2003 World Series of Poker
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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 on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing... Hold'em |
David Lukaszewski David Lukaszewski David Lukaszewski was a 33 year old Poker Room Shift Manager at the Desert Diamond Casino who won a bracelet in the 2003 Casino Employees Championship event at the World Series of Poker. The Casino Employees Championship event was the first time that Lukaszewski had played in a tournament with a... |
$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 variant 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. Two to eight players is common, though eight may... |
Toto Leonidas Toto Leonidas Alfredo C. "Toto" Leonidas is an American Poker player with over $3,200,000 in live tournament lifetime winnings. His 24 cashes as the WSOP account for $812,218 of those winnings.... |
$98,760 | Rallis Peter Tanagiotias |
| $2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split | Chris Ferguson Chris Ferguson Christopher Philip Ferguson is an American professional poker player. He has won five World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. On September 20, 2011, the U.S... |
$123,680 | Barry Bindelglass |
| $2,000 No Limit Betting (poker) In the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing... Hold'em |
Jim Meehan Jim Meehan "Minneapolis" Jim Meehan is an American professional poker player from Burnsville, Minnesota. Prior to his poker career, Meehan worked as a lawyer for many years.... |
$280,100 | Guy Calvert |
| $1,500 Pot Limit Betting (poker) In the game of poker, the play largely centers on the act of betting, and as such, a protocol has been developed to speed up play, lessen confusion, and increase security while playing... Hold'em |
Prahlad Friedman Prahlad Friedman Prahlad S. Friedman is an American professional poker player from Los Angeles, California. He has played under the screen names "Spirit Rock" on Full Tilt Poker, "Mahatma" on Ultimate Bet, "Zweig" on Prima Network, and "Prefontaine" on PokerStars... |
$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.... |
$106,020 | Bob Mangino |
| $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha | Erik Seidel Erik Seidel Erik Seidel is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.In 2010, he was inducted as a member of the Poker Hall of Fame.-Early life:... |
$146,100 | Men Nguyen Men Nguyen Men "The Master" Nguyễn is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.-Early years:In 1967, he dropped out of school at age 13 and became a bus driver to help support his family. In early 1978, a staunch anti-Communist, he escaped from the Communist regime of Vietnam by boat and sailed with... |
| $2,000 H.O.R.S.E. | Doyle Brunson Doyle Brunson Doyle F. Brunson is an 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 books on poker.Brunson is the first player to... |
$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. He has won five World Series of Poker events, including the 2000 WSOP Main Event, and the 2008 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. On September 20, 2011, the U.S... |
$66,220 | Diego Cordovez Diego Cordovez Diego Cordovez is an American poker player. He has won one World Series of Poker bracelet, and he has 16 WSOP cash finishes including 7 final tables. He has won over $1.4 Million in career tournament winnings... |
| $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.- World Series of Poker :... |
$222,800 | Jim Miller |
| $2,500 Limit Hold'em | Phil Hellmuth Jr Phil Hellmuth Phil Hellmuth is an American professional poker player. He is best known for holding a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his temperamental, "poker brat" personality... |
$171,400 | Young Phan |
| $2,500 Seven Card Stud | Michael Saltzburg | $95,580 | Mimi Tran Mimi Tran Thithi "Mimi" Tran is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player.- Biography :Tran was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam. After moving to the United States in 1982, Tran found work in the electronics industry in Silicon Valley. She began playing poker in 1989, after an auto accident left her... |
| $5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Draw (poker) A poker player is drawing if they have a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw or drawing hand. For example, in seven-card stud, if four of a player's first five cards are all spades, but the hand is otherwise weak, they are drawing to... |
O'Neil Longson O'Neil Longson O'Neil Longson is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who has won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker.-Poker career:... |
$147,680 | Allen Cunningham Allen Cunningham Allen Cunningham is an American professional poker player.Cunningham studied civil engineering at UCLA before dropping out of school to play poker professionally. At the age of 18, he began playing at in Indian casinos... |
| $5,000 No Limit Hold'em | Johnny Chan Johnny Chan (poker player) Johnny Chan rather than his Chinese birth name. born in Guangzhou, China in 1957) is a Chinese American professional poker player. He has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, including 1987 and 1988 World Series of Poker main events consecutively.... |
$224,400 | Surinder Sunar Surinder Sunar Surinder Sunar is a British 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 German professional poker player best known for winning two World Series of Poker bracelets.... |
$63,600 | Dave Colclough Dave Colclough David E. Colclough is a Welsh professional poker player, now living in Thailand.-Before poker:Prior to becoming a poker professional, Colclough worked as a computer programmer. Amongst the companies he worked for were the Post Office and the National Health Service... |
| $1,500 Limit Hold'em | John Arrage | $178,600 | Kathy Liebert Kathy Liebert Kathleen H. Liebert is an American professional poker player.- Poker :Liebert started her professional poker career as a prop player in Colorado... |
| $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 possible five-card hand from the seven cards you are dealt. In Razz, straights and flushes do not count against the player for low, and the ace usually plays low... |
