2005 World Series of Poker results
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This article is a list of results of the 2005 World Series of Poker
(WSOP) with statistics, final table results and payouts.
This event kicked off the 2005 WSOP. It was a $500 buy-in no limit
Texas hold 'em
tournament reserved for casino employees that work in Nevada
.
2005 World Series of Poker
The 2005 World Series of Poker opened play on June 2, continuing through the Main Event No Limit World Championship starting on July 7. The conclusion of the Main Event on July 15 marked the close of play, and the largest prize in sports and/or television history at the time was awarded to the...
(WSOP) with statistics, final table results and payouts.
Event 1: $500 Casino Employee's No Limit Hold'em
June 2, 2005This event kicked off the 2005 WSOP. It was a $500 buy-in 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...
Texas hold 'em
Texas hold 'em
Texas Hold 'em is a variation of the standard card game of poker. The game consists of two cards being dealt face down to each player and then five community cards being placed face-up by the dealer—a series of three then two additional single cards , with...
tournament reserved for casino employees that work in Nevada
Nevada
Nevada is a state in the western, mountain west, and southwestern regions of the United States. With an area of and a population of about 2.7 million, it is the 7th-largest and 35th-most populous state. Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in the Las Vegas metropolitan area, which contains its...
.
- Number of buy-ins: 662
- Total Prize Pool: $297,900
- Number of Payouts: 63
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Andy Nguyen | $83,390 |
2nd | Danilo Flores | $43,195 |
3rd | Thang Luu Thang Luu Thang Luu is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker $1,500 Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event and repeated as champion in the same event at the 2009 World Series of Poker... |
$23,830 |
4th | Simon Matthews | $20,855 |
5th | Steven Cuti | $17,875 |
6th | Dustin West | $14,895 |
7th | Todd Dakake | $11,915 |
8th | David Slowik | $8,935 |
9th | Justin Porter | $5,960 |
Event 2: $1,500 No-Limit Texas Hold'em
June 3, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 2,305
- Total Prize Pool: $3,180,900
- Number of Payouts: 200
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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... |
$725,405 |
2nd | Scott Fischman Scott Fischman Scott Fischman is an American professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada.Fischman grew up in South Jersey and moved to Las Vegas at the age of 12. He was introduced to poker by a schoolfriend and went on to become a poker dealer at the Sahara and the Mirage... |
$352,125 |
3rd | Dave Ulliott | $232,205 |
4th | Can Kim Hua Can Kim Hua Can Kim Hua is a Vietnamese American professional poker player who is a three-time final tablest at both the World Series of Poker and on the World Poker Tour with over $2.7 million in earnings.-Career:... |
$200,395 |
5th | Liz Lieu Liz Lieu Liz Lieu is a Vietnamese professional poker player.Lieu was primarily a limit Texas hold 'em cash games player for a number of years, before embracing tournament play at the 2005 World Series of Poker. When John Phan encouraged her to enter the $1500 no-limit hold'em event, she ended up in fifth... |
$177,000 |
6th | Charlie Huff | $136,780 |
7th | An Tran An Tran An Tran is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player, now living in Las Vegas, Nevada.Tran began playing poker in the mid-1970s and first finished in the money of a World Series of Poker event in 1989 in the $2,000 no limit hold 'em event... |
$104,970 |
8th | Randy Edmonson | $73,160 |
9th | Richard Boutwell | $54,075 |
Event 3: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
June 4, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 1,071
- Total Prize Pool: $1,477,980
- Number of Payouts: 100
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Thomas Werthmann | $369,535 |
2nd | 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... |
$185,855 |
3rd | Tony Ma Tony Ma Tony Ma is an American professional poker player.Born Hieu Ngoc Ma, he moved to Southern California in 1985 and became a regular fixture on the poker circuit.... |
$118,240 |
4th | Martin Green | $103,460 |
5th | David Bach | $88,680 |
6th | Mario Valenzuela | $73,900 |
7th | Pierre Nasr | $59,120 |
8th | Arash Ganehian | $44,340 |
9th | Ernest Patrick | $29,560 |
Event 4: $1,500 Limit Hold 'em
June 5, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 1,049
- Total Prize Pool: $1,447,620
- Number of Payouts: 100
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Eric Froehlich Eric Froehlich Eric Froehlich is an American professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of 2009, Froehlich's total live tournament winnings exceed $1,300,000. His 16 cashes at the WSOP account for $867,783 of those winnings.... |
$361,910 |
2nd | Jason Steinhorn | $182,040 |
3rd | Todd Witteles Todd Witteles Todd Witteles is an American professional poker player. A former computer scientist, Witteles made poker his full-time pursuit in 2003.-Poker career:... |
$115,810 |
4th | Adam Hersh | $101,335 |
5th | Christian Van Hees | $86,855 |
6th | Devin Armstrong | $72,380 |
7th | Peter Costa Peter Costa Peter Costa to Greek Cypriot parents is a British professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada.He is most well known as the winner of the sixth series of the popular Late Night Poker television series during his time living in the United Kingdom, where he defeated Austria's Jin Cai Lin in... |
$57,905 |
8th | Wing Wong | $43,430 |
