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WSOP - World Series of Poker 2003

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The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe. There were 839 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.

Here is a recap of this year’s 2003 World Series of Poker:

Day One: 839 Players started. It was announced that 63 places would be in the money. Day Two: 389 Players returned. Day Three: 111 players started and 45 finished. Day Four: Down to 9 players.Chris MoneyMaker from Nashville, TN leads field. Day Five: Chris Moneymaker is the new World Series of Poker Champion.He will receive $2.5 million for his win. This was the largest and longest WSOP to date. It took five days to crown the new Champion. The most amazing part of this stroy is that this is the first live tournament that Moneymaker has played in. He won his entry playing in an online poker room.

Place Name Prize
1 Chris Moneymaker (Spring Hill, TN, USA) $2,500,000
2 Sam Farha (Houston, TX, USA) $1,300,000
3 Dan Harrington (Santa Monica, CA, USA) $650,000
4 Jason Lester (Miami, FL, USA) $440,000
5 Tomer Benvenisti (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $320,000
6 Amir Vahedi (Sherman Oaks, CA, USA) $250,000
7 Young Pak (Bainbridge, WA, USA) $200,000
8 David Grey (Henderson, NV, USA) $160,000
9 David Singer (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $120,000
10 Phil Ivey (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $82,700 11 Minh Nguyen (Lake Elsinore, CA, USA) $80,000
12 Dutch Boyd (Columbia, MO, USA) $80,000
13 Freddy Deeb (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $65,000
14 Marcel Luske AKA "The Flying Dutchman" (Amsterdam, Netherlands) $65,000
15 Bruno "King" Fitoussi (Paris, France) $65,000
16 Olaf Thorsen (Sweden) $55,000
17 Bill Jones AKA "Poker Joe" (Billings, MT, USA) $55,000
18 Scotty Nguyen (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $55,000
19 Howard Lederer AKA "The Professor" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $45,000
20 Bryan Watkins AKA "The cop" (San Rafael, CA, USA) $45,000
21 Abraham Rosenkrantz (San Jose, Costa Rica) $45,000
22 Chris "The Armenian Express" Grigorian (Panorama City, CA, USA) $45,000
23 Dennis Waterman (Sedona, AZ, USA) $45,000
24 Mark Rose (Edna, TX, USA) $45,000
25 Men "The Master" Nguyen (Bell Gardens, CA, USA) $45,000
26 Casey Kastle (Ljubljana, Slovenia) $45,000
27 Phil Hellmuth Jr (Palo Alto, CA, USA) $45,000
28 Chuc Hoang (Paris, France) $35,000
29 Annand "Victor" Ramdin (Bronx, NY, USA) $35,000
30 David "C4" Plastik (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $35,000
31 Jeff Shulman (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $35,000
32 Jim Miller (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $35,000
33 Stuart Wheeler $35,000
34 Ken Lennaard (Stockholm, Sweden) $35,000
35 Robert Geers (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $35,000
36 Harry Thomas (Hamilton, OH, USA) $35,000
37 Costa Anastasyadis (Netherlands) $25,000
38 Kenna James AKA "Cowboy" (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $25,000
39 Cory Zeidman (Miami, FL, USA) $25,000
40 Tau Duong (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $25,000
41 Humberto Brenes (San Jose, CA, USA) $25,000
42 Kevin Song (Diamond Bar, CA, USA) $25,000
43 George Hardie (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $25,000
44 Ood Erland Jensen (Norway) $25,000
45 Paul Darden Jr (Hamdem, CT, USA) $25,000
46 Jules Bui (Fairfax, VA, USA) $20,000
47 Annie Duke (Los Angeles, CA, USA) $20,000
48 Timothy D Johnson (Hollis Center, ME, USA) $20,000
49 Barry Greenstein (Rancho Palo Verde, CA, USA) $20,000
50 John Inashima (Pasadena, CA, USA) $20,000
51 Matt Allen AKA "Dogger2000" (Chillicothe, OH, USA) $20,000
52 Daniel R Dumont (Orlando, FL, USA) $20,000
53 Chuck Doumitt (Jackson, TN, USA) $20,000
54 Julian Gardner (Manchester, UK) $20,000
55 David Chiu (Rowland Heights, CA, USA) $15,000
56 Jane Studley (New York, NY, USA) $15,000
57 Rory Liffey (Ireland) $15,000
58 Jonathan Kaplan (USA) $15,000
59 Tod L Reichert (Onalaska, WA, USA) $15,000
60 Brian Nadell (Las Vegas, NV, USA) $15,000
61 Bruce Atkinson AKA "Elvis Senior" (Brighton, UK) $15,000
62 Charlie Shoten AKA "Scotty Warbucks" (Glendale, CA, USA) $15,000
63 George Rechnitzer (Beverly Hills, CA, USA) $15,000

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