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2004 World Series of Poker

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2004 World Series of Poker

The 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment 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 Hold'em Carl Nessel $40,000 Cory Pocket
$2,000 No Limit Hold'em James Vogl $400,000 Shawn Rice
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Ted Forrest $111,440 Chad Brown
$1,500 Limit Hold-em Aaron Katz $234,940 Richard Gardner-Brown
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Curtis Bibb $160,000 Paul Phillips
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em Minh Nguyen $155,420 Lorne Persons
$1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em Gerry Drehobl $365,900 John Juanda
$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha Chau Giang $187,920 Robert Williamson III
$1,500 No Limit Hold 'Em Scott Fischman $300,000 Joe Awada
$2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Cyndy Violette $135,900 Pete Kaufman
$2,500 Limit Hold'Em Eli Balas $174,440 Steve Shkolnik
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E. Scott Fischman $100,200 John Cover
$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em Thomas Keller $382,020 Martin De Knijff
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Hasan Habib $93,060 Tommy Polk
$2,000 Limit Hold' Em Daniel Negreanu $169,100 Chris Hinchcliffe
$5,000 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Barry Greenstein $296,200 Chris Ferguson
$1,500 Limit Hold 'Em Shootout Kathy Liebert $110,180 Kevin Song
$1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout Phi Nguyen $180,000 Kirill Gerasimov
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Annie Duke $137,860 Ron Graham
$1,000 Ladies Limit Hold 'Em Crystal Doan $58,530 Millie Shiu
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em Antonio Esfandiari $58,530 Phi Nguyen
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Brett Jungblut $187,720 John Cernuto
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Ted Forrest $300,300 Susan Pritchett
$5,000 Seven Card Stud Joe Awada $221,000 Marcel Lüske
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Gavin Griffin $270,420 Garry Bush
$1,500 Seven Card Razz T. J. Cloutier $90,500 Dutch Boyd
$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Farzad Bonyadi $86,980 Trung Ly
$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Gary Gibbs $136,960 Carl McKelvey
$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em John Hennigan $325,360 An Tran
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mike Sica $503,160 John Kabbaj
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Ted Lawson $500,000 Lee Watkinson
$1,500 A-5 Draw Lowball Norm Ketchum $84,500 Barry Greenstein
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.From Wikipedia

Final table

Place Name Prize
1st Greg Raymer $5,000,000
2nd David Williams $3,500,000
3rd Josh Arieh $2,500,000
4th Dan Harrington $1,500,000
5th Glenn Hughes $1,100,000
6th Al Krux $800,000
7th Matt Dean $675,000
8th Mattias Andersson $575,000
9th Michael McClain $470,400