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World Series of Poker

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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the most prestigious series of poker tournaments in the game, held annually in Las Vegas since 1970. It grew from a single invitational event into dozens of tournaments across many poker variants, culminating each year in the No-Limit Texas Hold'em Main Event.

Facts
Founding Year
1970 1
Founding Date
1970-05-08 2
The first World Series of Poker was a small invitational gathering at Binion Horseshoe casino in Las Vegas in early May 1970; unlike every later edition, the champion was chosen by a vote of the players rather than a freeze-out tournament.
Frequency
Annual, held each summer in Las Vegas. 1
Host History
Binion Horseshoe in downtown Las Vegas hosted the World Series of Poker from 1970 to 2004. It moved to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino from 2005 to 2021, and has been held at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas properties on the Las Vegas Strip since 2022. 3
Classification
Scope
World or International 1
Frequency
Frequency (category)
Annual 1
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The Accountant Who Broke Poker: Chris Moneymaker and the 2003 Main Event

This article records tradition as it has been passed down and reported. Its sources are not yet part of the atlas's verified catalogue.

In the spring of 2003, Chris Moneymaker was a twenty seven year old accountant in Tennessee who had never played in a live poker tournament in his life. He qualified for that year's World Series of Poker Main Event the only way an amateur with no bankroll for the tournament's ten thousand dollar buy-in realistically could: through a satellite tournament on an online poker site, where a thirty nine dollar entry could, through a chain of smaller wins, turn into a seat at the real thing in Las Vegas.

The World Series of Poker itself was, by then, already the game's most prestigious event, an annual series held in Las Vegas since 1970 that had grown from a single invitational gathering into dozens of tournaments across many variants of the game, with the no-limit Texas hold'em Main Event as its culminating prize. Winning it as a complete unknown, with no live-tournament pedigree at all, was not supposed to be a realistic outcome for a satellite qualifier; it had essentially never happened.

Moneymaker won it anyway, out-lasting a field that included many of the era's most established professional players, and his own name, entirely real and not a poker nickname, became inseparable from the story itself. The scale of what followed is now called the Moneymaker effect: entries to the Main Event, which had numbered a few hundred players in earlier years, grew into the thousands within a few years of his win, driven by amateur players who had watched his run and concluded, correctly in his own case, that a small online buy-in was a real path to the game's biggest stage. Online poker sites, whose satellite tournaments had made his own seat possible, expanded rapidly in the years immediately afterward, a growth story frequently told as beginning with a single accountant's improbable run in 2003.

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Andre Akkari, Athletes
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Annie Duke, Athletes
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Ben Sulsky, Athletes
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Ben Yu, Athletes
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Bill Edler, Athletes
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Bobby Hoff, Athletes
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Won the 2003 Main Event.

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Cole South, Athletes
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Damian Salas, Athletes
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Douglas Kim, Athletes
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ElkY, Athletes
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Erik Seidel, Athletes
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Greg Raymer, Athletes
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Hal Fowler, Athletes
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Hans Lund, Athletes
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Hasan Habib, Athletes
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J. C. Tran, Athletes
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Jamie Gold, Athletes
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Jason DeWitt, Athletes
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Jeff Madsen, Athletes
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Jerry Yang, Athletes
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Joe Cada, Athletes
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Joe Hachem, Athletes
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Joe McKeehen, Athletes
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John Cernuto, Athletes
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John Cynn, Athletes
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John Juanda, Athletes
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John Racener, Athletes
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Johnny Chan, Athletes
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Johnny Moss, Athletes
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June Field, Athletes
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Kenna James, Athletes
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Kenny Tran, Athletes
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Leo Margets, Athletes
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Maria Ho, Athletes
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Mel Judah, Athletes
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Mike Matusow, Athletes
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Ron Rose, Athletes
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Stu Ungar, Athletes
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Tom McEvoy, Athletes
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Tony Ma, Athletes
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Long-Form Articles

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1. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
James McManus, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009
  • entity record, SubLabel (scope)
    SubLabel: Mind Sport World Championships
  • Features: Poker
  • Competitors Include: Chris Moneymaker
2. Wikipedia, 1970 World Series of Poker
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Sport and Games Atlas Long-Form Articles, First Edition
Sport and Games AtlasLong-Form Articles: The Accountant Who Broke Poker: Chris Moneymaker and the 2003 Main Event
Garrett Adelstein (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Garrett Adelstein, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Garrett Adelstein, Poker career
$48,487 from the 2010 WSOP Main Event
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Chance Kornuth (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Chance Kornuth, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Chance Kornuth, Poker career
Kornuth has 22 final table appearances at the WSOP with 96 total cashes as of June 2025.
