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Preliminary events

Event	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
$500 Casino Employee's Limit Hold'em	Travis Jonas	$40,200	Kim Jae
$2,000 Limit Hold'em	Nani Dollison	$441,440	John Pires
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Chris "Jesus" Ferguson	$164,735	Men "The Master" Nguyen
$1,500 Seven Card Stud	Adam Roberts	$146,430	Sal Dimicelli
$2,000 No Limit Hold'em	Phil Hellmuth Jr	$316,550	T. J. Cloutier
$1,500 Limit Omaha	Eddy Scharf	$83,810	Michael "Pizza" Davis
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better	Barry Shulman	$123,820	Dan Heimiller
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha	Galen Kester	$167,035	Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott
$2,000 S.H.O.E.	David "The Dragon" Pham	$140,455	Skip Wilson
$3,000 Limit Hold'em	Jim Lester	$233,490	Alex Brenes
$2,500 Seven Card Stud	Paul "The Truth" Darden	$147,440	"Captain" Tom Franklin
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Burt Boutin	$193,800	Dave "The Devilfish" Ulliott
$1,500 Razz	Berry Johnston	$83,810	Mike Wattel
$2,500 Pot Limit Omaha	Scotty Nguyen	$178,480	Jim Lester
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Rich Korbin	$159,080	Alex Papachatzakis
$1,500 Ace to Five Draw Lowball	Cliff Yamagawa	$73,915	David "Rabbi" Danheiser
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Bob Slezak	$173,625	Tony "The Animal" Ma
$5,000 Deuce to Seven Draw	Howard "The Professor" Lederer	$165,870	Kassem "Freddy" Deeb
$1,000 Seniors' Championship	Jay Heimowitz	$115,430	Garry Pollak
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Steve "Stevie Z" Zolotow	$243,335	Mike "The Man" Magee
$5,000 Seven Card Stud	Allen Cunningham	$201,760	Michael Danino
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em	Erik Seidel	$411,300	Johnny "Oriental Express" Chan
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Scotty Nguyen	$207,580	Phil Hellmuth Jr
$5,000 Limit Hold'em	Hemish Shah	$312,340	Tony D
$1,000 Ladies' Championship	Nani Dollison	$41,130	Patty Gallagher

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Main Event

There were 613 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.

Final table

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Juan Carlos "El Matador" Mortensen	$1,500,000
2nd	Dewey Tomko	$1,098,925
3rd	Stan Schrier	$699,315
4th	Phil "Tiltboy" Gordon	$399,610
5th	Phil Hellmuth Jr	$303,705
6th	Mike "The Mouth" Matusow	$239,765
7th	Henry "Nugget" Nowakowski	$179,825
8th	Steve Riehle	$119,885
9th	John Inashima	$91,190

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Other High Finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 30 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
11th	Daniel "Kid Poker" Negreanu	$63,940
23rd	Jim Bechtel	$39,960
27th	Allen Cunningham	$39,960
29th	Mike Sexton	$30,000
30th	Chris Bjorin	$30,000

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