9th | Brian Mogelefsky | $28,950 |
Event 5: $1,500 Omaha High-Low 8/OB
June 6, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 699
- Total Prize Pool: $964,620
- Number of Payouts: 63
Place | Name | Prize |
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1st | Pat Poels Pat Poels Patrick Poels is an American professional poker player from Mesa, Arizona and a two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner.... |
$270,100 |
2nd | John Lukas John Lukas John Lukas is an American poker player who has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker.He won his first bacelet in 1983, in the $1,000 Limit Razz event, earning $43,000. Lukas won his second bracelet in 1985, in the $1,000 Limit Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo event, earning $74,500.Since then, he... |
$139,870 |
3rd | Jeff Duvall | $77,170 |
4th | Bahram Kianfar | $67,525 |
5th | Dan Heimiller Dan Heimiller Daniel Heimiller in is an American professional poker player who won the ½ Hold'em - ½ Seven-Card Stud event at the 2002 World Series of Poker. His total live tournament winnings exceed $2.2 million.... |
$57,875 |
6th | 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.... |
$48,230 |
7th | Darrell Dicken Darrell Dicken Darrell T. Dicken is an American professional poker player from Waterloo, Iowa, who has cashed at seven world poker tour championship events, making the final 6-handed table in two of them.... |
$38,585 |
8th | Boris Shats | $28,940 |
9th | 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.... |
$19,290 |
Event 6: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Six-Handed)
June 7, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 548
- Total Prize Pool: $1,260,400
- Number of Payouts: 66
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Isaac Galazan | $315,125 |
2nd | Harry Demetriou Harry Demetriou Charidimos Demetriou is a British poker player.-World Series of Poker:Demetriou first became known in poker circles for his 3rd place finish at the $2,000 no limit Texas hold 'em tournament at the 2002 World Series of Poker won by Layne Flack... |
$163,850 |
3rd | Tommy Grimes | $85,705 |
4th | 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... |
$75,625 |
5th | Antonio Esfandiari Antonio Esfandiari Antonio Esfandiari is a professional poker player, known for his elaborate chip tricks.-Early life:When he was 9 years old his family moved to San Jose, California... |
$63,020 |
Event 7: $1,000 No-limit Hold'em w/Rebuys
June 8, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 826
- Number of rebuys: 1,495
- Total Prize Pool: $2,201,630
- Number of Payouts: 72
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Michael Gracz Michael Gracz Maciek Gracz is a Polish professional poker player, based in Raleigh, North Carolina.Gracz learned poker from his father and played regularly whilst studying at North Carolina State University.... |
$594,460 |
2nd | Cheung Tai Law | $311,555 |
3rd | Chuck Thompson | $176,145 |
4th | David Pham David Pham David Pham , is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player from Bell Gardens, California with two World Series of Poker bracelets and has made seven final tables at the World Poker Tour.- Early life :... |
$154,125 |
5th | Shane Schleger Shane Schleger Shane J. Schleger is a professional poker player. Known for online poker tournament success under the name shaniac, he has made two World Series of Poker final tables as well as a World Poker Tour final Table.Schleger finished fifth place on two separate occasions in the WSOP $1K w/ Rebuys... |
$132,110 |
6th | Shae Drobushevich | $110,090 |
7th | Pascal Perrault Pascal Perrault Pascal "Triple P" Perrault is a French professional poker player, who specialises in tournament play. The nickname "Triple P" is short for Pascal "Poison" Perrault, a reference to his other profession as a pharmacist.... |
$88,070 |
8th | Phil Gordon Phil Gordon Philip Stewart Gordon is an American professional poker player, commentator and author.-Personal life:Gordon was born in El Paso, Texas. He spent his formative years in Stone Mountain, Georgia. Gordon began attending Georgia Tech at the age of 15 while still attending high school... |
$66,055 |
9th | Meng La | $44,035 |
Event 8: $1,500 Seven Card Stud
June 9, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 472
- Total Prize Pool: $651,360
- Number of Payouts: 40
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Cliff Josephy Cliff Josephy Cliff D. Josephy is an American professional poker player from Syosset, New York.At the 2005 World Series of Poker , Josephy won a bracelet in the $1,500 seven-card stud event, defeating Kirill Gerasimov in the final heads-up confrontation... |
$192,150 |
2nd | 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... |
$108,775 |
3rd | Mark Burtman | $63,180 |
4th | Greg Mascio | $48,200 |
5th | Ibrahim Almalhi | $39,735 |
6th | Ardell Willis | $31,265 |
7th | Minh Nguyen | $24,750 |
8th | Murry Reinhart | $17,585 |
Event 9: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
June 10, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 1403
- Total Prize Pool: $2,581,520
- Number of Payouts: 140
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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:... |
$611,795 |
2nd | Cyndy Violette Cyndy Violette Cyndy Violette is an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004.-Early life:... |
$295,970 |
3rd | Perry Friedman Perry Friedman Perry Friedman is an American professional poker player who won the 2002 World Series of Poker $1,500 Limit Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better event, a founding member of the Tiltboys and is a Full Tilt Professional.- World Series of Poker :... |
$196,455 |
