List of all World Series of Poker Main Event Winners
The WSOP Main Event has been a $10,000 buy in No Limit Texas Holdem tournament since 1972. (In 1971 the buy in was $5,000)
See the list with all WSOP main event winners since 1971 below:
Year - Winner - Winninghand - Prize (USD) - Entrants
1971 - Johnny Moss - unknown - 30,000 - 6
1972 - "Amarillo Slim" Preston - K J - 80,000 - 8
1973 - Walter "Puggy" Pearson - A♠ 7♠ - 130,000 - 13
1974- Johnny Moss - 3♥ 3♠ - 160,000 - 16
1975 - Brian "Sailor" Roberts - 9♠ 9♥ - 210,000 - 21
1976 - Doyle Brunson - 10♠ 2♠ - 220,000 - 22
1977 - Doyle Brunson - 10♠ 2♥ - 340,000 - 34
1978 - Bobby Baldwin - Q♦ Q♣ - 210,000 - 42
1979 - Hal Fowler - 7♠ 6♦ - 270,000 - 54
1980 - Stu Ungar - 5♠ 4♠ - 385,000 - 73
1981 - Stu Ungar - A♥ Q♥ - 375,000 - 75
1982 - Jack Straus - A♥ 10♠ - 520,000 - 104
1983 - Tom McEvoy - Q♦ Q♠ - 540,000 - 108
1984 - Jack Keller - 10♥ 10♠ 660,000 - 132
1985 - Bill Smith - 3♠ 3♥ - 700,000 - 140
1986 - Berry Johnston - A♠ 10♥ - 570,000 - 141
1987 - Johnny Chan - A♠ 9♣ - 625,000 - 152
1988 - Johnny Chan - J♣ 9♣ - 700,000 - 167
1989 - Phil Hellmuth, Jr. - 9♠ 9♣ - 755,000 - 178
1990 - Mansour Matloubi - 6♥ 6♠ 895,000 - 194
1991 - Brad Daugherty - K♠ J♠ - 1,000,000 - 215
1992 - Hamid Dastmalchi - 8♥ 4♣ - 1,000,000 - 201
1993 - Jim Bechtel - J♣ 6♥ 1,000,000 - 220
1994 - Russ Hamilton - K♠ 8♥ - 1,000,000 - 268
1995 - Dan Harrington - 9♦ 8♦ - 1,000,000 - 273
1996 - Huck Seed - 9♦ 8♦ - 1,000,000 - 295
1997 - Stu Ungar - A♥ 4♣ - 1,000,000 - 312
1998 - Scotty Nguyen - J♦ 9♣ - 1,000,000 - 350
1999 - Noel Furlong - 5♣ 5♦ - 1,000,000 -393
2000 - Chris Ferguson - A♠ 9♣ - 1,500,000 - 512
2001 - Juan Carlos Mortensen -K♣ Q♣ - 1,500,000 - 613
2002 - Robert Varkonyi - Q♦ 10♠ - 2,000,000 - 631
2003 - Chris Moneymaker - 5♦ 4♠ - 2,500,000 - 839
2004 - Greg Raymer - 8♠ 8♦ - 5,000,000 - 2,576
2005 - Joe Hachem - 7♣ 3♠ - 7,500,000 - 5,619
2006 - Jamie Gold - Q♠ 9♣ - 12,000,000 - 8,773
2007 - Jerry Yang - 8♦ 8♣ - 8,250,000 - 6,358
2008 - Peter Eastgate - A♦ 5♠ - 9,152,416 - 6,844
2009 - Joe Cada - 9♦ 9♣ - 8,546,435 - 6,494
2010 - ??????
