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2004 World Series of Poker

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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 "Pokerhost" 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 "Gentle" 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 "Thunder" Keller $382,020 Martin "The Knife" De Knijff
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Hasan Habib $93,060 Tommy Polk
$2,000 Limit Hold' Em Daniel "Kid Poker" Negreanu $169,100 Chris Hinchcliffe
$5,000 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Barry Greenstein $296,200 Chris "Jesus" 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 Huong Doan $58,530 Millie Shiu
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari $58,530 Phi Nguyen
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Brett "Gank" Jungblut $187,720 "Miami" John Cernuto
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Ted Forrest $300,300 Susan Pritchett
$5,000 Seven Card Stud "Gentle" Joe Awada $221,000 "The Flying Dutchman" Marcel Lüske
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Gavin Griffin $270,420 Garry "Whacker" Bush
$1,500 Seven Card Razz T. J. Cloutier $90,500 Russ "Dutch" Boyd
$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi $86,980 Trung Ly
$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Gary Gibbs $136,960 Carl McKelvey
$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em John "World" Hennigan $325,360 An "The Boss" Tran
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mike Sica $503,160 John "Large" 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 Kaplin $10,000 (charity)

Main Event

There were 2,576 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time. Many entrants, including the overall winner, won their seat in online poker tournaments.

Final table

Place Name Prize
1st Greg "Fossilman" Raymer $5,000,000
2nd David Williams $3,500,000
3rd Josh Arieh $2,500,000
4th "Action" 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

Other High Finishes

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

Place Name Prize
10th "The Flying Dutchman" Marcel Lüske $373,000
17th Gary "The Choirboy" Jones $175,000
18th Harry "Wise Owl" Demetriou $147,500
26th Chris "Jesus" Ferguson $120,000

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