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The 2004 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....
 after Harrah's Entertainment
Harrah's Entertainment

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is a private Gambling corporation that owns and operates casinos, hotels, and six golf courses under several brands....
 purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. Harrah's announced that future WSOP tournaments will be held in a moving circuit of member casinos.

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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
Carl Nessel $40,000 Cory Pocket
$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
James Vogl $400,000 Shawn Rice
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest

Ted Forrest is an United States professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker ....
$111,440 Chad Brown
Chad Brown (poker player)

Chad Brown is an United States acting, poker player and color commentator, based in Los Angeles, California....
$1,500 Limit Hold-em Aaron Katz $234,940 Richard Gardner-Brown
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Curtis Bibb $160,000 Paul Phillips
Paul Phillips (poker player)

Paul Phillips is an United States professional poker player, although he has mostly become inactive in recent years, choosing to focus on Scrabble tournaments....
$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
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....
$155,420 Lorne Persons
$1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em Gerry Drehobl $365,900 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....
$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha Chau Giang
Chau Giang

Chau Tu Giang is an United States professional poker player of China descent, who is a three time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a three time final tablist of the World Poker Tour with over $3 million in live tournament winnings alone....
$187,920 Robert Williamson III
Robert Williamson III

Robert Williamson III is an United States professional poker player from Dallas, Texas.Williamson grew up with three sisters and his best friend, Chris Caywood in Granbury, Texas and received Bachelor of Business Administration degrees in finance and real estate from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas....
$1,500 No Limit Hold 'Em Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman

Scott Fischman is an United States professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Fischman grew up in South Jersey and moved to Las Vegas at the age of 12....
$300,000 Joe Awada
Joe Awada

Joe Awada is a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Awada moved from Lebanon to the United States in his early teenage years, working as a juggling, eventually touring with the Harlem Globetrotters....
$2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Cyndy Violette
Cyndy Violette

Cyndy Violette is an United States professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004.Cyndy often played poker with family members as a child....
$135,900 Pete Kaufman
$2,500 Limit Hold'Em Eli Balas
Eli Balas

Eli Balas is an United States professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Balas has won 3 bracelets at the World Series of Poker ....
$174,440 Steve Shkolnik
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E. Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman

Scott Fischman is an United States professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Fischman grew up in South Jersey and moved to Las Vegas at the age of 12....
$100,200 John Cover
$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller (card player)

Thomas Keller is an United States professional poker player, residing in Scottsdale, Arizona, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada. He is the brother of Shawn "Lightning" Keller....
$382,020 Martin De Knijff
Martin De Knijff

Martin de Knijff is a professional sports bettor and high-stakes poker player from Gothenburg, Sweden.His last name is from his Netherlands father....
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Hasan Habib
Hasan Habib

Hasan Habib is a Pakistani American professional poker player.During his early years in Pakistan, Habib was the Pakistan 14-and-under National Tennis Champion....
$93,060 Tommy Polk
$2,000 Limit Hold' Em 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....
$169,100 Chris Hinchcliffe
$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....
Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein

Barry Greenstein is a professional poker player. He was exposed to poker at a young age by his father. After graduating from Bogan High School, he earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
$296,200 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....
$1,500 Limit Hold 'Em Shootout 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....
$110,180 Kevin Song
Kevin Song

Kevin Song is a Korean-American professional poker player from Hacienda Heights, California who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in poker tournaments since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are over 20 cashes at the World Series of Poker including winning the 1997 World Series...
$1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout 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....
$180,000 Kirill Gerasimov
Kirill Gerasimov

Kirill Gerasimov is a Russian professional poker player.Gerasimov worked as an insurance salesman in Moscow, and started entering poker tournaments throughout Europe in 2001....
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 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....
$137,860 Ron Graham
$1,000 Ladies Limit Hold 'Em Crystal Doan $58,530 Millie Shiu
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari

