WSOP Main Event Winners By Year and Winnings

The World Series of Poker Main Event began in 1970 and was an invitational tournament with just one table’s worth of players. 38 years later, the event is a freezeout. Anyone who can pay their way in either with cold, hard cash or by winning a satellite live or online can play…and thousands do.

The popularity of poker has turned the WSOP Main Event into one of the richest events in sports with the winner receiving a multi-million dollar payday and sponsorship deals that could well exceed that.

Here’s the list of WSOP Main Event winners by year (going backwards) and amount they won:

• 2008: Peter Eastgate $ 9,152,416
• 2007: Jerry Yang $8,250,000
• 2006: Jamie Gold $12,000,000
• 2005: Joseph Hachem $7,500,000
• 2004: Greg Raymer $5,000,000
• 2003: Chris Moneymaker $2,500,000
• 2002: Robert Varkonyi $2,000,000
• 2001: Carlos Mortensen $1,500,000
• 2000: Chris Ferguson $1,500,000
• 1999: J. J. "Noel" Furlong $1,000,000
• 1998: Scotty Nguyen $1,000,000
• 1997: Stu Ungar $1,000,000
• 1996: Huck Seed $1,000,000
• 1995: Dan Harrington $1,000,000
• 1994: Russ Hamilton $1,000,000
• 1993: Jim Bechtel $1,000,000
• 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi $1,000,000
• 1991: Brad Daugherty $1,000,000
• 1990: Mansour Matloubi $895,000
• 1989: Phil Hellmuth $755,000
• 1988: Johnny Chan $700,000
• 1987: Johnny Chan $625,000
• 1986: Berry Johnston $570,000
• 1985: Bill Smith $700,000
• 1984: Jack Keller $660,000
• 1983: Tom McEvoy $580,000
• 1982: Jack Strauss $520,000
• 1981: Stu Ungar $375,000
• 1980: Stu Ungar $385,000
• 1979: Hal Fowler $270,000
• 1978: Bobby Baldwin $210,000
• 1977: Doyle Brunson $340,000
• 1976: Doyle Brunson $220,000
• 1975: Sailor Roberts $210,000
• 1974: Johnny Moss $160,000
• 1973: Puggy Pearson $130,000
• 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston $80,000
• 1971: Johnny Moss $30,000
• 1970: Johnny Moss n/a

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