 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event, a founding member of the Tiltboys and is a Full Tilt Professional.- World Series of Poker :...
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$176,860 |
Greg Mascio |
$2,000 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 up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing...
Hold'em |
Layne FlackLayne Flack is an American professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.He met up with Johnny Chan who helped him improve his game and, following a big loss, encouraged Flack to ensure he had a lot of rest before a tournament...
|
$303,880 |
Tom Jacobs |
| $1,500 Seven Card Stud |
Phil Ivey Phillip Dennis "Phil" Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables...
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$132,000 |
Toto LeonidasAlfredo C. "Toto" Leonidas is an American Poker player with over $3,200,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings. His 24 cashes as the WSOP account for $812,218 of those winnings....
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| $1,500 Limit Omaha |
John Cernuto "Miami" John Cernuto is an American professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, specialising in Omaha hi-lo events.-Early years:...
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$73,320 |
Randy Holland Randy Holland is a Canadian poker player.Holland has won two World Series of Poker titles: razz in 1996 and seven card stud high low in 2000. In addition he was won other events, including at the Bicycle Casino, Commerce Casino and Foxwoods casino....
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| $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split |
Paul ClarkPaul "Eskimo" Clark is an American professional poker player, living in Las Vegas, Nevada.-Life and career:Before turning to poker, Paul Clark was a veteran of the Vietnam War, where he worked as a medic....
|
$125,200 |
Andrew Prock |
$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 up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing...
Omaha |
Jack Duncan |
$192,560 |
Lindy Chambers |
| $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Gold Bracelet Match Play |
Johnny ChanJohnny Chan rather than his Chinese birth name. born in Guangzhou, China in 1957) is a Chinese American professional poker player. He has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, including 1987 and 1988 World Series of Poker main events consecutively....
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$34,000 |
Phil Hellmuth Jr.Phil Hellmuth 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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| $2,000 H.O.R.S.E. |
John HenniganJohn Hennigan is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in his career, has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
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$117,320 |
Ben Tang |
| $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em |
Jay Sipelstein |
$150,240 |
Barny BoatmanBarny M. P. Boatman , is an English professional poker player and the oldest member of the poker-playing foursome known as The Hendon Mob...
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| $2,500 Seven Card Stud |
Dan Torla |
$115,600 |
Bill Gibbs |
| $3,000 Limit Hold'em |
John Hom |
$174,840 |
Benny Wan |
$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 possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against the player for low, and the ace usually plays low...
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Billy BaxterWilliam E. Baxter, Jr. is an American professional poker player and sports bettor. He has won numerous tournament titles in his career as a professional poker player, including seven World Series of Poker bracelets....
|
$64,860 |
Chico Flynn |
| $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha |
Jan Vang Sørensen |
$185,000 |
Brent Carter Brent R. Carter is an American professional poker player from Oak Park, Illinois who has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. He now lives in Treasure Island, Florida.-Poker Career:...
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| $2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo |
Phil Ivey |
$118,440 |
Sirous Baghchehsaraie |
| $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em |
Fred Berger |
$197,400 |
Chris FergusonChristopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. He has won five World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. On September 20, 2011, the U.S...
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| $1,500 Ace to Five Lowball Some forms of poker, often called lowball, sometimes called low poker, reward poor poker hands . There are four common variations on this idea, differing in whether aces are treated as high cards or low cards, and whether or not straights and flushes are used. The methods are:* Ace-to-five low:...
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Thor HansenThor Harald Hansen is a professional poker player. He was recruited by Larry Flynt to play poker for him after Hansen played against him in Las Vegas in the mid 1990s. He has two WSOP braclets, one from the 1988 WSOP in Seven-card stud, and then later in Deuce to Seven Lowball in the 2002 WSOP...
|
$62,600 |
Brian Nadell |
| $1,500 No Limit Hold'em |
Layne Flack |
$268,020 |
Johnny Chan |
| $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split |
Eddie Fishman |
$135,360 |
Doug Saab |
| $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em |
John McIntosh |
$177,380 |
Mel Weiner |
| $5,000 Seven Card Stud |
Qushqar Morad |
$172,960 |
Steven Banks |
| $2,000 S.H.O.E. |
Phil Ivey |
$107,540 |
Diego Cordovez Diego Cordovez is an American poker player. He has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, and he has 16 WSOP cash finishes including 7 final tables. He has won over $1.4 Million in career tournament winnings...
|
| $5,000 Limit Hold'em |
Jennifer HarmanJennifer C. Harman-Traniello is an American professional poker player.-Early life:Harman was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She started playing poker in 1972 at the age of eight...
|
$221,440 |
Brian Green |
| $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout |
Joel Chaseman |
$96,400 |
Gene Timberlake |
| $1,000 Ladies' Championship |
Catherine Brown |
$39,880 |
Marie Sohn |
| $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha |
Robert Williamson IIIRobert Williamson III is an American poker player from Dallas, Texas.Williamson grew up with three sisters and his best friend, Chris Caywood in Granbury, Texas and received B.B.A. degrees in finance and real estate from Angelo State University in San Angelo.He began playing aged 10 or 11, after...
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$201,160 |
Patrick BruelPatrick Bruel is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player of Algerian Jewish descent.-Biography:...
|
| $1,500 Limit Hold'em |
Meng La |
$190,920 |
Steve Kaufman |
| $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split |
Mike MatusowMichael Matusow is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada. Matusow's nickname of "The Mouth" reflects his reputation for trash-talking at the poker table...
|
$148,520 |
Daniel NegreanuDaniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player. He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is currently ranked second in the all-time career earnings list and is the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge. He plays a big...
|
| $3,000 No Limit Hold'em |
Randal Heeb |
$367,240 |
Sherman Burry |
| $2,000 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Stud |
Dan HeimillerDaniel Heimiller in is an American professional poker player who won the ½ Hold'em - ½ Seven-Card Stud event at the 2002 World Series of Poker. His total live tournament winnings exceed $2.2 million....
|
$108,300 |
Ram Vaswani Ram Vaswani is an English professional snooker player, turned professional poker player and the youngest member of The Hendon Mob...
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| $5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw A poker player is drawing if they have 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, they are drawing to...
No Limit |
Allen CunninghamAllen Cunningham is an American professional poker player.Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally. At the age of 18, he began playing at in Indian casinos...
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$160,200 |
O'Neil LongsonO'Neil Longson is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker.-Poker career:...
|
| $1,000 Seniors' No Limit Championship |
Bill Swan |
$134,000 |
Mike Sexton Michael Richard Sexton is an American professional poker player and commentator. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.-Early years:...
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| $1,500 Triple Draw Lowball Ace to Five |
John JuandaJohnson "John" Juanda is a Chinese Indonesian professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California. Juanda lives in Los Angeles.-Personal life:...
|
$49,620 |
Paul PhillipsPaul Phillips is an American entrepreneur and poker player.-Programming:Phillips wrote the Boa web server while attending the University of California, San Diego, but no longer maintains it...
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There were 631 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament (by prize pool) ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time.
Note: Phil Hellmuth, as part of ESPN's broadcast team, during the first hour of their final table coverage said he would shave his head if Robert Varkonyi won the tournament. At the conclusion of the tournament, Phil is seen having his head shaved.