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 ($7,500,000) was awarded to the winner. ESPN's broadcast began July 19 with coverage of WSOP Circuit Tournaments, and coverage of the Main Event began October 11 and ended November 15. 2 June is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... ESPN (once an abbreviation for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting sports-related programming 24 hours a day. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... October 11 is the 284th day of the year (285th in leap years). ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ...

Preliminary events

Event	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
$500 Casino Employee's No Limit Hold'em	Andy Nguyen	$83,390	Danilo Flores
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Allen Cunningham	$725,405	Scott Fischman
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em	Thom Werthmann	$369,535	Layne "Back to Back" Flack
$1,500 Limit Hold-em	Eric Froehlich	$361,910	Jason Steinhorn
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Patrick Poels	$270,100	John Lukas
$2,500 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em	Isaac "The General" Galazan	$315,125	Harry "Wise Owl" Demetriou
$1,000 No Limit Hold'Em	Maciek Gracz	$594,460	C. T. Law
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud	Cliff "Johnny Bax" Josephy	$192,150	Kirill Gerasimov
$2,000 No Limit Hold 'Em	Erik Seidel	$611,795	Cyndy Violette
$2,000 Limit Hold'em	Reza Payvar	$303,610	Toto Leonidas
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Edward "Bolivia" Moncada	$298,070	Steven Hudak
$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Josh Arieh	$381,600	Chris "Jesus" Ferguson
$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em	T. J. Cloutier	$657,100	Steve Zoine
$1,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Steve Hohn	$156,985	Mike Wattel
$1,500 Limit Hold' Em Shootout	Mark Seif	$181,330	William Shaw
$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Shootout	Anthony Reategui	$269,100	Paul Kroh
$2,500 Limit Hold 'Em	Quinn Do	$265,975	Qi Chi Chang
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha	Barry Greenstein	$128,505	Paul Vinci
$2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Denis Ethier	$160,682	Chad Brown
$5,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em	Brian Wilson	$370,685	John Gale
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Todd "Darkhorse" Brunson	$255,945	Allen Kessler
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Mark Seif	$611,145	Minh "Pokerhost" Nguyen
$5,000 Seven-Card Stud	Jan Sorensen	$293,275	Keith Sexton
$2,500 No Limit Hold'em	Farzad "Freddie" Bonyadi	$594,960	Lars Bonding
$2,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Johnny "Oriental Express" Chan	$303,025	Phil "Unabomber" Laak
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Phil Ivey	$635,603	Robert Williamson III
$1,000 Ladies' No Limit Hold'em	Jennifer Tilly	$158,335	Anh Le
$5,000 Limit Hold'em	Dan Schmiech	$404,585	Gabe Kaplan
$2,000 No Limit Hold 'Em	Lawrence Gosney	$483,195	Jarl Lindholt
$1,500 Seven-Card Razz	O'Neil Longson	$125,690	"King" Bruno Fitoussi
$5,000 Short-Handed No Limit Hold'em	Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson	$367,800	Minh Ly
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	David Chiu	$347,410	Russell Salzer
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em	Andre Boyer	$682,810	Matthew Glantz
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em	Paul McKinney	$202,725	Robert Hume
$10,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Rafi Amit	$511,835	Vinny Vinh
$3,000 Limit Hold'em	Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles	$347,385	Daryl Mixan
$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	Jiang Chen	$611,015	Paul Deng
$5,000 No Limit 2 to 7 Draw Lowball	David Grey	$365,135	John "World" Hennigan
Media/Celebrity Charity Event	Randy Boman	$10,000	Jake Witcher
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Ron Kirk	$321,520	Adam White
$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	John Pires	$220,935	Eli Balas
$1,000 No Limit Hold'em	Willie "The Dice Man" Tann	$188,335	Matthew Smith

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Main Event

There were 5,619 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 won their seat in online poker tournaments.

Final table

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Joseph Hachem	$7,500,000
2nd	Steve Dannenmann	$4,250,000
3rd	John "Tex" Barch	$2,500,000
4th	Aaron "A.K." Kanter	$2,000,000
5th	Andrew Black	$1,750,000
6th	Scott "Magic" Lazar	$1,500,000
7th	Daniel Bergsdorf	$1,300,000
8th	Brad Kondracki	$1,150,000
9th	Mike "The Mouth" Matusow	$1,000,000

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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	"The Iron Sheik" Shahram Sheikhan	$600,000
15th	Tiffany Williamson	$400,000
19th	Minh Ly	$304,680
20th	Phil Ivey	$304,680
25th	Greg "Fossilman" Raymer	$304,680

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Fall of World Champions

• Day 1: Jim Bechtel, Doyle "Texas Dolly" Brunson, Johnny "Oriental Express" Chan, Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Phil Hellmuth Jr, Tom McEvoy, Carlos "El Matador" Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, Robert Varkonyi
• Day 2: "Action" Dan Harrington, Chris Moneymaker, Huck Seed
• Day 3: (none)
• Day 4: Russ Hamilton
• Day 5: (none)
• Day 6: Greg "Fossilman" Raymer

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Trivia

• 5661 entrants registered for the event, although only 5619 played
• 1116 entrants qualified through PokerStars
• 13 qualifiers had their buy-in "lost in transit"
• 10 online qualifiers were not permitted to play as it emerged they were underage
• 2 online qualifiers died before the event started
• Mike Matusow was given a 40 minute penalty for four uses of an obscene word
• Tamao Sato won her entry on a Japanese game show
• Celebrity players included Shannon Elizabeth, Brad Garrett, Stephen Hendry, Oliver Hudson, Tobey Maguire, Rocco Mediate, Barry Paskin, Mimi Rogers, Shannon Sharpe, Jennifer Tilly, Wil Wheaton and James Woods
• Greg Raymer became the first defending champion to survive into Day 2 of the Main Event since 1999 champion Noel Furlong made it to Day 2 in 2000

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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. ...