4th | Morgan Machina | $170,380 |
5th | Paul Sexton | $147,145 |
6th | Harry Demetriou | $123,915 |
7th | Fabrice Soulier Fabrice Soulier Fabrice Soulier is a professional poker player with over $3.2 Million in live poker tournament winnings and won his first bracelet in the 2011 World Series of Poker $10,000 H.O.R.S.E... |
$103,260 |
8th | Chris Wunderlich | $77,445 |
9th | William Blanda | $51,630 |
Event 10: $2,000 Limit Hold'em
June 11, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 569
- Total Prize Pool: $1,046,940
- Number of Payouts: 54
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Reza Payvar | $303,610 |
2nd | 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.... |
$160,185 |
3rd | John Myung John Myung (poker player) John Myung is an American accountant and poker player of Korean descent, based in Vienna, Virginia.-Before poker:Myung graduated from Cornell University. He was training to be a medical doctor in Manhattan but quit as he did not wish to commit six years of his life to studying... |
$83,755 |
4th | John Cernuto John Cernuto "Miami" John Cernuto is an American professional poker player based in Las Vegas, Nevada, specialising in Omaha hi-lo events.-Early years:... |
$73,285 |
5th | Tommy Garza | $62,820 |
6th | Rodeen Talebi | $52,350 |
7th | Jay Helfert | $41,880 |
8th | Robert Schulze | $31,410 |
9th | Eric Liebeler | $20,940 |
Event 11: $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em
June 12, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 540
- Total Prize Pool: $993,600
- Number of Payouts: 45
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Edward Moncada | $298,070 |
2nd | Steven Hudak | $159,970 |
3rd | David Cossio | $79,490 |
4th | Shah Ajay | $69,550 |
5th | Freddy Deeb Freddy Deeb Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19.-Before poker:... |
$59,615 |
6th | Sharbel Koumi | $49,680 |
7th | Marco Traniello Marco Traniello Marco Traniello is an Italian professional hairdresser and is sponsored professional poker player on Full Tilt Poker.-Poker:... |
$39,745 |
8th | Elia Ahmadian | $29,810 |
9th | Yoshitaka Oku | $19,870 |
Event 12: $2,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys
June 13, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 212
- Number of rebuys: 395
- Total Prize Pool: $1,156,350
- Number of Payouts: 18
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Josh Arieh Josh Arieh Joshua Arieh is an American professional poker player. Arieh has been competing in poker competitions since 1999... |
$381,600 |
2nd | 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... |
$210,460 |
3rd | Ronald Graham | $115,640 |
4th | Tony Seunson | $92,510 |
5th | Max Pescatori Max Pescatori Massimiliano Pescatori is an Italian professional poker player.Pescatori is a regular on the poker tournament scene, often placing high in Card Player Magazine's Player of the Year Race.... |
$69,385 |
6th | Arturo Diaz | $57,820 |
7th | 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... |
$46,225 |
8th | Doug Lee Doug Lee (poker player) Doug Lee is a Canadian poker player from Calgary, Alberta.Lee is a real estate investor from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Lee holds a college degree in marketing from the University of Calgary... |
$34,690 |
9th | Erik Seidel | $23,130 |
Event 13: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em
June 14, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 466
- Total Prize Pool: $2,190,200
- Number of Payouts: 45
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | T.J. Cloutier | $657,100 |
2nd | Steven Zoine | $352,620 |
3rd | John Bonetti John Bonetti John Joseph Bonetti was an American professional poker player from Houston, Texas.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bonetti began playing at the age of 54, and won three bracelets at the World Series of Poker .... |
$175,215 |
4th | Neal Wang | $153,315 |
5th | Jason Berilgen | $131,410 |
6th | John Hennigan John Hennigan (poker player) John Hennigan is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in his career, has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.... |
$109,510 |
7th | Dustin Woolf | $87,610 |
8th | Todd Brunson Todd Brunson Todd Alan Brunson is an American professional poker player and the son of poker legend Doyle Brunson.Although Brunson's father Doyle is a poker player, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young. It was not until he was studying law at Texas Tech University that he learned on his own how to... |
$65,705 |
9th | Tony Ma Tony Ma Tony Ma is an American professional poker player.Born Hieu Ngoc Ma, he moved to Southern California in 1985 and became a regular fixture on the poker circuit.... |
$43,805 |
Event 14: $1000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB
June 15, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 595
- Total Prize Pool: $541,450
- Number of Payouts: 48
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Steve Hohn | $156,985 |
2nd | Mike Wattel | $88,800 |
3rd | Al Ruck | $51,440 |
4th | Jonathan Paul | $39,525 |
5th | Peter Phillips | $32,485 |
6th | Marie St. Michael | $25,450 |
7th | 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... |
$20,035 |
8th | Giacomo D’Agostino | $14,080 |
9th | Russ Salzer | $8,665 |
Event 15: $1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout
June 16, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 450
- Total Prize Pool: $621,000
- Number of Payouts: 45
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Mark Seif Mark Seif Mark Seif is an Egyptian American attorney and professional poker player.-Personal life:Seif was born in Cairo, Egypt before moving with his family at the age of two, to Southern California... |