Huck Seed Huck Seed Huckleberry Seed is an American professional poker player best known for winning the main event of the 1996 World Series of Poker.-Early Life:... |
$71,500 | Phil Ivey Phil Ivey Phillip Dennis "Phil" Ivey Jr. is an American professional poker player who has won eight World Series of Poker bracelets, one World Poker Tour title and appeared at nine World Poker Tour final tables... |
| $2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split | Layne Flack Layne Flack Layne Flack is an American professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.He met up with Johnny Chan who helped him improve his game and, following a big loss, encouraged Flack to ensure he had a lot of rest before a tournament... |
$119,260 | Men Nguyen |
| $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em | Mickey Appleman Mickey Appleman Mickey L. Appleman is an American professional poker player, sports bettor, and sports handicapper now living in Fort Lee, New Jersey... |
$147,280 | Brian Plona |
| $1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em | Ron Rose Ron Rose Ron Rose is an American poker player from Dayton, Ohio, and a two time World Poker Tour Champion with a World Series of Poker bracelet.-Early Life and Career:... |
$130,060 | Ron McMillan |
| $2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split | John Juanda John Juanda Johnson "John" Juanda is a Chinese Indonesian professional poker player based in Marina del Rey, California. Juanda lives in Los Angeles.-Personal life:... |
$130,200 | Shahram Sheikhan Shahram Sheikhan Shahram "Shawn" Sheikhan is a professional poker player who currently lives in Las Vegas, 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 was an Iranian professional poker player born in Tehran, Iran. who won a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event.... |
$270,000 | Cleve Haley |
| $2,000 S.H.O.E. | Daniel Negreanu Daniel Negreanu Daniel Negreanu is a Canadian professional poker player. He has won four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour Championship titles. He is currently ranked second in the all-time career earnings list and is the star of poker game show Million Dollar Challenge. He plays a big... |
$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 American professional poker player, residing in Montana and Nevada.He met up with Johnny Chan who helped him improve his game and, following a big loss, encouraged Flack to ensure he had a lot of rest before a tournament... |
$120,000 | Annie Duke Annie Duke Annie Duke is a professional poker player and author who won a bracelet in 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-Take-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 Barb Rugolo Barb Rugolo was a World Series of Poker champion in the 2003 $1,000 Ladies - Hold'em and Limit 7 Card Stud.As of 2008, her total WSOP tournament winnings exceed $40,700.-World Series of Poker bracelets:-References:... |
$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.As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceed $1,700,000... |
| $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split | Frankie O'Dell Frankie O'Dell Frankie O'Dell is an American professional poker player residing in Long Beach, California. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets in Omaha Hi/Lo Split. His first win came in the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 event and his second in the $2,000 event in 2007... |
$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 an Ecuadorian professional poker player of Danish descent 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.Mortensen moved from Spain to the United States in... |
$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 straights and flushes are used. The methods are:* Ace-to-five low:... |
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 American poker player who won the main event at the 2003 World Series of Poker . His 2003 win is said to have revolutionized poker because he was the first person to become a world champion by qualifying at an online poker site... |
$2,500,000 |
| 2nd | Sam Farha Sam Farha Ihsan Farha is a professional poker player. He is best known for finishing as runner up in the World Series of Poker main event in 2003 and has won three bracelets at the WSOP.-Early years:... |
$1,300,000 |
| 3rd | Dan Harrington Dan Harrington Dan Harrington is a professional poker player, best known for winning the main event world championship at the 1995 World Series of Poker. He has earned one World Poker Tour title, two WSOP bracelets, and over six million dollars in tournament cashes in his poker career... |
$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. He came in 4th at the 2003 World Series of Poker , the year Chris Moneymaker won the... |
$440,000 |
| 5th | Tomer Benvenisti | $320,000 |
| 6th | Amir Vahedi Amir Vahedi Amir Vahedi was an Iranian professional poker player born in Tehran, Iran. who won a World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2003 World Series of Poker in the $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event.... |
$250,000 |
| 7th | Young Pak | $200,000 |
| 8th | David Grey David Grey David F. Grey is an American 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 an American professional poker player and former attorney.-Law career: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.-Poker career:He has been playing poker professionally since... |
$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.... |
$80,000 |
| 12th | Dutch Boyd | $80,000 |
| 13th | Kassem "Freddy" Deeb | $65,000 |
| 14th | Marcel Lüske Marcel Lüske Marcel Lüske is a Dutch professional poker player. He finished 10th in the 2004 WSOP main event and as of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,700,000 USD... |
$65,000 |
| 15th | Bruno Fitoussi Bruno Fitoussi Bruno Fitoussi is a French 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 Thuận B. "Scotty" Nguyễn is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a five time World Series of Poker 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. World Championship... |
$55,000 |
| 19th | Howard Lederer Howard Lederer Howard Henry Lederer is an American professional poker player and brother of poker professional Annie Duke, and author and poet Katy Lederer. On September 20, 2011, the U.S... |
$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 |