2005 World Series of Poker

The 2005 World Series of Poker opened play on June 2, continuing through the Main Event No Limit World Championship starting on July 7. The conclusion of the Main Event on July 15 marked the close of play, and the largest prize in sports and/or television history at the time ($7,500,000) was awarded to the winner. ESPN's broadcast began July 19th with coverage of WSOP Circuit Tournaments, and coverage of the Main Event began October 11th and ended November 15th.

2005 World Series of Poker
Location	Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino and Binion's Horseshoe, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	June 2 – July 15
Champion
Joe Hachem
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The 2005 WSOP Championship Bracelet

All events were held at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino with the exception of the final 2 days of the Main Event which were held at Binion's Horseshoe.^[1] This marked the last time the Main Event final table was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

Events

There were 42 preliminary events that awarded bracelets in the 2005 WSOP. Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan both broke their tie with Johnny Moss and Phil Hellmuth to become the first players to win ten career bracelets.^[2][3]

Main article: 2005 World Series of Poker results

#	Date	Event	Entries	Winner	Prize	Runner-up	Results
1	June 2, 2005	$500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em	662	Andy Nguyen (1/1)	$83,390	Danilo Flores	Results
2	June 3, 2005	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	2,305	Allen Cunningham (1/3)	$725,405	Scott Fischman (0/2)	Results
3	June 4, 2005	$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em	1,071	Thom Werthmann (1/1)	$369,535	Layne Flack (0/5)	Results
4	June 5, 2005	$1,500 Limit Hold-em	1,049	Eric Froehlich (1/1)	$361,910	Jason Steinhorn	Results
5	June 6, 2005	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	699	Pat Poels (1/1)	$270,100	John Lukas	Results
6	June 7, 2005	$2,500 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em	548	Isaac Galazan (1/1)	$315,125	Harry Demetriou	Results
7	June 8, 2005	$1,000 No Limit Hold'Em	826	Michael Gracz (1/1)	$594,460	C. T. Law	Results
8	June 9, 2005	$1,500 Seven-Card Stud	472	Cliff Josephy (1/1)	$192,150	Kirill Gerasimov	Results
9	June 10, 2005	$2,000 No Limit Hold 'Em	1,403	Erik Seidel (1/7)	$611,795	Cyndy Violette (0/1)	Results
10	June 11, 2005	$2,000 Limit Hold'em	569	Reza Payvar (1/1)	$303,610	Toto Leonidas	Results
11	June 12, 2005	$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em	540	Edward Moncada (1/1)	$298,070	Steven Hudak	Results
12	June 13, 2005	$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha	212	Josh Arieh (1/2)	$381,600	Chris Ferguson (0/5)	Results
13	June 14, 2005	$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em	466	T. J. Cloutier (1/6)	$657,100	Steve Zoine	Results
14	June 15, 2005	$1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	595	Steve Hohn (1/1)	$156,985	Mike Wattel (0/1)	Results
15	June 15, 2005	$1,500 Limit Hold' Em Shootout	450	Mark Seif (1/1)	$181,330	William Shaw	Results
16	June 17, 2005	$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout	780	Anthony Reategui (1/1)	$269,100	Paul Kroh	Results
17	June 18, 2005	$2,500 Limit Hold 'Em	373	Quinn Do (1/1)	$265,975	Qi Chi Chang	Results
18	June 19, 2005	$2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	279	Denis Ethier (1/1)	$160,682	Chad Brown	Results
19	June 19, 2005	$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha	291	Barry Greenstein (1/2)	$128,505	Paul Vinci	Results
20	June 20, 2005	$5,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em	239	Brian Wilson (1/1)	$370,685	John Gale	Results
21	June 21, 2005	$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	359	Todd Brunson (1/1)	$255,945	Allen Kessler	Results
22	June 22, 2005	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	2,013	Mark Seif (2/2)	$611,145	Minh Nguyen (0/2)	Results
23	June 23, 2005	$5,000 Seven-Card Stud	192	Jan Vang Sørensen (1/2)	$293,275	Keith Sexton	Results
24	June 24, 2005	$2,500 No Limit Hold'em	1,056	Farzad Bonyadi (1/3)	$594,960	Lars Bonding	Results
25	June 25, 2005	$2,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em	425	Johnny Chan (1/10)	$303,025	Phil Laak	Results
26	June 26, 2005	$1,000 Ladies' No Limit Hold'em	601	Jennifer Tilly (1/1)	$158,335	Anh Le	Results
27	June 26, 2005	$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha	134	Phil Ivey (1/5)	$635,603	Robert Williamson III (0/1)	Results
28	June 27, 2005	$5,000 Limit Hold'em	269	Dan Schmiech (1/1)	$404,585	Gabe Kaplan	Results
29	June 29, 2005	$2,000 No Limit Hold 'Em	1,072	Lawrence Gosney (1/1)	$483,195	Jarl Lindholt	Results
30	June 29, 2005	$1,500 Seven-Card Razz	291	O'Neil Longson (1/3)	$125,690	Bruno Fitoussi	Results
31	June 29, 2005	$5,000 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em	301	Doyle Brunson (1/10)	$367,800	Minh Ly	Results
32	June 30, 2005	$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	224	David Chiu (1/4)	$347,410	Russell Salzer	Results
33	July 1, 2005	$3,000 No Limit Hold'em	1,010	Andre Boyer (1/1)	$682,810	Matthew Glantz	Results
34	July 2, 2005	$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em	825	Paul McKinney (1/1)	$202,725	Robert Hume	Results
35	July 2, 2005	$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha	165	Rafi Amit (1/1)	$511,835	Vinny Vinh	Results
36	July 3, 2005	$3,000 Limit Hold'em	406	Todd Witteles (1/1)	$347,385	Daryl Mixan	Results
37	July 4, 2005	$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	894	Jon Heneghan (1/1)	$611,015	Paul Deng	Results
38		$1,000 Main Event Satellite
39	July 5, 2005	$5,000 No Limit 2 to 7 Draw Lowball	65	David Grey (1/2)	$365,135	John Hennigan (0/2)	Results
40		$1,000 Main Event Satellite
41		Media/Celebrity Charity Event		Randy Boman	$10,000	Jake Witcher	Results
42	July 7, 2005	$10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em Main Event	5,619	Joe Hachem (1/1)	$7,500,000	Steve Dannenmann	Results
43	July 13, 2005	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	765	Ron Kirk (1/1)	$321,520	Adam White	Results
44	July 14, 2005	$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	971	John Pires (1/1)	$220,935	Eli Balas (0/3)	Results
45	July 15, 2005	$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	758	Willie Tann (1/1)	$188,335	Matthew Smith	Results