$181,330 |
2nd | William Shaw | $93,770 |
3rd | Alex Borteh | $46,885 |
4th | Robert Mizrachi Robert Mizrachi Robert Mizrachi is an American professional poker player.Robert Mizrachi was a former poker dealer at a South Miami casino... |
$40,675 |
5th | Quinn Do Quinn Do Quinn Do is an American professional poker player, a restaurant owner, and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner with multiple live tournament results adding up to over $1.9 million in career earnings.... |
$34,460 |
6th | Aram Zeroumian | $28,255 |
7th | 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... |
$24,840 |
8th | Sam Siharath | $18,630 |
9th | M.J Partin | $12,420 |
Event 16: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout
June 17, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 780
- Total Prize Pool: $1,076,400
- Number of Payouts: 78
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Anthony Reategui Anthony Reategui Anthony Reategui is a professional poker player from Chandler, Arizona. A graduate from Chandler High School, Anthony worked at a Mesa, Arizona car washing facility before his poker career... |
$269,100 |
2nd | Paul Kroh | $146,380 |
3rd | Phil Gordon | $75,350 |
4th | Young Phan | $64,585 |
5th | Kenny Robbins | $53,820 |
6th | Ted Lawson | $43,055 |
7th | Dariush Imani | $32,290 |
8th | Allen Goldstein | $25,835 |
9th | Erick Lindgren Erick Lindgren Erick A. Lindgren is an American professional poker player. He has won two World Poker Tour titles, one World Series of Poker bracelet, and more than seven million dollars in tournament earnings during his poker career.-Poker career:He won his first major tournament at the Bellagio in 2002 and... |
$20,450 |
10th | Keith Quilty | $16,145 |
Event 17: $2,500 Limit Hold'em
June 18, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 373
- Total Prize Pool: $857,900
- Number of Payouts: 36
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Quinn Do Quinn Do Quinn Do is an American professional poker player, a restaurant owner, and a World Series of Poker bracelet winner with multiple live tournament results adding up to over $1.9 million in career earnings.... |
$265,975 |
2nd | Chi Chang | $137,265 |
3rd | Mike Davis | $68,630 |
4th | Tony Nasr | $60,055 |
5th | Tom Franklin Tom Franklin "Captain" Tom Franklin is an American professional poker player born in Fresno, California.Franklin's poker career began in the 1970s. His first in the money cash at the World Series of Poker occurred in 1990, finishing 24th in the $10,000 no limit hold'em championship event... |
$51,475 |
6th | Sam Arzoin | $42,895 |
7th | Rodeen Talebi | $34,315 |
8th | Spencer Sun | $25,735 |
9th | Noah Boeken Noah Boeken Noah Boeken is a Dutch professional poker and Magic: The Gathering player.-Magic:In the 1997 Pro Tour Chicago, Boeken finished in 15th place, and later 32nd at Pro Tour Mainz... |
$17,160 |
Event 18: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha
June 19, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 291
- Total Prize Pool: $404,710
- Number of Payouts: 27
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Barry Greenstein Barry Greenstein Barry Greenstein is a professional poker player. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. Greenstein donates his profit from tournament winnings to charities, primarily Children, Incorporated, earning him the nickname "the... |
$128,505 |
2nd | Paul Vinci | $70,680 |
3rd | Chris Lindenmayer | $36,140 |
4th | 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.... |
$28,110 |
5th | Tim Martz | $24,095 |
6th | Paul Maxfield | $20,080 |
7th | Chris Ferguson | $16,065 |
8th | Sam Silverman | $12,045 |
9th | Eric Bloore | $8,030 |
Event 19: $2,000 Seven Card Stud High-Low 8/OB
June 19, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 279
- Total Prize Pool: $513,360
- Number of Payouts: 24
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Denis Ethier | $160,685 |
2nd | Chad Brown Chad Brown (poker player) Chad Lewis Brown is an American actor, poker player and color commentator, based in Los Angeles, California.-Early life & acting career:... |
$89,838 |
3rd | Jennifer Harman Jennifer Harman Jennifer C. Harman-Traniello is an American professional poker player.-Early life:Harman was born and raised in Reno, Nevada. She started playing poker in 1972 at the age of eight... |
$53,903 |
4th | Tim Fu | $38,502 |
5th | Lance Edelman | $31,828 |
6th | Bonnie Rossi | $25,155 |
7th | Phillip Penn | $20,021 |
8th | Tom McCormick | $14,374 |
Event 20: $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em
June 20, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 239
- Total Prize Pool: $1,123,300
- Number of Payouts: 18
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Brian Wilson | $370,685 |
2nd | John Gale John Gale (poker player) John Gale is an English professional poker based in Bushey, Hertfordshire.Gale is a relative newcomer to poker, having only begun playing Texas hold 'em in mid-2004. He first made a name for himself by qualifying for the World Poker Tour 2005 PokerStars Caribbean Poker Adventure tournament in The... |
$204,440 |
3rd | Derek Leforte | $112,330 |
4th | Allen Cunningham | $89,865 |
5th | Tony Cousineau Tony Cousineau Anthony "Tony" Cousineau is an American professional poker player from Daytona Beach, Florida who has cashed 41 times at the World Series of Poker , which ranks him in the top 25 in all-time WSOP cashes, and first among players who have never won a WSOP bracelet.As of 2009, his total live... |
$67,400 |
6th | Steven Liu | $56,165 |
7th | Cyndy Violette Cyndy Violette Cyndy Violette is an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004.-Early life:... |
$44,930 |
8th | Joe Sebok Joe Sebok Joe Sebok is a professional poker player from San Francisco, California. His stepfather, Barry Greenstein, is also a professional poker player. He is known as "The Cub" because he calls Greenstein "Bear." Beginning professional play in 2005, as of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed... |
$33,700 |
9th | Burt Boutin Burt Boutin Burton A. Boutin is a professional poker player from Henderson, Nevada who has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. He also finished in second place at the 2006 Mandalay Bay Poker Championship winning $604,765. Boutin is known for drinking "Red Bull" at the poker table and acting a little hyper... |
$22,645 |
Event 21: $2500 Omaha High-Low 8/OB
June 21, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 359
- Total Prize Pool: $825,700
- Number of Payouts: 36
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Todd Brunson Todd Brunson Todd Alan Brunson is an American professional poker player and the son of poker legend Doyle Brunson.Although Brunson's father Doyle is a poker player, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young. It was not until he was studying law at Texas Tech University that he learned on his own how to... |
$255,945 |
2nd | Allen Kessler | $132,110 |
3rd | Tommy Fischer | $66,055 |
4th | Manelic Minaya | $57,800 |
5th | Larry Reynolds | $49,540 |
6th | Allyn Jaffrey Shulman | $41,285 |
7th | Glenn Cozen Glenn Cozen Glenn Cozen is an American professional poker player from Pasadena, California, who is best known for his second-place finish in the $10,000 buy-in Main Event at the 1993 World Series of Poker.... |
$33,030 |
8th | Ben Lang | $24,770 |
9th | Nat Koe | $16,515 |
Event 22: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
June 24, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 2,013
- Total Prize Pool: $2,777,940
- Number of Payouts: 200
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Mark Seif Mark Seif Mark Seif is an Egyptian American attorney and professional poker player.-Personal life:Seif was born in Cairo, Egypt before moving with his family at the age of two, to Southern California... |
$611,145 |
2nd | Minh Nguyen | $329,975 |
3rd | Bill Gazes Bill Gazes William G. "Bill" Gazes is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada, who in his career has made over $2.2 Million in live tournament earnings and is a sponsored player on Full Tilt Poker known as a Full Tilt Pro.... |
$202,790 |
4th | Webber Kang | $175,010 |
5th | Peter Lee | $147,230 |
6th | Greg Raymer Greg Raymer Gregory Raymer nicknamed "Fossilman," is a professional poker player. He is best known for winning the 2004 World Series of Poker Main Event.-Early life:... |
$119,450 |
7th | James Carter | $91,670 |
8th | Steve Rassi | $63,895 |
9th | Dave Ulliott | $47,225 |
Event 23: $5000 Seven-Card Stud
June 25, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 192
- Total Prize Pool: $902,400
- Number of Payouts: 16
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Jan Sorensen | $293,275 |
2nd | Keith Sexton | $162,430 |
3rd | Chip Jett Chip Jett Charles McRae "Chip" Jett is an American professional poker player from Las Vegas, Nevada. He is one of the most popular players on the World Poker Tour.... |
$99,265 |
4th | John Phan | $72,190 |
5th | Joe Awada Joe Awada Joe Awada is a professional poker player, based in Las Vegas, Nevada.Awada moved from Lebanon to the United States in his early teenage years, working as a juggler, eventually touring with the Harlem Globetrotters... |
$58,655 |
6th | Steven Diano | $45,120 |
7th | Gerard Rechnitzer | $36,095 |
8th | Tom McCormick | $27,070 |
Event 24: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
June 24, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 1,056
- Total Prize Pool: $2,428,800
- Number of Payouts: 100
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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.... |
$594,960 |
2nd | Lars Bonding | $317,625 |
3rd | Glynn Beebe | $194,305 |
4th | Robert Doyle | $170,015 |
5th | Mayen Grigorian | $145,730 |
6th | Joe Zappia | $121,440 |
7th | Jason Tate | $97,150 |
8th | K.J. Jordan | $72,865 |
9th | Larry Watson | $48,575 |
Event 25 $2,500 Pot Limit Hold'em
June 25, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 425
- Total Prize Pool: $977,500
- Number of Payouts: 36
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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.... |
$303,025 |
2nd | Phil Laak Phil Laak Philip "Phil" C. Laak is a professional poker player, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Laak holds a World Poker Tour title, a World Series of Poker bracelet and has appeared on numerous nationally-aired television shows.-Early life:... |
$156,400 |
3rd | Richard Osborne | $78,200 |
4th | Frank Kassela Frank Kassela Frank Kassela is an American professional poker player from Germantown, Tennessee now residing in Las Vegas, who is a two time World Series of Poker bracelet winner. He won both of his bracelets at the 2010 World Series of Poker. First in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better... |
$68,425 |
5th | Jerri Thomas | $58,650 |
6th | Tony Hartmann | $48,875 |
7th | Richard Harroch | $39,100 |
8th | Ashok Surapaneni | $29,325 |
9th | Humberto Brenes Humberto Brenes Humberto Brenes is a professional poker player. Brenes currently resides in Miami Lakes, Florida with his wife and three children .... |
$19,550 |
Event 26 $1,000 Ladies - No Limit Hold'em
June 26, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 601
- Total Prize Pool: $546,910
- Number of Payouts: 54
