2004 WORLD SERIES OF POKER

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.

Contents

Preliminary events

Main Event

Final table

Other High Finishes

Trivia

See also

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 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	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 Keller	$382,020	Martin De Knijff
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Hasan Habib	$93,060	Tommy Polk
$2,000 Limit Hold' Em	Daniel Negreanu	$169,100	Chris Hinchcliffe
$5,000 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw	Barry Greenstein	$296,200	Chris 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	Crystal Doan	$58,530	Millie Shiu
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em	Antonio Esfandiari	$58,530	Phi Nguyen
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Brett Jungblut	$187,720	John Cernuto
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Ted Forrest	$300,300	Susan Pritchett
$5,000 Seven Card Stud	Joe Awada	$221,000	Marcel Lüske
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Gavin Griffin	$270,420	Garry Bush
$1,500 Seven Card Razz	T. J. Cloutier	$90,500	Russ Boyd
$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw	Farzad Bonyadi	$86,980	Trung Ly
$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	Gary Gibbs	$136,960	Carl McKelvey
$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em	John Hennigan	$325,360	An Tran
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em	Mike Sica	$503,160	John 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 Kaplan	$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 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
17th	Gary Jones	$175,000
18th	Harry Demetriou	$147,500
26th	Chris Ferguson	$120,000

Trivia

There was also an installation of the unconventional form of poker known as "Blind Man's Bluff" where players know everyone elses hole cards except their own. Poker personality Phil Gordon was the first one out-he called all in with 5-6 unsuited.

See also

★ World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions