History of WSOP Winners and their hole cards

**Debel** · by **Debel** on Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:51 am

I ran across this chart in the Wikipedia. I found it interesting and wanted to share it with you all.

YearWinner / Winning HandPrize (US$)EntrantsRunner-Up / Losing Hand

1970	Johnny Moss ^*	n/a	7	n/a
1971	Johnny Moss	30,000	6	Walter "Puggy" Pearson
1972	Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston K J	80,000	8	Walter "Puggy" Pearson 6 6
1973	Walter "Puggy" Pearson A♠ 7♠	130,000	13	Johnny Moss K♥ J♠
1974	Johnny Moss 3♥ 3♠	160,000	16	Crandall Addington A♣ 2♣
1975	Brian "Sailor" Roberts 9♠ 9♥	210,000	21	Bob Hooks A♣ K♦
1976	Doyle Brunson 10♠ 2♠	220,000	22	Jesse Alto A♠ J♦
1977	Doyle Brunson 10♠ 2♥	340,000	34	Gary Berland 8♥ 5♣
1978	Bobby Baldwin Q♦ Q♣	210,000	42	Crandall Addington 9♦ 9♣
1979	Hal Fowler 7♠ 6♦	270,000	54	Bobby Hoff A♣ A♥
1980	Stu Ungar 5♠ 4♠	385,000	73	Doyle Brunson A♥ 7♠
1981	Stu Ungar A♥ Q♥	375,000	75	Perry Green 10♣ 9♦
1982	Jack Straus A♥ 10♠	520,000	104	Dewey Tomko A♦ 4♦
1983	Tom McEvoy Q♦ Q♠	540,000	108	Rod Peate K♦ J♦
1984	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Keller_(poker_player)]Jack Keller[/url] 10♥ 10♠	660,000	132	Byron Wolford 6♥ 4♥
1985	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Smith_(poker_player)]Bill Smith[/url] 3♠ 3♥	700,000	140	T. J. Cloutier A♦ 3♣
1986	Berry Johnston A♠ 10♥	570,000	141	Mike Harthcock A♦ 8♦
1987	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Chan_(poker_player)]Johnny Chan[/url] A♠ 9♣	625,000	152	Frank Henderson 4♦ 4♣
1988	Johnny Chan J♣ 9♣	700,000	167	Erik Seidel Q♣ 7♥
1989	Phil Hellmuth Jr 9♠ 9♣	755,000	178	Johnny Chan A♠ 7♠
1990	Mansour Matloubi 6♥ 6♠	895,000	194	Hans Lund 4♦ 4♣
1991	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Daugherty_(poker_player)]Brad Daugherty[/url] K♠ J♠	1,000,000	215	Don Holt 7♥ 3♥
1992	Hamid Dastmalchi 8♥ 4♣	1,000,000	201	Tom Jacobs J♦ 7♠
1993	Jim Bechtel J♣ 6♥	1,000,000	220	Glenn Cozen 7♠ 4♦
1994	Russ Hamilton K♠ 8♥	1,000,000	268	Hugh Vincent 8♣ 5♥
1995	Dan Harrington 9♦ 8♦	1,000,000	273	Howard Goldfarb A♥ 7♣
1996	Huck Seed 9♦ 8♦	1,000,000	295	Bruce Van Horn K♣ 8♣
1997	Stu Ungar A♥ 4♣	1,000,000	312	John Strzemp A♠ 8♣
1998	Scotty Nguyen J♦ 9♣	1,000,000	350	Kevin McBride Q♥ 10♥
1999	Noel Furlong 5♣ 5♦	1,000,000	393	Alan Goehring 6♥ 6♣
2000	Chris Ferguson A♠ 9♣	1,500,000	512	T. J. Cloutier A♦ Q♣
2001	Juan Carlos Mortensen K♣ Q♣	1,500,000	613	Dewey Tomko A♠ A♥
2002	Robert Varkonyi Q♦ 10♠	2,000,000	631	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Gardner_(poker_player)]Julian Gardner[/url] J♣ 8♣
2003	Chris Moneymaker 5♦ 4♠	2,500,000	839	Sam Farha J♥ 10♦
2004	Greg Raymer 8♠ 8♦	5,000,000	2,576	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Williams_(card_player)]David Williams[/url] A♥ 4♠
2005	Joe Hachem 7♣ 3♠	7,500,000	5,619	Steve Dannenmann A♦ 3♣
2006	Jamie Gold Q♠ 9♣	12,000,000	8,773	Paul Wasicka 10♥ 10♠
2007	[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Yang_(poker_player)]Jerry Yang[/url] 8♦ 8♣	8,250,000	6,358	Tuan Lam A♦ Q♦
2008		9,119,517	6,844

**ryodejaneiro** · by **ryodejaneiro** on Sat Oct 18, 2008 10:23 am

Looking at the list of winners, its interesting to see so many good players as runner up too - so many "what ifs" like T.J. Cloutier being runner up twice. Astounding increase in number of entrants beginning with 2004 too.

A bit of a weird observation perhaps, but I noticed that Dolly is the only player to have won the Main Event with hole cards that included a deuce (the famous 10-2). Also, the only pocket pairs to have won 3-3 (twice), 5-5, 6-6, 8-8 (twice), 9-9, 10-10, J-J, Q-Q. So no one has won with 2-2, 4-4, 7-7, K-K, or A-A.

History of WSOP Winners and their hole cards

History of WSOP Winners and their hole cards

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