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Jennifer Tilly Jennifer Tilly Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and poker player. She is an Academy Award nominee, and a World Series of Poker Ladies' Event bracelet winner. She is the older sister of actress Meg Tilly.-Early life:... |
$158,335 |
2nd | Ann Le | $83,540 |
3rd | Carolyn Ancheta | $43,680 |
4th | Cecilia Reyes Mortensen | $38,220 |
5th | Angel Word | $32,815 |
6th | Teresa Chang | $27,345 |
7th | Susan Carpenter | $21,875 |
8th | Beth Shak Beth Shak Beth Shak is an American professional poker player. She has been playing professionally since 2004. She's appeared in the World Series of Poker, Playboy's Poker Tournament, "Aces & Angels" at the Playboy Mansion, YRB Magazine's "Rock It" fashion spread, and MTV Cribs. She is also an entrepreneur,... |
$16,405 |
9th | Janis Numan | $10,940 |
Event 27: $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha
June 28, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 134
- Number of Rebuys: 229
- Total Prize Pool: $1,765,568
- Number of Payouts: 9
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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... |
$635,603 |
2nd | Robert Williamson III Robert Williamson III Robert Williamson III is an American poker player from Dallas, Texas.Williamson grew up with three sisters and his best friend, Chris Caywood in Granbury, Texas and received B.B.A. degrees in finance and real estate from Angelo State University in San Angelo.He began playing aged 10 or 11, after... |
$353,115 |
3rd | Davood Mehrmand | $194,210 |
4th | 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... |
$141,245 |
5th | 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.... |
$123,590 |
6th | Sigi Stockinger | $105,935 |
7th | Eddy Scharf Eddy Scharf Eduard "Eddy" Scharf is a German professional poker player best known for winning two World Series of Poker bracelets.... |
$88,280 |
8th | Phil Hellmuth 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... |
$70,625 |
9th | E.C. Cohen | $52,965 |
Event 28: $5,000 Limit Hold'em
June 29, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 269
- Total Prize Pool: $1,264,300
- Number of Payouts: 27
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Dan Schmiech | $404,585 |
2nd | Gabe Kaplan Gabe Kaplan Gabriel W. "Gabe" Kaplan is an American comedian, actor, poker commentator, and professional poker player.He was born in Brooklyn, New York... |
$222,515 |
3rd | James Kwon | $113,785 |
4th | 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... |
$88,500 |
5th | Joe Sebok Joe Sebok Joe Sebok is a professional poker player from San Francisco, California. His stepfather, Barry Greenstein, is also a professional poker player. He is known as "The Cub" because he calls Greenstein "Bear." Beginning professional play in 2005, as of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed... |
$75,860 |
6th | Luke Neely | $63,215 |
7th | Jeff Shulman Jeff Shulman Jeff Shulman is the editor of Card Player Magazine, and an American poker player with a record of success in tournament play, based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the son of Jan Shulman and Barry Shulman... |
$50,570 |
8th | Young Phan | $37,930 |
9th | Greg Mueller Greg Mueller Greg Mueller is a professional poker player from Vancouver, British ColumbiaMueller, a former professional hockey player, was drawn to poker after one of many long road trips during his hockey career... |
$25,285 |
Event 29: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em
June 30, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 1,072
- Total Prize Pool: $1,972,480
- Number of Payouts: 100
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Lawrence Gosney | $483,195 |
2nd | Jarl Lindholt | $258,000 |
3rd | Hyung Ko | $157,800 |
4th | Dustin Woolf | $138,075 |
5th | J.C. Tran | $118,350 |
6th | Tony Rila | $98,625 |
7th | Alan Purdy | $78,900 |
8th | Carlo Citrone Carlo Citrone "Diamond" Carlo Citrone is a British professional poker player and commentator, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.-Early years:Citrone was raised in Whitley Bay by his father John Citrone, a fifteen-time world bodybuilding champion and supplier of sports nutrition and gym equipment products.Whilst still... |
$59,175 |
9th | Bjorn Isberg | $39,450 |
Event 30: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em Short Handed
June 30, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 301
- Total Prize Pool: $1,414,700
- Number of Payouts: 48
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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... |
$367,800 |
2nd | Minh Ly Minh Ly Minh Hoang Ly is a Vietnamese-American professional poker player based in Temple City, California. He is a regular in "The Big Game" and is married to Lu Binh.... |
$203,715 |
3rd | 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... |
$106,105 |
4th | 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... |
$99,030 |
5th | Ayaz Mahmood | $82,055 |
6th | 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... |
$67,905 |
Event 31: $1,500 Razz
June 30, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 291
- Total Prize Pool: $401,580
- Number of Payouts: 24
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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:... |
$125,690 |
2nd | 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... |
$70,275 |
3rd | Al Barbieri | $42,165 |
4th | Archie Karas Archie Karas Archie Karas is a Greek-American gambler, high roller, poker player, and pool shark famous for the largest and longest documented winning streak in gambling history simply known as The Run when he turned $50 in December 1992 into over $40 million by the beginning of 1995, only to lose it all later... |
$30,120 |
5th | Mike Wattel | $24,900 |
6th | Mick Wernick | $19,675 |