Antonio Esfandiari is a professional poker player.When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California.At the age of 19, he changed his name to Antonio which was adopted from living in a Mexican American community in San Jose, and became a professional magician....
$58,530 Phi Nguyen
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Brett Jungblut
Brett Jungblut

Brett Jungblut is an United States professional poker player, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey and based in La Jolla, California. With only one class left to graduate college, Jungblut left school to pursue his dream as a professional poker player....
$187,720 John Cernuto
John Cernuto

"Miami" John Cernuto is an United States professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, specialising in Omaha hold'em hi-lo events....
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest

Ted Forrest is an United States professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker ....
$300,300 Susan Pritchett
$5,000 Seven Card Stud Joe Awada
Joe Awada

Joe Awada is a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Awada moved from Lebanon to the United States in his early teenage years, working as a juggling, eventually touring with the Harlem Globetrotters....
$221,000 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....
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Gavin Griffin
Gavin Griffin

Gavin Griffin is an United States professional poker player. He attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Starting as a internet poker player he successfully made the transition to live poker, and broke Allen Cunningham's record as the youngest person ever to win a World Series of Poker title in 2004 World Series of Poker,...
$270,420 Garry Bush
Garry Bush

Garry "The Whacker" Bush is an England professional poker player based in. London].Bush started off as a cash game player in North London, but turned to tournaments in the late 1990s....
$1,500 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....
T. J. Cloutier
T. J. Cloutier

Thomas James Cloutier is a professional poker player from Albany, California. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006....
$90,500 Dutch Boyd
$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple 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....
Farzad Bonyadi
Farzad Bonyadi

Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi is an Iranian professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo, California, who has won 3 World Series of Poker bracelets....
$86,980 Trung Ly
$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Gary Gibbs $136,960 Carl McKelvey
$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em John Hennigan
John Hennigan (poker player)

John Hennigan is an United States professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has in his career has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
$325,360 An Tran
An Tran

An Tran is a Vietnamese-United States professional poker player, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Tran began playing poker in the mid-1970s and first finished poker jargon of a World Series of Poker event in 1989 World Series of Poker in the $2,000 betting hold'em event....
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mike Sica $503,160 John Kabbaj
John Kabbaj

Jean-Michel "Large" Kabbaj is an England professional poker player, referred to by The Hendon Mob as their unofficial fifth member....
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Ted Lawson $500,000 Lee Watkinson
Lee Watkinson

Lee Watkinson is an United States professional poker player, originally from Longbranch, Washington.At the 2004 World Series of Poker , Watkinson finished 2nd in the $5,000 betting Omaha hold 'em event....
$1,500 A-5 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....
Norm Ketchum $84,500 Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein

Barry Greenstein is a professional poker player. He was exposed to poker at a young age by his father. After graduating from Bogan High School, he earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
Media Charity Event Michael Kaplan $10,000 (charity)


e were 2,576 entrants to the main event.






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The 2004 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....
 after Harrah's Entertainment
Harrah's Entertainment

Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. is a private Gambling corporation that owns and operates casinos, hotels, and six golf courses under several brands....
 purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. Harrah's announced that future WSOP tournaments will be held in a moving circuit of member casinos.

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
Carl Nessel $40,000 Cory Pocket
$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
James Vogl $400,000 Shawn Rice
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest

Ted Forrest is an United States professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker ....
$111,440 Chad Brown
Chad Brown (poker player)

Chad Brown is an United States acting, poker player and color commentator, based in Los Angeles, California....
$1,500 Limit Hold-em Aaron Katz $234,940 Richard Gardner-Brown
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Curtis Bibb $160,000 Paul Phillips
Paul Phillips (poker player)

Paul Phillips is an United States professional poker player, although he has mostly become inactive in recent years, choosing to focus on Scrabble tournaments....
$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
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....
$155,420 Lorne Persons
$1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em Gerry Drehobl $365,900 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....
$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha Chau Giang
Chau Giang