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Paul Volpe (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Paul Volpe (poker player), Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Paul Volpe (poker player), Poker career
Volpe's first cash at the World Series of Poker came in 2009.
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Scott Montgomery (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Scott Montgomery (poker player), Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Scott Montgomery (poker player), Poker career
won his first bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker
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Chris Björin (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Chris Björin, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Chris Björin, Poker career
has been a regular at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) since the early 1990s
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Mark Teltscher (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Mark Teltscher, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Mark Teltscher, Poker career
In the 2023 WSOP, he finished 32nd in the Main Event.
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Matt Graham (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Matt Graham (poker player), Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Matt Graham (poker player), Poker career
won his first bracelet at the 2008 World Series of Poker
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Danielle Andersen (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Danielle Andersen, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Danielle Andersen, Poker career
she can be found playing tournaments at the World Series of Poker
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Kirk Morrison (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Kirk Morrison (poker player), Lead
Quote, Competitors Include: Kirk Morrison (poker player), Lead
winning a 1998 World Series of Poker bracelet in seven-card stud
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Tony Ma (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Tony Ma, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: Tony Ma, Poker career
At the 1996 World Series of Poker, he collected a bracelet and $236,000
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Kenny Tran (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Kenny Tran, Lead
Quote, Competitors Include: Kenny Tran, Lead
won the 2008 World Series of Poker $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship
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Erik Sagström (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Erik Sagström, Lead, fifth paragraph
Quote, Competitors Include: Erik Sagström, Lead, fifth paragraph
Whilst Sagström has competed in events of the World Series of Poker (WSOP)
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Kevin MacPhee (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Kevin MacPhee, Achievements, 2015 bracelet
Quote, Competitors Include: Kevin MacPhee, Achievements, 2015 bracelet
In June 2015, MacPhee won his first World Series of Poker bracelet by taking first place in Event #56
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Dave Colclough (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Dave Colclough, Poker career section
Quote, Competitors Include: Dave Colclough, Poker career section
His tournament results include a second at the 2000 World Series of Poker
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Bobby Hoff (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Bobby Hoff, World Series of Poker section
Quote, Competitors Include: Bobby Hoff, World Series of Poker section
In the 1979 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit hold'em main event
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Dan Heimiller (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Dan Heimiller, Career
Quote, Competitors Include: Dan Heimiller, Career
won the Limit Hold'em & Seven-Card Stud event at the 2002 World Series of Poker
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Mel Judah (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Mel Judah, Career
Quote, Competitors Include: Mel Judah, Career
He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the 1989 in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event.
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Max Pescatori (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Max Pescatori, Career
Quote, Competitors Include: Max Pescatori, Career
At the 2006 WSOP, Pescatori won the $2,500 no limit hold 'em event
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John Gale (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: John Gale (poker player), Career
Quote, Competitors Include: John Gale (poker player), Career
At the 2006 WSOP, Gale won Event #29
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Ben Sulsky (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Ben Sulsky, Career
Quote, Competitors Include: Ben Sulsky, Career
He defeated Phil Galfond at the 2013 World Series of Poker
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Kenna James (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Kenna James, Career
Quote, Competitors Include: Kenna James, Career
He has finished in the money 36 times at the World Series of Poker
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Carter Phillips (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Carter Phillips, Lead paragraph [competed-in]
Quote, Competitors Include: Carter Phillips, Lead paragraph [competed-in]
professional poker player from Charlotte, North Carolina who won the 2010 World Series of Poker $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed event
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Jason DeWitt (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Jason DeWitt, Live poker
Quote, Competitors Include: Jason DeWitt, Live poker
Jason DeWitt has appeared at seven World Series of Poker (WSOP) final tables.
