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2005 World Series of Poker

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Complete World Series of Poker Champions List

Preliminary events

Event Winner Prize Runner-up
$500 Casino Employee's No Limit Hold'em Andy Nguyen $83,390 Danilo Flores
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Allen Cunningham $725,405 Scott Fischman
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em Thom Werthmann $369,535 Layne "Back to Back" Flack
$1,500 Limit Hold-em Eric Froehlich $361,910 Jason Steinhorn
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Patrick Poels $270,100 John Lukas
$2,500 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em Isaac "The General" Galazan $315,125 Harry "Wise Owl" Demetriou
$1,000 No Limit Hold'Em Maciek Gracz $594,460 C. T. Law
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud Cliff "Johnny Bax" Josephy $192,150 Kirill Gerasimov
$2,000 No Limit Hold 'Em Erik Seidel $611,795 Cyndy Violette
$2,000 Limit Hold'em Reza Payvar $303,610 Toto Leonidas
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Edward "Bolivia" Moncada $298,070 Steven Hudak
$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha Josh Arieh $381,600 Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em T. J. Cloutier $657,100 Steve Zoine
$1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Steve Hohn $156,985 Mike Wattel
$1,500 Limit Hold' Em Shootout Mark Seif $181,330 William Shaw
$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout Anthony Reategui $269,100 Paul Kroh
$2,500 Limit Hold 'Em Quinn Do $265,975 Qi Chi Chang
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Barry Greenstein $128,505 Paul Vinci
$2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Denis Ethier $160,682 Chad Brown
$5,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em Brian Wilson $370,685 John Gale
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Todd "Darkhorse" Brunson $255,945 Allen Kessler
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Mark Seif $611,145 Minh "Pokerhost" Nguyen
$5,000 Seven-Card Stud Jan Sorensen $293,275 Keith Sexton
$2,500 No Limit Hold'em Farzad "Freddie" Bonyadi $594,960 Lars Bonding
$2,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em Johnny "Oriental Express" Chan $303,025 Phil "Unabomber" Laak
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Phil Ivey $635,603 Robert Williamson III
$1,000 Ladies' No Limit Hold'em Jennifer Tilly $158,335 Anh Le
$5,000 Limit Hold'em Dan Schmiech $404,585 Gabe Kaplan
$2,000 No Limit Hold 'Em Lawrence Gosney $483,195 Jarl Lindholt
$1,500 Seven-Card Razz O'Neil Longson $125,690 "King" Bruno Fitoussi
$5,000 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson $367,800 Minh Ly
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split David Chiu $347,410 Russell Salzer
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em Andre Boyer $682,810 Matthew Glantz
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em Paul McKinney $202,725 Robert Hume
$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Rafi Amit $511,835 Vinny Vinh
$3,000 Limit Hold'em Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles $347,385 Daryl Mixan
$1,000 No Limit Hold'em Jiang Chen $611,015 Paul Deng
$5,000 No Limit 2 to 7 Draw Lowball David Grey $365,135 John "World" Hennigan
Media/Celebrity Charity Event Randy Boman $10,000 Jake Witcher
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em Ron Kirk $321,520 Adam White
$1,000 No Limit Hold'em John Pires $220,935 Eli Balas
$1,000 No Limit Hold'em Willie "The Dice Man" Tann $188,335 Matthew Smith

Main Event

There were 5,619 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 won their seat in online poker tournaments.

Final table

Place Name Prize
1st Joseph Hachem $7,500,000
2nd Steve Dannenmann $4,250,000
3rd John "Tex" Barch $2,500,000
4th Aaron "A.K." Kanter $2,000,000
5th Andrew Black $1,750,000
6th Scott "Magic" Lazar $1,500,000
7th Daniel Bergsdorf $1,300,000
8th Brad Kondracki $1,150,000
9th Mike "The Mouth" Matusow $1,000,000

Other Notable Finishers:

Place Name Prize
11th "The Iron Sheik" Shahram Sheikhan $600,000
15th Tiffany Williamson $400,000
19th Minh Ly $304,680
20th Phil Ivey $304,680
25th Greg "Fossilman" Raymer $304,680

Complete World Series of Poker Champions List

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