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The 2003 World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe
Binion's Horseshoe

Binion's Horseshoe, also known as the Horseshoe Casino or simply The Horseshoe, was a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada on what is now the Fremont Street Experience....
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Event Winner Prize Runner-up
$500 Casino Employee's Limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Hold'em
David Lukaszewski $35,800 Paul Trieglaff
$2,000 Limit Hold'em Mohammed Ibrahim $290,420 Jon Brody
$1,500 Seven-card stud
Seven-card stud

Seven-card stud is a List of poker variants of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country....
Toto Leonidas
Toto Leonidas

Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas is an United States Poker player with over $2,600,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings.In the 2003 World Series of Poker, Leonidas won a World Series of Poker bracelet playing seven-card stud....
$98,760 Rallis Peter Tanagiotias
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
$123,680 Barry Bindelglass
$2,000 No Limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Hold'em
Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan

"Minneapolis" Jim Meehan is an United States professional poker player from Burnsville, Minnesota.Meehan began playing poker in the 1960s, and began playing poker tournaments regularly in 1997, where he had a 2nd place finish in the $3,000 betting hold'em event at the World Series of Poker ....
$280,100 Guy Calvert
$1,500 Pot Limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Hold'em
Prahlad Friedman
Prahlad Friedman

Prahlad Friedman is an United States professional poker player from Los Angeles, California, California.Friedman won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 betting hold'em event earning him $109,400....
$109,400 Bernd Rygol
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Minh Nguyen
Minh Nguyen

Minh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American professional poker player is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, residing in Bell Gardens, California, California....
$106,020 Bob Mangino
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel

Erik Seidel is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
$146,100 Men Nguyen
Men Nguyen

Men "The Master" Nguy?n is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player....
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E. Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson

Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
$84,080 Brian Haveson
$2,000 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Seven Card Stud Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
$66,220 Diego Cordovez
$2,500 No Limit Hold'em Phi Nguyen
Phi Nguyen

Hung "Phi" Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player who is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner with multiple live tournament results adding up to over $1.5 million in career earnings....
$222,800 Jim Miller
$2,500 Limit Hold'em Phil Hellmuth Jr
Phil Hellmuth

Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
$171,400 Young Phan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Michael Saltzburg $95,580 Mimi Tran
Mimi Tran

Thithi Tran is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player....
$5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw
Draw (poker)

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....
O'Neil Longson
O'Neil Longson

O'Neil Longson is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Longson first finished poker jargon#i at the World Series of Poker in 1991 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 betting hold'em event, where he finished 2nd to Brent Carter....
$147,680 Allen Cunningham
Allen Cunningham

Allen Cunningham is an United States professional poker player. Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally....
$5,000 No Limit Hold'em Johnny Chan
Johnny Chan (poker player)

Johnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player....
$224,400 Surinder Sunar
Surinder Sunar

Surinder Sunar is a England professional poker player based in Wolverhampton, who gained fame as a three-time finalist in the Late Night Poker television series....
$1,500 Limit Omaha Eddy Scharf
Eddy Scharf

Eduard "Eddy" Scharf is a Germany professional poker player best known for winning two World Series of Poker bracelets.Scharf who still maintains his job as a professional airline pilot, began playing poker professionally in 1995....
$63,600 Dave Colclough
Dave Colclough

David E. "El Blondie" Colclough is a Wales professional poker player, now living in Birmingham, England....
$1,500 Limit Hold'em John Arrage $178,600 Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert

Kathleen H. Liebert is an United States professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000....
$5,000 Seven-Card Razz
Razz (poker)

Razz 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....
Huck Seed
Huck Seed

Huckleberry Seed is an United States 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....
$71,500 Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

Phillip D. Ivey is an United States professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times....
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Layne Flack
Layne Flack

Layne Flack is an United States professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game whilst working at a casino....
$119,260 Men Nguyen
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em Mickey Appleman
Mickey Appleman

Mickey Appleman is an United States professional poker player and sports betting, now living in Fort Lee, New Jersey, New Jersey.Appleman grew up in Long Island, where he was both a strong sportsman and academic, eventually receiving a MBA in statistics....
$147,280 Brian Plona
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em Ron Rose
Ron Rose

Ron Rose is an United States poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada, is a two time World Poker Tour Champion with a World Series of Poker bracelet....
$130,060 Ron McMillan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split John Juanda
John Juanda

Johnson "John" Juanda is an United States professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California.Juanda lives in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indonesia but is Chinese Indonesian....
$130,200 Shahram Sheikhan
Shahram Sheikhan

Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan is a professional poker player who currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada with his wife and daughter. Sheikhan is the owner of a retail chain of tobacco and tattoo stores....
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Amir Vahedi
Amir Vahedi