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John Spadavecchia (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: John Spadavecchia, Poker career
Quote, Competitors Include: John Spadavecchia, Poker career
Spadavecchia cashed in a total of three World Series of Poker main events
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Ron Rose (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Ron Rose, World Series of Poker
Quote, Competitors Include: Ron Rose, World Series of Poker
He went on to win a WSOP bracelet in the 2003 seniors' no limit hold'em event
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Steve Paul-Ambrose (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Steve Paul-Ambrose, World Series of Poker
Quote, Competitors Include: Steve Paul-Ambrose, World Series of Poker
Paul-Ambrose's best finish to date at the WSOP is in the $5,000 World Championship Mixed Hold'em
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Cole South (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Cole South, World Series of Poker
Quote, Competitors Include: Cole South, World Series of Poker
Cole South has made an appearance in the World Series of Poker
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Andrew Cohen (poker player) (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Andrew Cohen (poker player), Career paragraph
Quote, Competitors Include: Andrew Cohen (poker player), Career paragraph
won a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2009 $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em
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Bill Edler (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Bill Edler, Career paragraph
Quote, Competitors Include: Bill Edler, Career paragraph
Edler won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2007 by claiming the $5,000 buy-in shorthanded No-Limit hold'em tournament.
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Douglas Kim (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Douglas Kim, Career paragraph
Quote, Competitors Include: Douglas Kim, Career paragraph
finished in seventh place in the 2006 World Series of Poker main event
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June Field (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: June Field, Career paragraph
Quote, Competitors Include: June Field, Career paragraph
June Field is a World Series of Poker bracelet winner, having won the 1982 $400 Ladies - Limit 7 Card Stud event.
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Wikipedia, Doyle Brunson
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Doyle Brunson, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Doyle Brunson, lead paragraph, competed-in
He is also one of only four players to have won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker multiple times, which he did in 1976 and 1977.
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Wikipedia, Johnny Chan
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Johnny Chan, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Johnny Chan, lead paragraph, competed-in
He has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, including the 1987 and 1988 World Series of Poker main events consecutively.
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Wikipedia, Phil Hellmuth
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Phil Hellmuth, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Phil Hellmuth, lead paragraph, competed-in
He is the winner of the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the Main Event of the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), and he is a 2007 inductee of the WSOP's Poker Hall of Fame.
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Wikipedia, Stu Ungar
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Stu Ungar, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Stu Ungar, lead paragraph, competed-in
Ungar is one of two people in poker history to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times.
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Wikipedia, Daniel Negreanu
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Daniel Negreanu, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Daniel Negreanu, lead paragraph, competed-in
Daniel Negreanu (; born July 26, 1974) is a Canadian professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets and two World Poker Tour (WPT) championship titles.
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Wikipedia, Phil Ivey
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Phil Ivey, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Phil Ivey, lead paragraph, competed-in
Phillip Dennis Ivey Jr. (born February 1, 1977) is an American professional poker player who has won eleven World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title, and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables.
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Wikipedia, Justin Bonomo
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Justin Bonomo, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Justin Bonomo, lead paragraph, competed-in
At the World Series of Poker, Bonomo has more than 77 cashes, made 23 final tables, and has won three bracelets and one circuit ring for more than US$18 million in winnings.
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Wikipedia: Erik Seidel
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Erik Seidel, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Erik Seidel, lead paragraph, competed-in
Erik Seidel (born November 6, 1959) is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won ten World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.
