World Series of Poker Past Champions

The World Series of Poker has been around for several decades now and each year they always have a main event. The main event for this year was just completed a few days ago and I figured it’d be a great time to look back on past World Series of Poker main event bracelet winners. The World Series of Poker circuit has became a very large circuit with plenty of tournaments every year, but there is only one main event each year still and only one poker player can win the tournament. If you win the World Series of Poker main event championship then you pretty much become an instant celebrity nowadays, but it never use to be like that. In fact I can guarantee that most of you will have never even heard of some of these players. Anyways lets know get down to business and take a look at the past winners of the main event.

1970 – Johnny Moss

1971 – Johnny Moss

1972 – Amarillo Slim Preston

1973 – Puggy Pearson

1974 – Johnny Moss

1975 – Sailor Roberts

1976 – Doyle Brunson

1977 – Doyle Brunson

1978 – Bobby Baldwin

1979 – Hal Fowler

1980 – Stu Ungar

1981 – Stu Ungar

1982 – Jack Strauss

1983 – Tom McEvoy

1984 – Jack Keller

1985 – Bill Smith

1986 – Berry Johnston

1987 – Johnny Chan

1988 – Johnny Chan

1989 – Phil Hellmuth

1990 – Mansour Matloubi

1991 – Brad Daugherty

1992 – Hamid Dastmalchi

1993 – Jim Bechtel

1994 – Russ Hamilton

1995 – Dan Harrington

1996 – Huck Seed

1997 – Stu Ungar

1998 – Scotty Nguyen

1999 – J.J. Furlong

2000 – Chris Ferguson

2001 – Carlos Mortensen

2002 – Robert Vankonyi

2003 – Chris Moneymaker – of PokerStars.com fame

2004 – Greg Raymer

2005 – Joe Hachem

2006 – Jamie Gold

2007 – Jerry Yang – of Full Tilt Poker fame

2008 – Peter Eastgate

There is a ton of amazing poker players in this list of World Series of Poker main event champions and as you can see a few players have won multiple main event bracelets. Every single one of the players who have won one of these tournaments will be down in the poker com record book forever and most have done well in the rest of there poker careers.

The most recent winner was Peter Eastgate who represents PokerStar.com just won his bracelet less than a week ago and took home a pay check for $9.1 million. This is among the most anyone has been paid for winning a poker tournament and the only one I can think of off of my head that tops it is the 2006 WSOP main event where Jamie Gold took home $12 million.

Every poker players to dream is to become one of the players on this list and it’s definitely possible. Many of the recent winners have been no-name players who made it through satellite tournaments. With the online poker world anything is possible and you could have your name up on this list as well one day if you ever win a World Series of Poker main event bracelet. Everyone can buy into this tournament each year if they want the only thing is it will cost you $10,000 for the seat plus travel and accommodations.