Amir Vahedi is an Iranian peoples professional poker player. Born in Tehran, Iran he currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California.Vahedi was named no limit Texas hold 'em player of the year in 2001 and was second to Men Nguyen for Card Player 2003 player of the year....
$270,000 Cleve Haley
$2,000 S.H.O.E. Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles....
$100,440 Jim Pechac
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Johnny Chan $158,100 Emmanuel Sebag
$1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout Layne Flack
Layne Flack

Layne Flack is an United States professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game whilst working at a casino....
$120,000 Annie Duke
Annie Duke

Annie Duke is a professional poker player and author who won a WSOP bracelet 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-takes-all prize of $2,000,000....
$3,000 Limit Hold'em Tom Jacobs $163,000 Jan Sjavik
$1,000 Ladies' 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Stud Barb Rugolo $40,700 J. J. Liu
J. J. Liu

Joanne Jishung Liu is a professional poker player from Palo Alto, California . She is the highest placing female in a World Poker Tour Championship event, finishing runner-up to Ted Forrest at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars in 2007....
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Frankie O'Dell
Frankie O'Dell

Frankie O'Dell is an United States professional poker player residing in Long Beach, California. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelet in Omaha hold'em....
$133,760 Bill Schonsheck
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em Charles Keith Lehr $225,040 Chris Ferguson
$5,000 Seven Card Stud Men Nguyen $178,560 Mel Judah
Mel Judah

Mel Judah is an Australian professional poker player, also known as "The Silver Fox" . He learned poker at the age of 14 by watching his father play 5-card draw....
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em Phil Hellmuth Jr $410,860 Daniel Negreanu
$2,500 Pot Limit Omaha John Juanda $203,840 O'Neil Longson
$5,000 Limit Hold'em Juan Carlos Mortensen
Carlos Mortensen

Juan Carlos Mortensen is a professional poker player and the only Hispanic Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker. Mortensen is known for his loose play, bluffing tactics, and interesting chip-stacking style....
$251,680 Mark Gregorich
$1,500 Ace to Five Triple Draw Lowball
Lowball (poker)

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 Rank of hands #Straights and Rank of hands #Flushes are used....
Men Nguyen $43,520 Charles Keith Lehr


e were 839 entrants to the main event.






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The 2003 World Series of Poker
World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker is the "the oldest, largest, most prestigious, and most media-hyped gaming competition in the world". It is held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada....
 (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe
Binion's Horseshoe

Binion's Horseshoe, also known as the Horseshoe Casino or simply The Horseshoe, was a hotel and casino located in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada on what is now the Fremont Street Experience....
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Preliminary events

Event Winner Prize Runner-up
$500 Casino Employee's Limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Hold'em
David Lukaszewski $35,800 Paul Trieglaff
$2,000 Limit Hold'em Mohammed Ibrahim $290,420 Jon Brody
$1,500 Seven-card stud
Seven-card stud

Seven-card stud is a List of poker variants of stud poker. Until the recent increase in popularity of Texas hold 'em, seven-card stud was the most popular poker variant in home games across the United States, and in casinos in the eastern part of the country....
Toto Leonidas
Toto Leonidas

Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas is an United States Poker player with over $2,600,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings.In the 2003 World Series of Poker, Leonidas won a World Series of Poker bracelet playing seven-card stud....
$98,760 Rallis Peter Tanagiotias
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
$123,680 Barry Bindelglass
$2,000 No Limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Hold'em
Jim Meehan
Jim Meehan

"Minneapolis" Jim Meehan is an United States professional poker player from Burnsville, Minnesota.Meehan began playing poker in the 1960s, and began playing poker tournaments regularly in 1997, where he had a 2nd place finish in the $3,000 betting hold'em event at the World Series of Poker ....
$280,100 Guy Calvert
$1,500 Pot Limit
Betting (poker)

In the game of poker, the play largely centers around the act of gambling, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing....
 Hold'em
Prahlad Friedman
Prahlad Friedman

Prahlad Friedman is an United States professional poker player from Los Angeles, California, California.Friedman won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 betting hold'em event earning him $109,400....
$109,400 Bernd Rygol
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Minh Nguyen
Minh Nguyen

Minh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American professional poker player is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, residing in Bell Gardens, California, California....
$106,020 Bob Mangino
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Erik Seidel
Erik Seidel

Erik Seidel is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada with eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
$146,100 Men Nguyen
Men Nguyen

Men "The Master" Nguy?n is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player....
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E. Doyle Brunson
Doyle Brunson

