Below you’ll find all of the WSOP Main Event winners, as well as the total prize money that they took home for their efforts.
While poker doesn’t have a true world championship tournament, nearly every poker player considers the WSOP Main Event to be the world championship, so the WSOP winners below are generally considered to be the world champion for that year.
- 2006: Jamie Gold $12,000,000
- 2005: Joseph Hachem $7,500,000
- 2004: Greg Raymer $5,000,000
- 2003: Chris Moneymaker $2,500,000
- 2002: Robert Varkonyi $2,000,000
- 2001: Carlos Mortensen $1,500,000
- 2000: Chris Ferguson $1,500,000
- 1999: J. J. “Noel” Furlong $1,000,000
- 1998: Scotty Nguyen $1,000,000
- 1997: Stu Ungar $1,000,000
- 1996: Huck Seed $1,000,000
- 1995: Dan Harrington $1,000,000
- 1994: Russ Hamilton $1,000,000
- 1993: Jim Bechtel $1,000,000
- 1992: Hamid Dastmalchi $1,000,000
- 1991: Brad Daugherty $1,000,000
- 1990: Mansour Matloubi $895,000
- 1989: Phil Hellmuth $755,000
1988: Johnny Chan $700,000
- 1987: Johnny Chan $625,000
- 1986: Berry Johnston $570,000
- 1985: Bill Smith $700,000
- 1984: Jack Keller $660,000
- 1983: Tom McEvoy $580,000
- 1982: Jack Strauss $520,000
- 1981: Stu Ungar $375,000
- 1980: Stu Ungar $385,000
- 1979: Hal Fowler $270,000
- 1978: Bobby Baldwin $210,000
- 1977: Doyle Brunson $340,000
- 1976: Doyle Brunson $220,000
- 1975: Sailor Roberts $210,000
- 1974: Johnny Moss $160,000
- 1973: Puggy Pearson $130,000
- 1972: Amarillo Slim Preston $80,000
- 1971: Johnny Moss $30,000
- 1970: Johnny Moss n/a
