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 Johnny Moss Entered hall of Fame: 1979
Born: 1907 - Died 1995
It is only Moss and Stu Ungar who won the WSOP three times (the years he has won are: 1970, 1971.1974). Moss was also the very first WSOP winner, and he was also the first in an exclusive group to win the WSOP two years in a row.
 Felton "Corky" McCorquodale Entered hall of Fame: 1979
Corky is recognized as being the person who introduced Texas hold 'em to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1963.
 Sid Wyman Entered
hall of Fame 1979
Wyman was a highly skilled poker player, regarded as one of the best in the world in his day. His favorite game was Texas hold 'em.
Edmond Hoyle Entered
hall of Fame 1979
Born:1672-Died 1769
 Bill Boyd Entered
hall of Fame 1981
Born: 1906 - Died 1997
Boyd was a five-card stud player, he won all four of his World Series of Poker bracelets in five-card stud. Boyd and Doyle Brunson are the only players in the history of the WSOP to have won bracelets in four consecutive years.
 Joe Bernstein Entered hall of Fame 1983.
Joe Bernstein was a poker player and road gambler known for being a dapper dresser.
 Red Hodges Entered hall of fame 1985
Hodges was a poker player who is considered to be one of the best seven-card stud players ever.
Puggy Pearson Entered
hall of fame 1987
Born:1929-Died 2006
Pearson originated the idea of a freezeout tournament and shared his idea with fellow gambler "Nick the Greek" Dandolos. Dandalos later brought the idea to legendary casino owner Benny Binion, who in turn founded the World Series of Poker.
Pearson won the 1973 World Series of Poker (WSOP) main event when his A♠ 7♠ defeated Johnny Moss's K♥ J♠. He has a total of 4 WSOP bracelets (two of which were in seven-card stud, which was considered his best game.)
 Jack Straus Entered
hall of fame 1988
 Benny Binion Entered hall of fame 1990
Born: 1904 - Died 1989
Binion invited six high-rollers he knew to play in a tournament in 1970. They would compete for cash at the table, after which they would vote on a winner. Johnny Moss, then 63, was voted champion by his younger competition and received a small trophy. The next year, a freeze-out format with a $10,000 buy-in was introduced, and the World Series of Poker was born.
 Amarillo Slim Entered hall of fame 1992
Born:December 31, 1928 Amarillo Slim, is a professional gambler, famous for his poker skills and proposition bets. He won the main event at the 1972 World Series of Poker.
Julius Popwell Entered
hall of fame 1996
Born: 1913-Died 1966
Popwell was a born gambler, travelling the country in search of a game. And the game he specialised in was 5-Card Stud, playing in the company of other rounders like Johnny Moss and Henry Green.
Stu Ungar Entered
hall of fame 2001
Born:1953-Died1998
Stuart Errol Ungar was a professional poker and gin rummy player, widely considered to have been the greatest Texas hold 'em and gin rummy player of all time. He is one of only two people to have won the World Series of Poker Main Event three times (Johnny Moss also has three WSOP titles but his first was obtained by a vote of the players, not by winning a tournament). He is also the only person to win Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker three times, the world's second most prestigious poker title during its time. Read more Wikipedia
 Johnny Chan Entered hall of fame 2002
Born: 1957
He shot to fame in the late 1980s, winning the championship event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in two consecutive years (1987 and 1988). He almost won a third consecutive title, but finished in 2nd place in 1989 to Phil Hellmuth. In 2005, Chan became the first player to win ten World Series of Poker titles, defeating Phil Laak in a Texas hold 'em event. He is currently tied with Doyle Brunson for second place with 10 World Series of Poker bracelets, behind Phil Hellmuth.
In 2008, Chan cashed for the first time in the main event since 1992, earning $32,166 for his 329th place finish.
 B. Johnston Entered
hall of fame 2004
Berry Johnston is a true poker veteran and regarded as one of the game's top players.
 Crandell-Addington Entered
hall-of-fame 2005
Born: 1938
Addington made the final table of the WSOP Main Event almost every year from 1972 to 1979, and still holds the record for most final table appearances (seven). He finished second on two occasions, losing to Johnny Moss in 1974 and Bobby Baldwin in 1978.
 Billy Baxter Entered
hall of fame 2006
Born: 1940
Baxter has won seven World Series of Poker bracelets. As of 2009, he ranks alongside Phil Ivey (Also 7) and just behind Erik Seidel (8), Johnny Moss (9), Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson (10 each) and Phil Hellmuth (11). All of Baxter's bracelets are in lowball games. Additionally he staked Stu Ungar from 1990 until his death in 1998.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $2,100,000. His 28 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,044,641 of those winnings.
 Phil-Hellmuth Entered
hall of fame 2007
Born: 1964
He is best known for holding a record 11 World Series of Poker bracelets, for winning the Main Event of the 1989 World Series of Poker and for his temperamental, "poker brat" personality.
 Henry-Orenstein Entered-hall-of-fame 2008
He won the $5,000 Seven-card stud tournament at the 1996 World Series of Poker (WSOP), earning $130,000 by beating fourth-place T. J. Cloutier, third-place Cyndy Violette, and runner-up Humberto Brenes. He twice had finished in the money in the $10,000 WSOP no limit Texas hold 'em main event: 12th in 1993 and 8th in 1995.
He came in 7th in the $2,500 Seven Card Stud event at the 2005 United States Poker Championship, and despite being the oldest competitor (at age 80), won his first round of NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship against one of the best cash-game players in the world, Chip Reese. Orenstein would lose in the second round to John Hennigan.
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 Nick the Greek Dandolos Entered
hall of Fame: 1979
Born: 1883 - Died 1966
Nick the Greek and Johnny Moss were the first two players inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame.