7th | Larry Cesareo | $15,660 |
8th | Hassan Kamoei | $11,245 |
Event 32: $5,000 Omaha Hi/Lo 8/OB
July 2, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 224
- Total Prize Pool: $1,052,800
- Number of Payouts: 18
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | David Chiu David Chiu (poker player) David Chiu is a Chinese American professional poker player, based in Rowland Heights, California, who has won four World Series of Poker bracelets. He is also the winner of the 2008 World Poker Tour's WPT World Championship, and the first winner of the Tournament of Champions of Poker.Chiu was a... |
$347,410 |
2nd | Russ Salzer | $191,610 |
3rd | Haim Kakoun | $105,280 |
4th | Danny Horowitz | $84,225 |
5th | Stephen Ladowsky | $63,170 |
6th | Hiroshi Shimamura | $52,640 |
7th | 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... |
$42,110 |
8th | Patrick Bueno | $31,585 |
9th | Daniel Shak | $21,055 |
Event 33: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em
July 3, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 1,010
- Total Prize Pool: $2,787,600
- Number of Payouts: 100
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Andre Boyer Andre Boyer (poker player) Andre Boyer is a French-Canadian poker player from Acton Vale in Quebec, Canada, who has won a World Series of Poker bracelet.Boyer first cashed in the World Series of Poker in 1996, and also made the $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event final table that year. He finished in 6th place, winning... |
$682,810 |
2nd | Matthew Glantz | $364,620 |
3rd | Jerry Young | $223,010 |
4th | Dennis Perry | $195,130 |
5th | Michael Carroll | $167,255 |
6th | Robert Betts | $139,380 |
7th | Kenneth Blanton | $111,505 |
8th | Morten Jensen | $83,630 |
9th | John Duthie John Duthie John Duthie is a London-based English television director and creator of the European Poker Tour.-Film and television:... |
$55,750 |
Event 34: $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em
July 3, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 825
- Total Prize Pool: $750,750
- Number of Payouts: 72
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Paul McKinney Paul McKinney Paul "Cigar" McKinney is an American poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet at the age of 80.- Poker Career :... |
$202,725 |
2nd | Robert Hume | $106,230 |
3rd | Paul Fischman | $60,060 |
4th | Robert Redman | $52,555 |
5th | Charles Zeghibe | $45,045 |
6th | Louis Barkoutsis | $37,540 |
7th | Peter Vilandos Peter Vilandos Panayote "Peter" Vilandos is a Greek-American professional poker player. He was born in Greece and now resides in Houston, Texas. He has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker.... |
$30,030 |
8th | Daniel Klein | $22,525 |
9th | Carol Bollinger | $15,015 |
Event 35: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha
July 4, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 165
- Total Prize Pool: $1,551,000
- Number of Payouts: 18
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Rafi Amit Rafi Amit Rafi Amit , is an Israeli professional poker player, from Holon.Amit has won two bracelets at the World Series of Poker, the first in the 2005 Pot limit Omaha and the second in 2007 in the $1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Lowball with rebuys event.... |
$511,835 |
2nd | Vinny Vinh Vinny Vinh Quoc Al "Vinny" Vinh is an Vietnamese American professional poker player with over $2.4 Million in tournament winnings, who became well known at the 2007 World Series of Poker while playing in the $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold'em event, when he failed to return on the second day of play as the chip... |
$282,280 |
3rd | Jeff Rine | $155,100 |
4th | Derex Baxter | $124,080 |
5th | Simon Trumper Simon Trumper Simon Trumper is an English professional poker player from South Kensington, London, England. He is chiefly noted as the winner of Late Night Poker series 2 and runner-up of series 4... |
$93,060 |
6th | Todd Brunson Todd Brunson Todd Alan Brunson is an American professional poker player and the son of poker legend Doyle Brunson.Although Brunson's father Doyle is a poker player, Brunson did not learn the game when he was young. It was not until he was studying law at Texas Tech University that he learned on his own how to... |
$77,550 |
7th | Ferit Gabriellson | $62,040 |
8th | 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:... |
$46,530 |
9th | Istvan Novak | $31,020 |
Event 36: $3,000 Limit Hold'em
July 4, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 406
- Total Prize Pool: $1,120,560
- Number of Payouts: 36
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Todd Witteles | $347,385 |
2nd | Daryl Mixan | $179,290 |
3rd | Kieu Duong | $89,645 |
4th | Ralph Perry Ralph Perry (poker player) Rafael "Ralph" Perry is a professional poker player originally from Russia. He has been playing professionally since 1992.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... |
$78,440 |
5th | Matt Hawrilenko Matt Hawrilenko Matthew "Matt" Hawrilenko is a professional poker player from Boston, Massachusetts who won the 2009 World Series of Poker $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Short-Handed event earning $1,003,218 and is a Full Tilt Poker Pro.Hawrilenko is a 2004 graduate of Princeton University that worked for Susquehanna... |
$67,235 |
6th | Craig Crivello | $56,030 |
7th | Cyndy Violette Cyndy Violette Cyndy Violette is an American professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2004.-Early life:... |
$44,820 |
8th | Mike Nargi | $33,615 |
9th | Matt Matros Matt Matros Matthew "Matt" Matros is a professional poker player and author from Brooklyn, New York who has won two World Series of Poker events.... |
