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Preliminary events

Event	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
$500 Casino Employee's Limit Hold'em	Carl Nessel	$40,000	Cory Pocket
$2,000 No Limit Hold'em	James Vogl	$400,000	Shawn Rice
$1,500 Seven Card Stud	Ted Forrest	$111,440	Chad Brown
$1,500 Limit Hold-em	Aaron Katz	$234,940	Richard Gardner-Brown
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Curtis Bibb	$160,000	Paul Phillips
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Minh "Pokerhost" Nguyen	$155,420	Lorne Persons
$1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em	Gerry Drehobl	$365,900	John Juanda
$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Chau Giang	$187,920	Robert Williamson III
$1,500 No Limit Hold 'Em	Scott Fischman	$300,000	"Gentle" Joe Awada
$2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Cyndy Violette	$135,900	Pete Kaufman
$2,500 Limit Hold'Em	Eli Balas	$174,440	Steve Shkolnik
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E.	Scott Fischman	$100,200	John Cover
$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em	Thomas "Thunder" Keller	$382,020	Martin "The Knife" De Knijff
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Hasan Habib	$93,060	Tommy Polk
$2,000 Limit Hold' Em	Daniel "Kid Poker" Negreanu	$169,100	Chris Hinchcliffe
$5,000 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw	Barry Greenstein	$296,200	Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
$1,500 Limit Hold 'Em Shootout	Kathy Liebert	$110,180	Kevin Song
$1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout	Phi Nguyen	$180,000	Kirill Gerasimov
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Annie Duke	$137,860	Ron Graham
$1,000 Ladies Limit Hold 'Em	Huong Doan	$58,530	Millie Shiu
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em	Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari	$58,530	Phi Nguyen
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Brett "Gank" Jungblut	$187,720	"Miami" John Cernuto
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Ted Forrest	$300,300	Susan Pritchett
$5,000 Seven Card Stud	"Gentle" Joe Awada	$221,000	"The Flying Dutchman" Marcel Luske
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Gavin Griffin	$270,420	Garry "Whacker" Bush
$1,500 Seven Card Razz	T. J. Cloutier	$90,500	Russ "Dutch" Boyd
$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw	Farzad "Freddy" Bonyadi	$86,980	Trung Ly
$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	Gary Gibbs	$136,960	Carl McKelvey
$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em	John "World" Hennigan	$325,360	An "The Boss" Tran
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em	Mike Sica	$503,160	John "Large" Kabbaj
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Ted Lawson	$500,000	Lee Watkinson
$1,500 A-5 Draw Lowball	Norm Ketchum	$84,500	Barry Greenstein
Media Charity Event	Michael Kaplin	$10,000 (charity)

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Main Event

There were 2,576 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.

Final table

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Greg "Fossilman" Raymer	$5,000,000
2nd	David Williams	$3,500,000
3rd	Josh Arieh	$2,500,000
4th	"Action" Dan Harrington	$1,500,000
5th	Glenn Hughes	$1,100,000
6th	Al Krux	$800,000
7th	Matt Dean	$675,000
8th	Mattias Andersson	$575,000
9th	Michael McClain	$470,400

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Other High Finishes

NB: This list is restricted to top 120 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
10th	"The Flying Dutchman" Marcel Luske	$373,001
17th	Gary "The Choirboy" Jones	$175,000
18th	Harry "Wise Owl" Demetriou	$147,500
26th	Chris "Jesus" Ferguson	$120,000
114th	Peter "MooreFish" Moore	$15,000

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See also

• World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions

The World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions is an invitational freeroll poker event. ...