Doyle F. Brunson is an iconic American professional poker player who has played professionally for over 50 years. He is the first two-time World Series of Poker main event champion to win consecutively, a Poker Hall of Fame inductee, and the author of several highly influential books on poker....
$84,080 Brian Haveson
$2,000 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Seven Card Stud Chris Ferguson
Chris Ferguson

Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. In his career he has won five World Series of Poker bracelets, including the bracelet for the 2000 World Series of Poker, and is the winner of the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship....
$66,220 Diego Cordovez
$2,500 No Limit Hold'em Phi Nguyen
Phi Nguyen

Hung "Phi" Nguyen is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player who is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner with multiple live tournament results adding up to over $1.5 million in career earnings....
$222,800 Jim Miller
$2,500 Limit Hold'em Phil Hellmuth Jr
Phil Hellmuth

Phillip J. Hellmuth, Jr. is an United States professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his "poker brat" personality....
$171,400 Young Phan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Michael Saltzburg $95,580 Mimi Tran
Mimi Tran

Thithi Tran is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player....
$5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw
Draw (poker)

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....
O'Neil Longson
O'Neil Longson

O'Neil Longson is an United States professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Longson first finished poker jargon#i at the World Series of Poker in 1991 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 betting hold'em event, where he finished 2nd to Brent Carter....
$147,680 Allen Cunningham
Allen Cunningham

Allen Cunningham is an United States professional poker player. Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally....
$5,000 No Limit Hold'em Johnny Chan
Johnny Chan (poker player)

Johnny Chan , born in Guangzhou , People's Republic of China in 1957, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a professional poker player....
$224,400 Surinder Sunar
Surinder Sunar

Surinder Sunar is a England professional poker player based in Wolverhampton, who gained fame as a three-time finalist in the Late Night Poker television series....
$1,500 Limit Omaha Eddy Scharf
Eddy Scharf

Eduard "Eddy" Scharf is a Germany professional poker player best known for winning two World Series of Poker bracelets.Scharf who still maintains his job as a professional airline pilot, began playing poker professionally in 1995....
$63,600 Dave Colclough
Dave Colclough

David E. "El Blondie" Colclough is a Wales professional poker player, now living in Birmingham, England....
$1,500 Limit Hold'em John Arrage $178,600 Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert

Kathleen H. Liebert is an United States professional poker player. She is the first woman ever to win a tournament with a first prize of $1,000,000....
$5,000 Seven-Card Razz
Razz (poker)

Razz 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....
Huck Seed
Huck Seed

Huckleberry Seed is an United States 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....
$71,500 Phil Ivey
Phil Ivey

Phillip D. Ivey is an United States professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker bracelets and has a World Poker Tour title, making the final table there a record eight times....
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Layne Flack
Layne Flack

Layne Flack is an United States professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game whilst working at a casino....
$119,260 Men Nguyen
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em Mickey Appleman
Mickey Appleman

Mickey Appleman is an United States professional poker player and sports betting, now living in Fort Lee, New Jersey, New Jersey.Appleman grew up in Long Island, where he was both a strong sportsman and academic, eventually receiving a MBA in statistics....
$147,280 Brian Plona
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em Ron Rose
Ron Rose

Ron Rose is an United States poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada, is a two time World Poker Tour Champion with a World Series of Poker bracelet....
$130,060 Ron McMillan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split John Juanda
John Juanda

Johnson "John" Juanda is an United States professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California.Juanda lives in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Indonesia but is Chinese Indonesian....
$130,200 Shahram Sheikhan
Shahram Sheikhan

Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan is a professional poker player who currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada with his wife and daughter. Sheikhan is the owner of a retail chain of tobacco and tattoo stores....
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Amir Vahedi
Amir Vahedi

Amir Vahedi is an Iranian peoples professional poker player. Born in Tehran, Iran he currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California.Vahedi was named no limit Texas hold 'em player of the year in 2001 and was second to Men Nguyen for Card Player 2003 player of the year....
$270,000 Cleve Haley
$2,000 S.H.O.E. Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu

Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles....
$100,440 Jim Pechac
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Johnny Chan $158,100 Emmanuel Sebag
$1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout Layne Flack
Layne Flack

Layne Flack is an United States professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.Flack started playing cards with his grandparents, but became engrossed in the game whilst working at a casino....
$120,000 Annie Duke
Annie Duke

Annie Duke is a professional poker player and author who won a WSOP bracelet 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-takes-all prize of $2,000,000....
$3,000 Limit Hold'em Tom Jacobs $163,000 Jan Sjavik
$1,000 Ladies' 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Stud Barb Rugolo $40,700 J. J. Liu
J. J. Liu