Main Event

There were 5,619 entrants to the main event.^[3] 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 won their seat in online poker tournaments. 2004 Main Event champion Greg Raymer finished in 25th place in his title defense.^[4]

Final table

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets*	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Aaron Kanter	10,700,000 (19.0%)	0	0	0
Tex Barch	9,330,000 (16.6%)	0	1	$4,000
Andrew Black	8,140,000 (14.5%)	0	3	$63,380
Mike Matusow	7,410,000 (13.2%)	2	14	$953,190
Steve Dannenmann	5,460,000 (9.7%)	0	0	0
Joe Hachem	5,420,000 (9.6%)	0	1	$25,850
Daniel Bergsdorf	5,270,000 (9.4%)	0	0	0
Scott Lazar	3,370,000 (6.0%)	0	1	$2,100
Brad Kondracki	1,180,000 (2.1%)	0	0	0

*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2005 Main Event.

Final table results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Joe Hachem	$7,500,000
2nd	Steve Dannenmann	$4,250,000
3rd	Tex Barch	$2,500,000
4th	Aaron Kanter	$2,000,000
5th	Andy Black	$1,750,000
6th	Scott Lazar	$1,500,000
7th	Daniel Bergsdorf	$1,300,000
8th	Brad Kondracki	$1,150,000
9th	Mike Matusow	$1,000,000

Other High Finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
11th	Shawn Sheikhan	$600,000
13th	Bernard Lee	$400,000
15th	Tiffany Williamson	$400,000
19th	Minh Ly	$304,680
20th	Phil Ivey	$304,680
22nd	Tom Vu	$304,680
25th	Greg Raymer	$304,680
31st	John Juanda	$274,090
37th	Roland Israelashvili	$235,390
46th	Lee Watkinson	$235,390
52nd	Rod Pardey Sr.	$173,880
59th	Russ Hamilton	$145,875
89th	Can Kim Hua	$91,950
93rd	Nick Cassavetes	$77,710

Performance of past champions

Name	Championship Year(s)	Day of Elimination
Doyle Brunson	1976, 1977	1
Tom McEvoy	1983	1
Johnny Chan	1987, 1988	1
Phil Hellmuth	1989	1
Jim Bechtel	1993	1
Russ Hamilton	1994	4 (59th)
Dan Harrington	1995	2
Huck Seed	1996	2
Scotty Nguyen	1998	1
Chris Ferguson	2000	1
Carlos Mortensen	2001	1
Robert Varkonyi	2002	1
Chris Moneymaker	2003	2
Greg Raymer	2004	6 (25th)

See also

• World Series of Poker Circuit events
• World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions
• 2005 World Series of Poker Results