$22,410 |
Event 37: $5,000 Limit Hold'em
June 29, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 894
- Total Prize Pool: $2,350,020
- Number of Payouts: 81
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Jon Heneghan | $611,015 |
2nd | Paul Deng | $324,305 |
3rd | Robert Aron | $188,000 |
4th | Gary Do | $164,500 |
5th | Alex Balandin | $141,000 |
6th | Freddy Deeb Freddy Deeb Kassem Ibrahim "Freddy" Deeb is a professional poker player who emigrated from Lebanon to the United States at the age of 19.-Before poker:... |
$117,500 |
7th | Barry Greenstein Barry Greenstein Barry Greenstein is a professional poker player. He has won a number of major events, including three at the World Series of Poker and two on the World Poker Tour. Greenstein donates his profit from tournament winnings to charities, primarily Children, Incorporated, earning him the nickname "the... |
$94,000 |
8th | John Kim | $70,500 |
9th | Les Amoils | $47,000 |
Event 39: $5,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball
July 6, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 65
- Total Prize Pool: $986,860
- Number of Payouts: 7
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | 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.... |
$365,135 |
2nd | John Hennigan John Hennigan (poker player) John Hennigan is an American professional poker player from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who, in his career, has won two World Series of Poker bracelets and a World Poker Tour title.... |
$217,110 |
3rd | Dewey Tomko Dewey Tomko Duane "Dewey" Tomko is an American former kindergarten teacher turned professional poker player, based in Winter Haven, Florida.... |
$138,160 |
4th | Mark Weitzman | $108,555 |
5th | Doug Booth | $78,950 |
6th | Russ Salzer | $49,345 |
7th | Jeff Lisandro Jeff Lisandro Jeffrey Lisandro is an Australian professional poker player, now residing in Salerno, Italy. Lisandro is known by many to be a cash game specialist, but is a well-known face on the poker tournament circuit and is regarded as one of the premier Seven Card Stud players in the world... |
$29,605 |
Event 42: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event
July 15, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 5,619
- Total Prize Pool: $52,818,610
- Number of Payouts: 560
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Joseph Hachem | $7,500,000 |
2nd | Steve Dannenmann Steve Dannenmann Steven Paul "Steve" Dannenmann is a CPA from Severn, Maryland who gained attention in the poker world for his success in the 2005 World Series of Poker, finishing runner-up to Joe Hachem in the Main Event in his first attempt... |
$4,250,000 |
3rd | Tex Barch | $2,500,000 |
4th | Aaron Kanter Aaron Kanter Aaron Kanter is a professional poker player from Lodi, California.Kanter's first major success in poker came at the 2005 World Series of Poker main event, where he finished in 4th place and earned $2,000,000... |
$2,000,000 |
5th | Andrew Black | $1,750,000 |
6th | Scott Lazar | $1,500,000 |
7th | Daniel Bergsdorf | $1,300,000 |
8th | Brad Kondracki | $1,150,000 |
9th | Mike Matusow Mike Matusow Michael Matusow is an American professional poker player, residing in Henderson, Nevada. Matusow's nickname of "The Mouth" reflects his reputation for trash-talking at the poker table... |
$1,000,000 |
Event 43: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em
July 11, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 765
- Total Prize Pool: $1,146,870
- Number of Payouts: 72
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Ronald Kirk | $321,520 |
2nd | Adam White | $168,520 |
3rd | Didier Leroy | $95,725 |
4th | Alvin Horwitz | $83,365 |
5th | Joe Bartholdi | $71,445 |
6th | 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:... |
$59,545 |
7th | Magnus Betnér | $47,640 |
8th | Sherkhan Farnood Sherkhan Farnood Sherkhan Farnood was the Chairman of Kabul Bank until late 2010, which is Afghanistan's largest private financial institution with over 1 million customers. Farnood holds 28.16% of the shares in the Kabul Bank. He also owns Pamir Airways, in partnership with Khalilullah Fruzi/Frozi, Mohammed Fahim... |
$35,730 |
9th | Hasan Harajli | $23,820 |
Event 44: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em
July 12, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 971
- Total Prize Pool: $882,505
- Number of Payouts: 89
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | John Pires | $220,935 |
2nd | Eli Balas | $120,835 |
3rd | Douglas Carli | $70,690 |
4th | Mika Puro | $61,855 |
5th | John Baerlein | $53,015 |
6th | Mark Petrillo | $44,180 |
7th | Matthew Milliken | $35,345 |
8th | Haddad Gilles | $26,510 |
9th | Carson Cashman | $17,670 |
Event 45: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em
July 13, 2005- Number of buy-ins: 758
- Total Prize Pool: $697,360
- Number of Payouts: 72
Place | Name | Prize |
---|---|---|
1st | Willie Tann Willie Tann Willie "The Dice Man" Tann is an English professional poker player.Tann was born in Singapore and came to England to study law in the 1960s.Tann has numerous nicknames on the poker circuit... |
$188,355 |
2nd | Matthew Smith | $98,675 |
3rd | Thor Hansen Thor Hansen Thor Harald Hansen is a professional poker player. He was recruited by Larry Flynt to play poker for him after Hansen played against him in Las Vegas in the mid 1990s. He has two WSOP braclets, one from the 1988 WSOP in Seven-card stud, and then later in Deuce to Seven Lowball in the 2002 WSOP... |
$55,790 |
4th | Chris Short | $48,815 |
5th | Gary Haglund | $41,840 |
6th | Ravi Babber | $34,870 |
7th | Ryian Jensen | $27,895 |
8th | Bennett Cloud | $20,920 |
9th | Jacob Zalewski | $13,945 |