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Phil Hellmuth

WSOP Past Main Event Winners

Year Winner / Winning Hand Prize (US$) Entrants  
1970 Johnny Moss * n/a 7  
1971 Johnny Moss 30,000 6  
1972 Thomas Preston K J 80,000 8  
1973 Walter "Puggy" Pearson A♠ 7♠ 130,000 13  
1974 Johnny Moss 160,000 16  
1975 Brian "Sailor" Roberts 9♠ 9♥ 210,000 21  
1976 Doyle Brunson 10♠ 2♠ 220,000 22  
1977 Doyle Brunson 10♠ 2♥ 340,000 34  
1978 Bobby Baldwin Q♦ Q♣ 210,000 42  
1979 Hal Fowler 7♠ 6♦ 270,000 54  
1980 Stu Ungar 5♠ 4♠ 385,000 73  
1981 Stu Ungar A♥ Q♥ 375,000 75  
1982 Jack Straus A♥ 10♠ 520,000 104  
1983 Tom McEvoy Q♦ Q♠ 540,000 108  
1984 Jack Keller 10♥ 10♠ 660,000 132  
1985 Bill Smith 3♠ 3♥ 700,000 140  
1986 Berry Johnston A♠ 10♥ 570,000 141  
1987 Johnny Chan A♠ 9♣ 625,000 152  
1988 Johnny Chan J♣ 9♣ 700,000 167  
1989 Phil Hellmuth Jr 9♠ 9♣ 755,000 178  
1990 Mansour Matloubi 6♥ 6♠ 895,000 194  
1991 Brad Daugherty K♠ J♠ 1,000,000 215  
1992 Hamid Dastmalchi 8♥ 4♣ 1,000,000 201  
1993 Jim Bechtel J♣ 6♥ 1,000,000 220  
1994 Russ Hamilton K♠ 8♥ 1,000,000 268  
1995 Dan Harrington 9♦ 8♦ 1,000,000 273  
1996 Huck Seed 9♦ 8♦ 1,000,000 295  
1997 Stu Ungar A♥ 4♣ 1,000,000 312  
1998 Scotty Nguyen J♦ 9♣ 1,000,000 350  
1999 Noel Furlong 5♣ 5♦ 1,000,000 393  
2000 Chris Ferguson A♠ 9♣ 1,500,000 512  
2001 Juan Carlos MortensonK♣ Q♣ 1,500,000 613  
2002 Robert Varkonyi Q♦ 10♠ 2,000,000 631  
2003 Chris Moneymaker 5♦ 4♠ 2,500,000 839  
2004 Greg Raymer 8♠ 8♦ 5,000,000 2,576  
2005 Joe Hachem 7♣ 3♠ 7,500,000 5,619  
2006 Jamie Gold Q♠ 9♣ 12,000,000 8,773  
2007 Jerry Yang 8♦ 8♣ 8,250,000 6,358  

The list above is a comprehensive summary of every single WSOP main event winner
in the entire history of the World Series of Poker. Scroll up in order to see how much
and how many players were competing for the top prize.

 

Top 5 WSOP 2007 Finishers

1) Jerry Yang
$8,250,000
2) Terry Lam
$4,840,981
3) Raymond Rahme
$3,048,025
4) Kassem "Freddy" Deeb
$2,355,756
5) Alexander Kravchenko
$2,120,905