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Wikipedia: Vanessa Selbst
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Vanessa Selbst, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Vanessa Selbst, lead paragraph, competed-in
Selbst has three World Series of Poker bracelets and is the only woman to win three WSOP bracelets in open field events.
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Wikipedia, Antonio Esfandiari
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Antonio Esfandiari, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Antonio Esfandiari, lead paragraph, competed-in
In addition to appearing on several poker television shows, he has won two World Poker Tour (WPT) championships and three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets in his career, including the "Big One for One Drop" in 2012, a $1,000,000 buy-in tournament benefiting the One Drop Foundation.
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Wikipedia, Barry Greenstein
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Barry Greenstein, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Barry Greenstein, lead paragraph, competed-in
He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour.
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Wikipedia, Annie Duke
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Annie Duke, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Annie Duke, lead paragraph, competed-in
She has written a number of instructional books for poker players, including Decide to Play Great Poker and The Middle Zone, as well as an autobiography, How I Raised, Folded, Bluffed, Flirted, Cursed, and Won Millions at the World Series of Poker, in 2005.
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Wikipedia, Amarillo Slim
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Amarillo Slim, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Amarillo Slim, lead paragraph, competed-in
He won the 1972 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1992.
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Wikipedia, Chris Ferguson
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Chris Ferguson, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Chris Ferguson, lead paragraph, competed-in
He has won six World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
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Wikipedia, Scotty Nguyen
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Scotty Nguyen, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Scotty Nguyen, lead paragraph, competed-in
Thuận B. "Scotty" Nguyễn (born October 28, 1962) 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 World Series of Poker $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Cha
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Wikipedia, Greg Raymer
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Greg Raymer, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Greg Raymer, lead paragraph, competed-in
He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Wikipedia: Johnny Moss
WikipediaCompetitors Include: Johnny Moss, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Johnny Moss, lead paragraph, competed-in
He was the first winner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, at the time a cash game event in which he was awarded the title by the vote of his peers in 1970.
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Bobby Baldwin - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Bobby Baldwin, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Bobby Baldwin, lead paragraph, competed-in
As a poker player, Baldwin is best known as the winner of the 1978 World Series of Poker Main Event, becoming the youngest Main Event champion at that time.
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Joe Hachem - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Joe Hachem, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Joe Hachem, lead paragraph, competed-in
He is one of only six poker players to win both a World Series of Poker main event and a World Poker Tour championship.
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Peter Eastgate - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Peter Eastgate, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Peter Eastgate, lead paragraph, competed-in
Peter Nicolas Eastgate (born 13 December 1985) is a poker player from Denmark, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2008 World Series of Poker.
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Pius Heinz - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Pius Heinz, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Pius Heinz, lead paragraph, competed-in
Pius Heinz (born 4 May 1989) is a German professional poker player from Bonn, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2011 World Series of Poker.
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Jonathan Duhamel - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Jonathan Duhamel, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Jonathan Duhamel, lead paragraph, competed-in
Jonathan Duhamel (born August 24, 1987) is a Canadian poker professional from Boucherville, Quebec, best known as the winner of the Main Event at the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
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Martin Jacobson - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Martin Jacobson, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Martin Jacobson, lead paragraph, competed-in
In 2014, he won the World Series of Poker Main Event for $10,000,000, the fifth largest single payout in poker tournament history.
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Andre Akkari, Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Andre Akkari, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Andre Akkari, lead paragraph, competed-in
He won the 2011 World Series of Poker $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event for $675,117.
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Mansour Matloubi - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Mansour Matloubi, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Mansour Matloubi, lead paragraph, competed-in
Matloubi won the 1990 World Series of Poker Main Event for $835,000, becoming the first non-American to win the title.
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Hamid Dastmalchi - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Hamid Dastmalchi, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Hamid Dastmalchi, lead paragraph, competed-in
Dastmalchi won the 1992 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, which is his largest tournament win with a prize of $1 million.
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Noel Furlong - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Noel Furlong, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Noel Furlong, lead paragraph, competed-in
John James Furlong (25 December 1937-27 June 2021) was an Irish businessman and poker player who won the 1999 World Series of Poker main event.
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Carlos Mortensen - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Carlos Mortensen, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Carlos Mortensen, lead paragraph, competed-in
Juan Carlos Mortensen (born 13 April 1972, in Ambato, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian professional poker player of Danish descent and the first South American Main Event winner of the World Series of Poker.
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Jerry Yang (poker player) - Wikipedia
Competitors Include: Jerry Yang, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Jerry Yang, lead paragraph, competed-in
An amateur player at the time, Yang entered the 2007 World Series of Poker after winning a $225 satellite at the Pechanga Resort and Casino in Temecula.
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Wikipedia: Qui Nguyen (poker player)
Competitors Include: Qui Nguyen, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Qui Nguyen, lead paragraph, competed-in
Qui Nguyen's autobiography, From Vietnam to Vegas! How I won the World Series of Poker Main Event, was published in November 2017 by D&B Publishing.
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Wikipedia: Hossein Ensan
Competitors Include: Hossein Ensan, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Hossein Ensan, lead paragraph, competed-in
In 2019, he won the Main Event at the World Series of Poker for $10,000,000.
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Wikipedia: Damian Salas
Competitors Include: Damian Salas, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Damian Salas, lead paragraph, competed-in
He won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2020, becoming the first person from Argentina to win the world championship of poker and the second person from South America to win the championship, after 2001 champion Carlos Mortensen.
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Wikipedia: Koray Aldemir
Competitors Include: Koray Aldemir, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Koray Aldemir, lead paragraph, competed-in
Prior to the Main Event, Aldemir's best career cash was for $2.1 million when he finished in third place in the $111,111 One Drop High Roller at the 2016 World Series of Poker.
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Espen Jørstad (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Espen Jorstad, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Espen Jorstad, lead paragraph, competed-in
In 2022, he won the World Series of Poker Main Event for $10,000,000.
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Wikipedia: John Juanda
Competitors Include: John Juanda, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: John Juanda, lead paragraph, competed-in
He has won five World Series of Poker bracelets.
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Jason Mercier (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Jason Mercier, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Jason Mercier, lead paragraph, competed-in
He has won six World Series of Poker bracelets and one European Poker Tour title.
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Puggy Pearson (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Puggy Pearson, lead paragraph, competed-in
Quote, Competitors Include: Puggy Pearson, lead paragraph, competed-in
He is best known as the 1973 World Series of Poker Main Event winner.
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Annette Obrestad (Wikipedia)
Competitors Include: Annette Obrestad, lead paragraph, competed-in
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She is the youngest person to ever win a World Series of Poker bracelet, which she accomplished at the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE).
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Michael Mizrachi (Wikipedia)
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Mizrachi also has two World Poker Tour titles, and previously made the final table of another WSOP Main Event, finishing 5th at the 2010 World Series of Poker.
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Joe Cada (Wikipedia)
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On June 18, 2012, he lost heads up in the 2,811-entrant $1,500 No Limit Texas hold 'em event at the 2012 World Series of Poker.
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Dan Harrington (Wikipedia)
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Dan Harrington (born December 6, 1945) is a professional poker player, best known for winning the Main Event at the 1995 World Series of Poker.
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Mike Matusow (Wikipedia)
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His successes include being a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and the winner of the 2005 World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.
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Robert Mizrachi (Wikipedia)
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Mizrachi won his first bracelet in the 2007 World Series of Poker in the $10,000 World Championship Pot Limit Omaha event, winning $768,889.
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Jennifer Harman (Wikipedia)
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She has won two World Series of Poker bracelets in open events, one of only four women to have done so .