Nick won and lost more money than any gambler in history.
Red Winn Entered hall of Fame 1979
Red Winn was an all-around poker player.
Wild Bill Hickok Entered hall of Fame 1979
Born: 1837 - Died 1876
At the time of his death, Hickok was holding a pair of black aces and a pair of eights, and this became known as "A Dead Man's Hand".
 T. "Blondie" Forbes Entered hall of Fame 1980
Forbes was a poker player and road gambler
 Tom Abdo Entered
hall of Fame 1982
He died after suffering a heart attack while playing
 Murph Harrold Entered Hall of Fame in 1984
Murph Harrold was a poker player who was regarded as the best deuce-to-seven draw (Kansas City lowball) players ever.
 Henry Green Entered hall of fame 1986
He was a road gambler and poker player from Alabama
 Doyle Brunson Entered
hall of fame 1988
Born: 1933
Brunson has the honor of having two Texas hold'em hands named after him. One hand, a ten and a two of any suit, bears his name as he won the No Limit Hold 'Em event at the World Series of Poker two years in a row with them (1976 and 1977), in both cases completing a full house. In both 1976 and 1977, he was an underdog in the final hand, requiring Brunson to come from behind both times. Another hand known as a "Doyle Brunson," especially in Texas, is the ace and queen of any suit because, as he says on page 519 of the Super/System, he "never plays this hand." He changes his wording in SuperSystem2, however, noting that he "tries to never play this hand." However, it has been seen on episodes of High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, the Professional Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour that he does play it.
Fred Ferris Entered
hall of fame 1989
Ferris was a professional poker player who won a World Series of Poker bracelet in deuce-to-seven draw.
Ferris won his bracelet at the 1980 World Series of Poker, winning $150,000. He defeated some of the best professional poker players of that time to win the tournament, including two time world champion Doyle Brunson who finished the tournament in second place, and 1978 world champion Bobby Baldwin who finished in third place.
Ferris was mainly a cash game player, but also had tournament winnings exceeding $169,000.
On April 22, 1983, Ferris gained notoriety as the Internal Revenue Service seized $46,000 during a high stakes game at the Horseshoe Casino.
Ferris died in March 1989
 David Chip Reese Entered hall of fame 1991
Born: 1951 - Died 2007
Chip Reese is widely regarded to have been the greatest cash game poker player who ever lived.
 Jack Keller Entered
hall of fame 1993
Born: 1942 - Died 2003
He won the 1984 World Series of Poker main event, 3 WSOP bracelets and more than $1,580,000 in tournament play at the World Series of Poker during his career.[1] He also won two Super Bowl of Poker Main events when the SBOP was considered the second most prestigious tournament in the world.
Keller's total live tournament winnings exceeded $3,100,000. His 24 cashes at the WSOP accounted for $1,583,845 of his lifetime winnings
 Roger Moore Entered hall of fame 1997
Roger Moore is a professional poker player.
Moore has played at the World Series of Poker since 1974, but has never won the main event (although no limit Texas hold 'em is not his preferred game). He won his bracelet in the $5,000 Seven Card Stud event in 1994. He earned a prize of $144,000, in addition to the bracelet, for this win.
As of 2007 he has one WSOP bracelet, and career tournament earnings of over $590,000. He was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame in 1997.
 Lyle Berman Entered
hall of fame 2002
Born: 1941
Berman has won 3 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets. In 2005, Lyle Berman competed in the National Heads Up Championship. He finished in fifth place losing to eventual champion Phil Hellmuth Jr.
Although he prefers high-stakes cash games, he has as of 2009 won over $2,500,000 in live poker tournaments. His 16 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,446,317 of those winnings.
 Bobby Baldwin Entered hall of fame 2003
Born: 1950
When Baldwin won the 1978 World Series of Poker main event he became the youngest winner in its history, to be superseded by Stu Ungar in 1980 and then Phil Hellmuth in 1989 and Peter Eastgate in 2008. His major wins include four WSOP bracelets, all won from 1977 to 1979.
 Jack Binion Entered
hall of fame 2005
Born: 1937
Jack is the son of casino magnate Benny Binion
 T. J. Cloutier Entered
hall of fame 2006
Born: 1939
Cloutier specializes in playing tournament poker, especially No Limit and Pot Limit Hold'em. He is the only person in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to have won events in three types of Omaha played at the World Series — Pot Limit High, Limit High, and Limit 8-or-Better High-low split.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $9,700,000. $4,324,186 of his tournament winnings have come at the WSOP.
 Barbara Enright Entered hall of fame 2007
She is best known as the only woman to have reached the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 no limit hold'em main event. She achieved this in 1995, finishing in 5th place after her pocket eights were outdrawn by a suited 6-3.
She also finished in the money in the 2005 main event, having qualified through a $10 online satellite.
Barbara was the first woman to win two WSOP Bracelets, the first woman to win three bracelets and the first woman to win an open event at the World Series of Poker.
As of 2008, her total live tournament winnings exceed $1,275,000. Her 12 cashes at the WSOP account for $393,918 of those winnings.
 Duane "Dewey" Tomko Entered hall of fame 2008
Tomko has played every WSOP Main Event since 1974 which is currently the longest active streak.
As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $4,900,000. Just over half of his tournament winnings, $2,637,620, have come at the WSOP.
 Mike Sexton
Entered
hall of fame 2009
As of 2009, Sexton has won several tournaments, including one World Series of Poker bracelet, and over $3,700,000 in total tournament winnings. He won his bracelet in the $1,500 Seven card stud split event at the 1989 World Series of Poker. His 45 cashes at the WSOP account for $883,323 of his total winnings.
However, Sexton is better known for his promotion of various poker events and services. He is the main host of the World Poker Tour and spokesman for PartyPoker.com. |
