- 2004 World Series of Poker
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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.
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Preliminary events
Number Event Winner Prize Runner-up 1 $500 Casino Employee's Limit Hold'em Carl Nessel $40,000 Cory Pocket 2 $2,000 No Limit Hold'em James Vogl $400,000 Shawn Rice 3 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Ted Forrest $111,440 Chad Brown 4 $1,500 Limit Hold-em Aaron Katz $234,940 Richard Gardner-Brown 5 $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Curtis Bibb $160,000 Paul Phillips 6 $1,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em Minh Nguyen $155,420 Lorne Persons 7 $1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em Gerry Drehobl $365,900 John Juanda 8 $2,000 Pot Limit Omaha Chau Giang $187,920 Robert Williamson III 9 $1,500 No Limit Hold 'Em Scott Fischman $300,000 Joe Awada 10 $2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Cyndy Violette $135,900 Pete Kaufman 11 $2,500 Limit Hold'Em Eli Balas $174,440 Steve Shkolnik 12 $2,000 H.O.R.S.E. Scott Fischman $100,200 John Cover 13 $5,000 No Limit Hold'Em Thomas Keller $382,020 Martin De Knijff 14 $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split Hasan Habib $93,060 Tommy Polk 15 $2,000 Limit Hold' Em Daniel Negreanu $169,100 Chris Hinchcliffe 16 $5,000 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Barry Greenstein $296,200 Chris Ferguson 17 $1,500 Limit Hold 'Em Shootout Kathy Liebert $110,180 Kevin Song 18 $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout Phi Nguyen $180,000 Kirill Gerasimov 19 $2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Annie Duke $137,860 Ron Graham 20 $1,000 Ladies Limit Hold 'Em Hung Doan $58,530 Millie Shiu 21 $2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em Antonio Esfandiari $58,530 Phi Nguyen 22 $5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split Brett Jungblut $187,720 John Cernuto 23 $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Ted Forrest $300,300 Susan Pritchett 24 $5,000 Seven Card Stud Joe Awada $221,000 Marcel Luske 25 $3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em Gavin Griffin $270,420 Garry Bush 26 $1,500 Seven Card Razz T. J. Cloutier $90,500 Dutch Boyd 27 $1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw Farzad Bonyadi $86,980 Trung Ly 28 $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Gary Gibbs $136,960 Carl McKelvey 29 $5,000 Limit Hold 'Em John Hennigan $325,360 An Tran 30 $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Mike Sica $503,160 John Kabbaj 31 $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Ted Lawson $500,000 Lee Watkinson 32 $1,500 A-5 Draw Lowball Norm Ketchum $84,500 Barry Greenstein Main Event
There were 2,576 entrants to the main event - more than three times the number of the previous year. 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 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 Other High Finishes
NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.
Place Name Prize 10th Marcel Lüske $373,000 15th Eddy Scharf $275,000 17th Gary Jones $175,000 18th Harry Demetriou $147,500 26th Chris Ferguson $120,000 See also
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