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Jamie Gold (Wikipedia)
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Jamie M. Gold (born August 25, 1969) is an American television producer, talent agent, and poker player, based in Malibu, California and known for winning the 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
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Sam Farha (Wikipedia)
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He is best known for finishing as runner up in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in 2003.
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Tom McEvoy (Wikipedia)
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He is best known for winning the 1983 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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ElkY (Wikipedia)
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He has won a World Poker Tour (WPT), a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a European Poker Tour (EPT) title, giving him the Triple Crown.
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Phil Galfond (Wikipedia)
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Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championship in 2015 and the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship in 2018.
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Robert Varkonyi (Wikipedia)
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Robert Varkonyi is an American poker player, best known for winning the Main Event of the 2002 World Series of Poker.
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Maria Ho (Wikipedia)
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She is a Global Poker Award winner for Broadcaster of the Year and the only player to be the World Series of Poker Main Event (US and Europe) "Last Woman Standing” four times; her highest finish was 38th out of 6,458 players in 2011.
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Joe McKeehen (Wikipedia)
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In 2015 he won the World Series of Poker Main Event, earning $7,683,346.
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Jeff Madsen (Wikipedia)
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Jeff Madsen (born June 7, 1985) is a four-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and the 2006 World Series of Poker Player of the Year.
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Jeff Lisandro (Wikipedia)
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At the 2009 World Series of Poker, he became the first person to win a World Series title in all three seven-card stud disciplines in the same year, when he won tournaments in Stud High, Stud High-Low, and Razz, earning him the Player of the Year title.
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Barbara Enright (Wikipedia)
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Enright was the first woman to win an open event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), the first woman to win three WSOP bracelets, and was the first female player to make the final table of the $10,000 buy-in main event.
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J. C. Tran (Wikipedia)
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Tran is a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event champion, has made eight World Poker Tour (WPT) final tables, winner of a WPT title, won at the World Poker Challenge and is the WPT Player of the Year of their fifth season.
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Hal Fowler (Wikipedia)
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Harold Arthur Fowler (January 12, 1927, November 7, 2000) was an American poker player known for winning the 1979 World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Leo Margets (Wikipedia)
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In 2025, she became the first woman in 30 years to make the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event.
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Cyndy Violette (Wikipedia)
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Cyndy Violette (born August 19, 1959) is an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004.
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Nenad Medić (Wikipedia)
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Nenad Medić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ненад Медић, born 21 December 1982, in Apatin, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian professional poker player with a World Series of Poker bracelet and World Poker Tour Championship title.
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Billy Baxter (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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He has won numerous tournament titles in his career as a professional poker player, including seven World Series of Poker bracelets.
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Gabriel Nassif (Wikipedia)
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He also enjoys playing poker, having moderate success at the World Series of Poker.
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John Hennigan (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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John L. Hennigan (born August 10, 1969) is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in his career, has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour (WPT) title.
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Humberto Brenes (Wikipedia)
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Brenes's two bracelets came at the 1993 World Series of Poker in limit Texas hold 'em and pot limit Omaha.
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Dennis Phillips (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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In the 2009 World Series of Poker, Phillips followed his third-place finish by finishing 45th, earning $178,857.
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Jack Keller (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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Keller won the 1984 World Series of Poker Main Event, three WSOP bracelets, and more than $1,580,000 in tournament play at the World Series of Poker during his career.
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Brad Daugherty (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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Daugherty was awarded the first ever million-dollar first-place prize at the World Series of Poker when he won the bracelet in the 1991 Main Event, and finished in ninth place in 1993.
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Allen Cunningham (Wikipedia)
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Allen Cunningham (born March 28, 1977) is an American professional poker player who has won five World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets.
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Dan Smith (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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Smith has won many titles during his poker career, including a World Poker Tour title, a World Series of Poker bracelet and a championship event at the Aussie Millions.
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Russ Hamilton (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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He was the 1994 World Series of Poker main event champion, defeating Hugh Vincent in heads-up play to win $1 million in first-prize money as well as his bodyweight in silver.