Chau Tu Giang is an United States professional poker player of China descent, who is a three time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a three time final tablist of the World Poker Tour with over $3 million in live tournament winnings alone....
$187,920 Robert Williamson III
Robert Williamson III

Robert Williamson III is an United States professional poker player from Dallas, Texas.Williamson grew up with three sisters and his best friend, Chris Caywood in Granbury, Texas and received Bachelor of Business Administration degrees in finance and real estate from Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas....
$1,500 No Limit Hold 'Em Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman

Scott Fischman is an United States professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Fischman grew up in South Jersey and moved to Las Vegas at the age of 12....
$300,000 Joe Awada
Joe Awada

Joe Awada is a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Awada moved from Lebanon to the United States in his early teenage years, working as a juggling, eventually touring with the Harlem Globetrotters....
$2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Cyndy Violette
Cyndy Violette

Cyndy Violette is an United States professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004.Cyndy often played poker with family members as a child....
$135,900 Pete Kaufman
$2,500 Limit Hold'Em Eli Balas
Eli Balas

Eli Balas is an United States professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Balas has won 3 bracelets at the World Series of Poker ....
$174,440 Steve Shkolnik
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E. Scott Fischman
Scott Fischman

Scott Fischman is an United States professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Fischman grew up in South Jersey and moved to Las Vegas at the age of 12....
$100,200 John Cover
$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller (card player)

Thomas Keller is an United States professional poker player, residing in Scottsdale, Arizona, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada. He is the brother of Shawn "Lightning" Keller....
$382,020 Martin De Knijff
Martin De Knijff

Martin de Knijff is a professional sports bettor and high-stakes poker player from Gothenburg, Sweden.His last name is from his Netherlands father....
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Hasan Habib
Hasan Habib

Hasan Habib is a Pakistani American professional poker player.During his early years in Pakistan, Habib was the Pakistan 14-and-under National Tennis Champion....
$93,060 Tommy Polk
$2,000 Limit Hold' Em 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....
$169,100 Chris Hinchcliffe
$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....
Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein

Barry Greenstein is a professional poker player. He was exposed to poker at a young age by his father. After graduating from Bogan High School, he earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
$296,200 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....
$1,500 Limit Hold 'Em Shootout 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....
$110,180 Kevin Song
Kevin Song

Kevin Song is a Korean-American professional poker player from Hacienda Heights, California who started playing poker since 1980 and began playing in poker tournaments since 1994 where he has cashed in many of them throughout his poker career, among them are over 20 cashes at the World Series of Poker including winning the 1997 World Series...
$1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout 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....
$180,000 Kirill Gerasimov
Kirill Gerasimov

Kirill Gerasimov is a Russian professional poker player.Gerasimov worked as an insurance salesman in Moscow, and started entering poker tournaments throughout Europe in 2001....
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 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....
$137,860 Ron Graham
$1,000 Ladies Limit Hold 'Em Crystal Doan $58,530 Millie Shiu
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em Antonio Esfandiari
Antonio Esfandiari

Antonio Esfandiari is a professional poker player.When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California.At the age of 19, he changed his name to Antonio which was adopted from living in a Mexican American community in San Jose, and became a professional magician....
$58,530 Phi Nguyen
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Brett Jungblut
Brett Jungblut

Brett Jungblut is an United States professional poker player, born in Atlantic City, New Jersey and based in La Jolla, California. With only one class left to graduate college, Jungblut left school to pursue his dream as a professional poker player....
$187,720 John Cernuto
John Cernuto

"Miami" John Cernuto is an United States professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, specialising in Omaha hold'em hi-lo events....
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Ted Forrest
Ted Forrest

Ted Forrest is an United States professional poker player, currently residing in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Forrest won three bracelets at the 1993 World Series of Poker ....
$300,300 Susan Pritchett
$5,000 Seven Card Stud Joe Awada
Joe Awada