Joanne Jishung Liu is a professional poker player from Palo Alto, California . She is the highest placing female in a World Poker Tour Championship event, finishing runner-up to Ted Forrest at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars in 2007....
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Frankie O'Dell
Frankie O'Dell

Frankie O'Dell is an United States professional poker player residing in Long Beach, California. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelet in Omaha hold'em....
$133,760 Bill Schonsheck
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em Charles Keith Lehr $225,040 Chris Ferguson
$5,000 Seven Card Stud Men Nguyen $178,560 Mel Judah
Mel Judah

Mel Judah is an Australian professional poker player, also known as "The Silver Fox" . He learned poker at the age of 14 by watching his father play 5-card draw....
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em Phil Hellmuth Jr $410,860 Daniel Negreanu
$2,500 Pot Limit Omaha John Juanda $203,840 O'Neil Longson
$5,000 Limit Hold'em Juan Carlos Mortensen
Carlos Mortensen

Juan Carlos Mortensen is a professional poker player and the only Hispanic Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker. Mortensen is known for his loose play, bluffing tactics, and interesting chip-stacking style....
$251,680 Mark Gregorich
$1,500 Ace to Five Triple Draw Lowball
Lowball (poker)

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 Rank of hands #Straights and Rank of hands #Flushes are used....
Men Nguyen $43,520 Charles Keith Lehr


Main Event

There were 839 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time. Many entrants, including the overall winner, won their seat in online poker tournaments.

Final table

Place Name Prize
1st Chris Moneymaker
Chris Moneymaker

Christopher Bryan Moneymaker is an United States poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker . His victory is generally credited for being one of the main catalysts for the poker boom in the years following his win....
$2,500,000
2nd Sam Farha
Sam Farha

Ihsan Farha is a professional poker player. He currently lives in Houston, Texas....
$1,300,000
3rd Dan Harrington
Dan Harrington

Dan Harrington is a professional poker player. Harrington chose his own nickname "Action Dan" even though he is known for being a tight conservative player....
$650,000
4th Jason Lester
Jason Lester

Jason Lester is a professional poker player who has lived in New York City, Los Angeles and Miami. He is also an exceptional backgammon player and has won many tournaments in the past, but now he focuses on poker....
$440,000
5th Tomer Benvenisti $320,000
6th Amir Vahedi
Amir Vahedi

Amir Vahedi is an Iranian peoples professional poker player. Born in Tehran, Iran he currently resides in Sherman Oaks, California.Vahedi was named no limit Texas hold 'em player of the year in 2001 and was second to Men Nguyen for Card Player 2003 player of the year....
$250,000
7th Young Pak $200,000
8th David Grey
David Grey

David Grey is an United States professional poker player from Henderson, Nevada.Grey is best known as a cash-game player, but he also has several notable poker tournament wins to his name....
$160,000
9th David Singer
David Singer (poker player)

David Singer is a professional poker player.Singer is a former environmental lawyer who worked on issues and lawsuits related to cleaning up the Long Island Sound for a non-profit organization....
$120,000


Other high finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place Name Prize
10th Phil Ivey $82,700
11th Minh Nguyen
Minh Nguyen

Minh Nguyen is a Vietnamese American professional poker player is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, residing in Bell Gardens, California, California....
$80,000
12th Dutch Boyd $80,000
13th Kassem "Freddy" Deeb $65,000
14th Marcel Lüske
Marcel Lüske

Marcel L?ske is a professional poker player from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With the growing popularity of televised poker he has become a recognized celebrity, with his trademark style of wearing upside-down sunglasses, singing during play, and always wearing suits in an era when most players dress casually....
$65,000
15th Bruno Fitoussi
Bruno Fitoussi

Bruno Fitoussi is a France professional poker player from Paris.Fitoussi's first televised poker outing was on the original poker show Late Night Poker....
$65,000
18th Scotty Nguyen
Scotty Nguyen

Thuan "Scotty" Nguy?n is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a five time World Series of Poker WSOP bracelet winner, most notably as the winner of the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event and the 2008 WSOP $50,000 H.O.R.S.E....
$55,000
19th Howard Lederer
Howard Lederer

Howard H. Lederer , is a professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author, poet Katy Lederer.Lederer's father is Richard Lederer, a writer and linguist who taught at St....
$45,000
23rd Dennis Waterman
Dennis Waterman (poker player)

Dennis Waterman is a professional poker player and writer. He has over 30 years of poker experience with reported career winnings that exceed $1,000,000....
$45,000
25th Men Nguyen $45,000
27th Phil Hellmuth Jr $45,000
29th Victor Ramdin $35,000