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Crandell Addington (Wikipedia)
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Crandell Addington (June 2, 1938, April 14, 2024) was an American businessman and poker player who is best known as one of the founders of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), and is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.
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Alexander Kravchenko (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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As a result of his success at the 2007 World Series of Poker, Kravchenko passed Kirill Gerasimov to become the all-time leading money winner among Russian players at the time.
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Hans Lund (Wikipedia)
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Hans J. "Tuna" Lund (September 23, 1950, November 6, 2009) was an American professional poker player, based in Sparks, Nevada, who won two World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, and was the runner-up at the 1990 WSOP Main Event.
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John Cernuto (Wikipedia)
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His largest score was for $259,150 from his $2,000 No Limit Hold'em bracelet victory in the 1997 World Series of Poker.
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Hasan Habib (Wikipedia)
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As of 2015, he has cashed twenty-five times in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), including a 2nd-place finish in $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split event in 2000, and a 4th-place finish in the $10,000 no limit Texas hold 'em Main Event in the same year, for which he took home $326,000.
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Ben Yu (Wikipedia)
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He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and appeared at 15 World Series of Poker (WSOP) final tables.
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Steve Zolotow (Wikipedia)
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He has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker.
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Berry Johnston (Wikipedia)
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He is best known as the 1986 World Champion, but he has also won four other bracelets at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in addition to cashes and wins in many other tournaments throughout his career.
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Paul Wasicka (Wikipedia)
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Paul J. Wasicka (born February 17, 1981, in Dallas, Texas) is a professional poker player, based in Denver, Colorado, who was the runner-up at the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event and the winner of the 2007 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship.
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Bill Boyd (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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Boyd was a five-card stud player; he won all four of his World Series of Poker bracelets in five-card stud.
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Sebastian Ruthenberg (Wikipedia)
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Sebastian Ruthenberg (born 6 February 1984 in Hamburg) is a German professional poker player who is both a World Series of Poker bracelet and a European Poker Tour title winner.
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Michael Binger (Wikipedia)
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At the 2007 WSOP, Binger tied Chris Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth and Humberto Brenes for second most cashes of any player in a single World Series of Poker season with eight.
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Noah Schwartz (Wikipedia)
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He has won a World Series of Poker bracelet and a World Poker Tour title.
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Alexandra Botez (Wikipedia)
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She has participated in the World Series of Poker as well as celebrity tournaments with other prominent streamers such as xQc and professional poker players such as Phil Hellmuth.
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Ralph Perry (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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In 2006, Perry represented Russia at the inaugural Intercontinental Poker Championship and reached the semi-finals, during which he was the target of some much-publicised needling by Tony G. On 18 July 2006, Perry won his first World Series of Poker bracelet, along with over $200,000, in the $1,500
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John Cynn (Wikipedia)
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In 2018, he won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $8,800,000.
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Steve Sung (Wikipedia)
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Suk-Min "Steve" Sung (born 1985) is a South Korean professional poker player residing in Torrance, California who is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and a three time final tablist of World Poker Tour Championships.
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Dan Kelly (poker player) (Wikipedia)
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Daniel J. Kelly (born March 10, 1989, in Fairfax, Virginia) is an American professional poker player from Potomac, Maryland, who won his first bracelet at the 2010 World Series of Poker in the $25,000 No Limit Hold'em Six Handed event, earning $1,315,518. his second came at the 2014 WSOP in the $1,5
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Nick Petrangelo (Wikipedia)
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Nick Petrangelo (born January 2, 1987) is an American professional poker player from Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, who won two World Series of Poker bracelets.
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John Racener (Wikipedia)
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He has made World Series of Poker final tables on 35 occasions, as well as one World Poker Tour final table.
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Jennifer Tilly (Wikipedia)
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Tilly is a World Series of Poker bracelet champion, becoming the first-ever celebrity to win such a tournament in 2005.
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