Joe Awada is a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Awada moved from Lebanon to the United States in his early teenage years, working as a juggling, eventually touring with the Harlem Globetrotters....
$221,000 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....
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Gavin Griffin
Gavin Griffin

Gavin Griffin is an United States professional poker player. He attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. Starting as a internet poker player he successfully made the transition to live poker, and broke Allen Cunningham's record as the youngest person ever to win a World Series of Poker title in 2004 World Series of Poker,...
$270,420 Garry Bush
Garry Bush

Garry "The Whacker" Bush is an England professional poker player based in. London].Bush started off as a cash game player in North London, but turned to tournaments in the late 1990s....
$1,500 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....
T. J. Cloutier
T. J. Cloutier

Thomas James Cloutier is a professional poker player from Albany, California. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2006....
$90,500 Dutch Boyd
$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple 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....
Farzad Bonyadi
Farzad Bonyadi

Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi is an Iranian professional poker player based in Aliso Viejo, California, who has won 3 World Series of Poker bracelets....
$86,980 Trung Ly
$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Gary Gibbs $136,960 Carl McKelvey
$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em John Hennigan
John Hennigan (poker player)

John Hennigan is an United States professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who has in his career has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title....
$325,360 An Tran
An Tran

An Tran is a Vietnamese-United States professional poker player, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada.Tran began playing poker in the mid-1970s and first finished poker jargon of a World Series of Poker event in 1989 World Series of Poker in the $2,000 betting hold'em event....
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mike Sica $503,160 John Kabbaj
John Kabbaj

Jean-Michel "Large" Kabbaj is an England professional poker player, referred to by The Hendon Mob as their unofficial fifth member....
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Ted Lawson $500,000 Lee Watkinson
Lee Watkinson

Lee Watkinson is an United States professional poker player, originally from Longbranch, Washington.At the 2004 World Series of Poker , Watkinson finished 2nd in the $5,000 betting Omaha hold 'em event....
$1,500 A-5 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....
Norm Ketchum $84,500 Barry Greenstein
Barry Greenstein

Barry Greenstein is a professional poker player. He was exposed to poker at a young age by his father. After graduating from Bogan High School, he earned a bachelor degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
Media Charity Event Michael Kaplan $10,000 (charity)


Main Event

There were 2,576 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 Greg Raymer
Greg Raymer

Gregory Raymer is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker main event, and for the opaque hologram sunglasses that he sometimes wears during hands....
$5,000,000
2nd David Williams
David Williams (card player)

David Anthony Williams is a professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player. He was a student at Princeton University and studied Economics at Southern Methodist University and attended the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, an early entrance college program....
$3,500,000
3rd Josh Arieh
Josh Arieh

Josh Arieh is an United States professional poker player. Arieh has been competing in poker competitions since 1999. He is married to Angela Arieh, with whom he has three children....
$2,500,000
4th 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....
$1,500,000
5th Glenn Hughes $1,100,000
6th Al Krux
Al Krux

Al Krux is an United States professional poker player now based near Syracuse, New York, New York.Before turning to poker, Krux was a diamond merchant....
$800,000
7th Matt Dean $675,000
8th Mattias Andersson $575,000
9th Michael McClain $470,400


Other High Finishes

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

Place Name Prize
10th 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....
$373,000
15th 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....
$275,000
17th Gary Jones
Gary Jones (poker player)

Gary Herbert "The Choirboy" Jones is a professional poker player from Stafford, Staffordshire, England. He is also a regular color commentator on The Poker Channel....
$175,000
18th Harry Demetriou
Harry Demetriou

Charidimos Demetriou is a United Kingdom professional poker player....
$147,500
26th 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....
$120,000


See also

  • World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions
    World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions

    The World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions was an invitational freeroll poker event. Wins in this event do not count as official World Series of Poker bracelet, but the winner receives a large trophy in the shape of the official World Series of Poker logo....